Screen LibraryThe anti-hero in the American novel From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut /
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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American literature readings in the twenty-first century |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230612525 |
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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. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 216 p. |
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9780230603233 9780230612525 : 0230612520 : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | The Rebel with a Cause? The Anti-heroic figure in American Fiction of the 1960s * Individualism and the Anti-Capitalist, Anti-heroic Figure in American Fiction of the 1960s * The Outlaw Returns: The Cowboy in American Fiction of the 1960s * Sinner or Saint? The Anti-hero as Christ Figure in the American Novel of the 1960s. |