This astute guide to the literary achievements of Americannovelists in the twentieth century places their work in itshistorical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novelsbased on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrativeform.
Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and earlytwenty-first century American literary historyProvides analyses of numerous core texts including The GreatGatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot49 and FreedomRelates these individual novels to the broader artisticmovements of modernism and postmodernismExplains and applies key principles of rhetorical readingIncludes numerous cross-novel comparisons andcontrasts