A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (eBook)

David Seed (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
608 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-1011-5 (ISBN)

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Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A
Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents
an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of
the First World War.

* Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British,
and European specialists in a variety of literary fields

* Written in an approachable and accessible style

* Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary
novelists

* Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end
of each essay

Autor

David Seed is Professor in the School of English at Liverpool University. He has published books on Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Science Fiction and the Cold War. He edits the Science Fiction series of Liverpool University Press and serves as a consulting editor for Science Fiction Studies. He is the editor of our Companion to Science Fiction.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1

David Seed

Part I Genres, Traditions, and Subject Areas 9

1 U.S. Modernism 11

Susan Hegeman

2 The City Novel 24

James R. Giles

3 The Western 36

Neil Campbell

4 Postmodern U.S. Fiction 48

Hans Bertens

5 Modern Gothic 60

Marilyn Michaud

6 The Short Story 72

Mark Whalan

7 Southern Fiction 84

Sharon Monteith

8 Jewish American Fiction 96

David Brauner

9 "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me": Modern African American
Fiction 109

A. Robert Lee

10 U.S. Detective Fiction 122

Cynthia S. Hamilton

11 Hard-Boiled/Noir Fiction 135

Lee Horsley

12 Chicano Fiction 147

Helen Oakley

13 Black Humor Fiction 159

David Seed

14 Fiction on the Vietnam War 171

Philip Melling and Subarno Chattarji

15 The Rediscovery of the Native American 183

Joy Porter

16 Trash Fiction 195

Stacey Olster

Part II Selected Writers 207

17 Edith Wharton 209

Pamela Knights

18 Willa Cather's Entropology: Permanence and Transmission
219

Guy J. Reynolds

19 Gertrude Stein and Seriality 229

Ulla Haselstein

20 Ernest Hemingway 240

Peter Messent

21 John Dos Passos 251

Andrew Hook and David Seed

22 Thomas Wolfe 261

Anne Ricketson Zahlan

23 F. Scott Fitzgerald 271

William Blazek

24 Zora Neale Hurston 282

Lovalerie King

25 Theodore Dreiser 292

Clare Virginia Eby

26 William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha 302

Charles A. Peek

27 H.D.'s Visionary Prose 313

Rachel Connor

28 John Steinbeck 322

Brian Railsback

29 Raymond Chandler 332

Sean McCann

30 Richard Wright 342

Tara T. Green

31 Ralph Ellison 352

Rachel Farebrother

32 James Baldwin 361

D. Quentin Miller

33 Vladimir Nabokov 369

Barbara Wyllie

34 Norman Mailer 377

Michael K. Glenday

35 William S. Burroughs 386

Davis Schneiderman

36 Saul Bellow 395

Michael Austin

37 Gore Vidal 403

Heather Neilson

38 Joseph Heller 411

David M. Craig

39 Kurt Vonnegut 420

Jerome Klinkowitz

40 Thomas Pynchon 428

Ian Copestake

41 Ishmael Reed: American Iconoclast 436

Darryl Dickson-Carr

42 Joyce Carol Oates 445

Gavin Cologne-Brookes

43 Philip Roth 454

Timothy Parrish

44 The Fiction of John Updike: Timely and Timeless 462

Brian Keener

45 Maxine Hong Kingston 471

Helena Grice

46 Toni Morrison 480

Jennifer Terry

47 Alice Walker 489

Maria Lauret

48 Don DeLillo 497

Mark Osteen

49 Gerald Vizenor: Postindian Gamester 505

A. Robert Lee

50 Bret Easton Ellis 514

James Annesley

51 Amy Tan: "American Circumstances and Chinese Character"
522

Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson

52 Paul Auster: Poet of Solitude 530

Mark Brown

53 Bharati Mukherjee 539

Judie Newman

Index 547

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th Century & Contemporary American Literature • American Literature • Amerikanische Literatur • Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke • Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke • Literatur • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft • USA /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-1011-9 / 1444310119
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-1011-5 / 9781444310115