The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Catherine Morley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 i
Contemporary American Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: David Brauner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-20 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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This is an accessible, lucid and incisive study that will prove indispensable to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction. Featuring a wide range
The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Michael Kalisch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-20 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived
Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: Aliki Varvogli
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ lite
Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Judie Newman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization throug