商品簡介
This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form.Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and early twenty-first century American literary history Provides analyses of numerous core texts including "The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49" and" Freedom"Relates these individual novels to the broader artistic movements of modernism and postmodernismExplains and applies key principles of rhetorical readingIncludes numerous cross-novel comparisons and contrasts
作者簡介
James Phelan is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University, USA. His wide-ranging research in narrative theory includes influential studies of literary character, narrative progression, unreliable narration, and the ethics of reading as well as significant fresh interpretations of numerous twentieth-century American and British novels and short stories. The editor ofNarrative, the journal International Society for the Study of Narrative, Prof Phelan is also a prolific author and editor whose credits include the prize-winningLiving to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005), theBlackwell Companion to Narrative Theory (2005) and the collaboratively writtenNarrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (2012).
