The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLilloRoutledge, 25. 9. 2008. - 226 страница This 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. |
Садржај
Introduction | 1 |
1 Theoretical and Generic Considerations | 13 |
2 A Transnational Inheritance | 35 |
John Updikes Song of America | 57 |
Philip Roths PostPastoral American Epic | 84 |
5 Don DeLillos Underworld as Recycled American Epic | 119 |
New American Vistas | 148 |
Notes | 159 |
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| 211 | |
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