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American Fiction

Richard J. Gray

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Description:This collection of essays offers a series of fresh and authoritative readings of most of the more important prose writers, and taken as a whole, a major reassessment of the American tradition in prose fiction. Each of the contributors has an enthusiastic and informed interest in the writer discussed and attempts both to characterize that writer's achievement and to offer a new perspective on his or her work. The book begins with a discussion of James Fenimore Cooper, the founding father of the American novel, and ends with an account of Norman Mailer, whose varied and adventurous writings perhaps best illustrate the conflicting forces at work in contemporary American fiction. In between there are essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Richard Wright. Attention is paid to context, the social and historical circumstances with which each writer had to engage, but the main emphasis is on the texts themselves, their language, narrative structure, the experience of reading them-and, not least, on the place they occupy in the American literary landscape (cover).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Fiction. To get started finding American Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 248

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: London : Vision Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble

Release: 1983

ISBN: PrvZAAAAMAAJ

Description: This collection of essays offers a series of fresh and authoritative readings of most of the more important prose writers, and taken as a whole, a major reassessment of the American tradition in prose fiction. Each of the contributors has an enthusiastic and informed interest in the writer discussed and attempts both to characterize that writer's achievement and to offer a new perspective on his or her work. The book begins with a discussion of James Fenimore Cooper, the founding father of the American novel, and ends with an account of Norman Mailer, whose varied and adventurous writings perhaps best illustrate the conflicting forces at work in contemporary American fiction. In between there are essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Richard Wright. Attention is paid to context, the social and historical circumstances with which each writer had to engage, but the main emphasis is on the texts themselves, their language, narrative structure, the experience of reading them-and, not least, on the place they occupy in the American literary landscape (cover).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Fiction. To get started finding American Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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