The quest for epic in contemporary American fiction :John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
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New York
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Routledge
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2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 218 p. ;24 cm
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
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Epic literature, American--History and criticism.
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American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Literature and history--History--20th century.--United States