Simmons, D. (2008) The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230603233.
Item Type: | Book |
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Abstract: | 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. |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PS American literature > PS370 Prose fiction |
Creators: | Simmons, David |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing |
Date: | 1 July 2008 |
Date Type: | Publication |
Series Name: | American literature readings in the twenty-first century |
Place of Publication: | New York and London |
Number of Pages: | 216 |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 9780230603233 |
Status: | Published / Disseminated |
URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/4402 |
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