Novel practices : classic modern fiction / Eugene Goodheart.

Author/creator Goodheart, Eugene
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2004.
Descriptionxv, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical--Appreciation. --Great Britain.
Epic poetry, Classical--Appreciation. --United States.
American literature--Classical influences.
English literature--Classical influences.
Epic literature--History and criticism.
Classicism--Great Britain.
Classicism--United States.
Fiction--Technique.

Contents "The licensed trespasser": the omniscient narrator in Middlemarch -- Joyce and the common life -- Thomas Mann's comic spirit -- The art of ambivalence: The good soldier -- What May knew in The beast in the jungle -- Leon Edel's Henry James -- Censorship and self-censorship in the fiction of D.H. Lawrence -- Lawrence and American fiction -- "Sex consciousness" and the novel: A room of one's own -- A contest of motives: T.E. Lawrence in The seven pillars of wisdom -- Character in Saul Bellow's novels -- Counterlives: Philip Roth in autobiography and fiction -- Four decades of contemporary American fiction -- Recent novels.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2003061309
ISBN0765802082 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR888.E6 G66 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold