The anti-hero in the American novel from Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut
"The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s such a Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Slaughterhouse-Five to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels know for their depictions of dissident individuals opposed to the ideological mo...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ., 1. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | American literature readings in the 21st century
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s such a Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Slaughterhouse-Five to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels know for their depictions of dissident individuals opposed to the ideological mores of the establishment. Simmons explores the anti-heroic subversions of the main figures in these novels and compares them with the previous heroic conventions such as the entrepreneurial individual, the cowboy, and the Christ figure. This book moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works, and in the process reasserts the important social impetus that lies behind them."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke The rebel with a cause? the anti-heroic figure in American fiction of the 1960s -- Individualism and the anti-capitalist, anti-heroic figure in American fiction of the 1960s -- The outlaw returns: the cowboy in American fiction of the 1960s -- Sinner or saint? the anti-hero as Christ figure in the American novel of the 1960s |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 200 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780230603233 978-0-230-60323-3 9781137473257 978-1-137-47325-7 0230603238 0-230-60323-8 |