The quest for epic in contemporary American fiction
[Book]
:John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
/ Catherine Morley
New York
: Routledge
, 2009
viii, 218 p.
;24 cm
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature
;
English
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and index
Theoretical and generic considerations -- A transnational inheritance: Joycean and American ancestry -- The bard of everyday domesticity: John Updike's song of America -- Transnational paternalisms: Philip Roth's post-pastoral American epic -- Don DeLillo's Underworld as recycled American epic
John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
Epic literature, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, American, in literature
Literature and history--History--20th century.--United States