The political novel : re-imagining the twentieth century / Stuart A. Scheingold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheingold, Stuart A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political fiction--History and criticism.

Political fiction.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century. These fictional accounts are the work of some of the century's most celebrated novelists: Kafka, Heller, Boll, Grass, Vonnegut and others. As refracted through the literary imagination, the "terrible" 20th Century takes on new meaning

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Novels of Political Estrangement: Subversion of Agency in the Twentieth Century; 2 Anti-War Novels in the Twentieth Century: The Road to Late Modernity; 3 The Alchemy of Catastrophe: Seeking Spiritual Solace in the Ashes of the Holocaust; 4 Aftermath of Disaster: The Nazi Legacy; 5 The Contradictions of Democracy: Political Estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K.; 6 Re-imagining the Twentieth Century, Remembering the Twenty-First; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9786612822032

9781282822030

1282822039

9781441138354

1441138358

9781441178626

1441178627

OCLC:

670412149