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  1. The quest for epic in contemporary American fiction
    John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
    Author: Morley, Catherine
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations, and... more

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    This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations, and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0415961130; 9780415961134
    Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 8
    Subjects: National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and history; American fiction; Epic literature, American
    Other subjects: DeLillo, Don: Underworld; Roth, Philip: American pastoral; Updike, John: Rabbit Angstrom
    Scope: Online-Ressource (viii, 218 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Theoretical and Generic Considerations; 2 A Transnational Inheritance; 3 The Bard of Everyday Domesticity: John Updike's Song of America; 4 Transnational Paternalisms: Philip Roth's Post-Pastoral American Epic; 5 Don DeLillo's Underworld as Recycled American Epic; Conclusion: New American Vistas; Notes; Bibliography; Index