The Absurd Hero In Contemporary American Fiction
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Author | : David D. Galloway |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1981-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292703554 |
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When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and definitive study of a new trend in postwar American literature. In the years that followed, David Galloway’s analysis of the writings of John Updike, William Styron, Saul Bellow, and J. D. Salinger became a standard critical work, an indispensable tool for readers concerned with contemporary American literature. The New York Times described the book as “a seminal study of the modern literary imagination." David Galloway, himself an established novelist, later extensively revised The Absurd Hero to include authoritative discussions of more than a dozen novels which had appeared since the first revised edition was released in 1970. Among them are John Updike’s Couples, Rabbit Redux, and The Coup; William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice; and Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet and Humboldt’s Gift. Through detailed analyses of these works, Galloway demonstrates the continuing relevance of his own provocative concept of the absurd hero and provides important insights into the literary achievements of four of America’s most influential postwar novelists.
Author | : David Darryl Galloway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David D. Galloway |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292768788 |
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When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and definitive study of a new trend in postwar American literature. In the years that followed, David Galloway’s analysis of the writings of John Updike, William Styron, Saul Bellow, and J. D. Salinger became a standard critical work, an indispensable tool for readers concerned with contemporary American literature. The New York Times described the book as “a seminal study of the modern literary imagination." David Galloway, himself an established novelist, later extensively revised The Absurd Hero to include authoritative discussions of more than a dozen novels which had appeared since the first revised edition was released in 1970. Among them are John Updike’s Couples, Rabbit Redux, and The Coup; William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice; and Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet and Humboldt’s Gift. Through detailed analyses of these works, Galloway demonstrates the continuing relevance of his own provocative concept of the absurd hero and provides important insights into the literary achievements of four of America’s most influential postwar novelists.
Author | : Charles H. Harris |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1972-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780808400431 |
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Author | : S. Halldorson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230609783 |
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This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."
Author | : Catherine Morley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135899592 |
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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 it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.
Author | : Carl Darryl Malmgren |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780838750674 |
Download Fictional Space in the Modernist and Post-modernist American Novel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Fictional space is the imaginal expanse of field created by fictional discourse; a space which, through ultimately self-referential and self-validating, necessarily exists in ascertainable relation to the real world outside the text. After defining his theoretical framework the author applies it to American fiction of the twentieth century.
Author | : D. Simmons |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230612520 |
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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.
Author | : George Woodcock |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1983-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349170666 |
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Author | : Morteza Yazdanjoo |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2022-12-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000822028 |
Download Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
As an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied "intertextual dialogism" between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the former to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose’s catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds "the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts", this book contends that literary "texts" are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides an intertextual avenue to delineate the textuality of history and the historicity of texts