Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

<p>This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form.</p> <ul> <li>Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and early twenty-first century American literary history</li> <li>Provides analyses of numerous core texts including <i>The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49</i> and <i>Freedom</i></li> <li>Relates these individual novels to the broader artistic movements of modernism and postmodernism</li> <li>Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading</li> <li>Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons and contrasts </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p>