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The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel
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The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel Tapa dura - 2003

de R. A. York

Información de la editorial

Studies ten American novels from the later twentieth century in the light of theories of narration and of the recent debate on the nature of fiction. After an introduction to the theoretical background, it analyzes works by Malamud, Bellow, Capote, Barth, Doctorow, Morrison, Oates, Ford, Smiley, and Kingsolver, emphasizing the complementary tendencies in American fiction to documentation of historical conditions and to the free play of the creative writer, to factual record and to self-conscious fabulation. It argues that the tension between these two tendencies expresses an acute concern with the limitations of modern life, with the writer's drive to constitute a realm of freedom, and with the challenges of reconciling the two.

Detalles

  • Título The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel
  • Autor R. A. York
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Páginas 178
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Cranbury, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Fecha de publicación 2003-08
  • ISBN 9780838639894 / 0838639895
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003005049
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.509

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