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Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction : John Updike, Philip Roth and Don Delillo by Catherine Morley (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415888514

ISBN-139780415888516

eBay Product ID (ePID)92839414

Product Key Features

Number of Pages218 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameQuest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction : John Updike, Philip Roth and Don Delillo

Publication Year2011

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Historical events, General, American / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorCatherine Morley

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length6 in

Item Width9 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

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Reviews"This intellectually sophisticated book considers three major novelists, each of whom has produced a large body of significant work that has received extensive critical attention...Recommended."-- Choice, June 2009, "This intellectually sophisticated book considers three major novelists, each of whom has produced a large body of significant work that has received extensive critical attention...Recommended." -- Choice, June 2009

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813.609

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Theoretical and Generic Considerations Chapter Two: A Transnational Inheritance: Joycean and American Ancestry Chapter Three: The Bard of Everyday Domesticity: John Updike's Song of America Chapter Four: Transnational Paternalisms: Philip Roth's Post-Pastoral American Epic Chapter Five: Don DeLillo's Underworld as Recycled American Epic Conclusion: New American Vistas Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisThis volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.