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...
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and index
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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