{"product_id":"reading-the-american-novel-1920-2010-isbn-9780631230670","title":"Reading the American Novel 1920-2010","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a valuable overview of twentieth- and early twenty-first century American literary history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides analyses of numerous core texts including \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRelates these individual novels to the broader artistic movements of modernism and postmodernism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes numerous cross-novel comparisons and contrasts \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reading the American Novel, 1920–2010 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Principles of Rhetorical Reading 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Age of Innocence (1920): Bildung and the Ethics of Desire 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Great Gatsby (1925): Character Narration, Temporal Order, and Tragedy 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Farewell to Arms (1929): Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoric of Voice 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Sound and the Fury (1929): Portrait Narrative as Tragedy 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937): Bildung and the Rhetoric and Politics of Voice 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Invisible Man (1952): Bildung, Politics, and Rhetorical Design 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Lolita (1955): The Ethics of the Telling and the Ethics of the Told 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): Mimetic Protagonist,\u003cbr\u003e Thematic–Synthetic Storyworld 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Beloved (1987): Sethe’s Choice and Morrison’s Ethical Challenge 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Freedom (2010): Realism after Postmodernism 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“It is an excellent book.”  (\u003ci\u003ePrimary Health Care\u003c\/i\u003e,1 March 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Reading the American Novelis also a rich experience, both in terms of the novels discussed and in terms of their literary-critical examination.”  (\u003ci\u003ePartial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e,13 January 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJames Phelan\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University, USA. His wide-ranging research in narrative theory includes influential studies of literary character, narrative progression, unreliable narration, and the ethics of reading as well as significant fresh interpretations of numerous twentieth-century American and British novels and short stories. The editor of \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e, the journal \u003ci\u003eInternational Society for the Study of Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, Prof Phelan is also a prolific author and editor whose credits include the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eLiving to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), the \u003ci\u003eBlackwell Companion to Narrative Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and the collaboratively written \u003ci\u003eNarrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).  \u003ci\u003eReading the Twentieth-Century American Novel, 1920-2010\u003c\/i\u003e is an instructive and insightful companion for students and scholars of American literature. It situates the American novel within the broader social, political, and artistic history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and equips its readers with key tools of rhetorical analysis that will enhance their capacities to respond to the remarkable diversity of the novel throughout this period.  James Phelan’s survey keeps its eye on the historical trajectory of the genre, even as it considers each individual novel’s responses to specific aspects of its historical moment. In addition, Phelan engages in various productive cross-novel comparisons and contrasts with regard to such matters as the uses of unreliable narration, strategies for beginning and ending, and adaptations of the Bildungsroman.  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"In these fine rhetorical readings of novels by Hurston, Faulkner, Nabokov, Morrison and others, James Phelan offers a capacious view of the development of the American novel from the twentieth century to the twenty-first.  With characteristic clarity and precision, Phelan considers the many ways in which imaginative vision and acts of reading coalesce as they reflect the experience of living in the modern world.  This is an essential contribution to the understanding of the American novel in our time.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick O’Donnell, Michigan State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989918400741,"sku":"NP9780631230670","price":89.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631230670.jpg?v=1761785905","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reading-the-american-novel-1920-2010-isbn-9780631230670","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}