Handbook of the American novel of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / edited by Timo Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Timo, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of English and American studies ; Volume 4.

Handbooks of English and American Studies, ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James's The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time "before theory." Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editors' Preface

Contents

0. Introduction / Müller, Timo

Part I. Systematic Questions

1. Modernism / Stratton, Matthew

2. Postmodernism / Berressem, Hanjo

3. Cultural Diversity / Birkle, Carmen

4. Intermediality / Balestrini, Nassim Winnie

5. Inter-American Perspectives / Raab, Josef

6. The American Novel and the Marketplace / Witters, Sean A.

7. Futures of the American Novel / Domsch, Sebastian

Part II. Close Readings

8. Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903) / Brosch, Renate

9. Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918) / Gersdorf, Catrin

10. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) / Gross, Andrew S.

11. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925) / Kley, Antje

12. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926) / Rodenberg, Hans-Peter

13. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936) / Ziegler, Heide

14. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936) / Snyder-Körber, MaryAnn

15. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) / Scheiding, Oliver

16. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) / Nehl, Markus

17. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946) / Burt, John

18. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952) / Motyl, Katharina

19. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (1952) / Schillings, Sonja

20. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) / Rohr, Susanne

21. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) / Pöhlmann, Sascha

22. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Sarkowsky, Katja

23. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984) / Priewe, Marc

24. Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) / Michael, Magali Cornier

25. Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) / Schliephake, Christopher

26. Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997) / Löffler, Philipp

27. Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) / Starre, Alexander

28. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006) / Estes, Andrew

29. Louise Erdrich, The Round House (2012) / Däwes, Birgit

Index of Subjects

Index of Names

List of Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110422429

3110422425

9783110422542

3110422549

OCLC:

979585206