The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut
by:
David Simmons (author)
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s such as Catch-22, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Slaughterhouse 5 to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an...
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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s such as Catch-22, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Slaughterhouse 5 to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that 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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780230603233 (0230603238)
Publish date: May 15th 2008
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
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