American Fictions 1940-1980

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LITERATURE
yWEROW nCTDNS
1940-1980
_Frederick R. Karl_
"Mr. Karl, a professor of English at New York University, offers us a guided tour through the densely populated territories of the contemporary American novel. His is the longest
and most comprehensive work we have on the subject-an altogether massive undertaking The purpose of American Fictions 1940-1980 is nothing less than to provide a
critical assessment of the very large number of American novels that have made a claim, however modest, on our attention over the past 40 years and to locate these works in
relation to the events and preoccupations of our postwar cultural history It is also to trace the development of major thematic patterns in this literature from sources in Puritan theology and the views of Emerson, Thoreau and other classic writers as well as in the European Modernist tradition of joyce, Proust, Kafka and Beckett Mr Karl I is I a first-rate analytical critic of individual novels." —John W.... Tovább

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LITERATURE
yWEROW nCTDNS
1940-1980
_Frederick R. Karl_
"Mr. Karl, a professor of English at New York University, offers us a guided tour through the densely populated territories of the contemporary American novel. His is the longest
and most comprehensive work we have on the subject-an altogether massive undertaking The purpose of American Fictions 1940-1980 is nothing less than to provide a
critical assessment of the very large number of American novels that have made a claim, however modest, on our attention over the past 40 years and to locate these works in
relation to the events and preoccupations of our postwar cultural history It is also to trace the development of major thematic patterns in this literature from sources in Puritan theology and the views of Emerson, Thoreau and other classic writers as well as in the European Modernist tradition of joyce, Proust, Kafka and Beckett Mr Karl I is I a first-rate analytical critic of individual novels." —John W. Aldridge, Tfie New York Times Book Review
"The most important quality of (this] massive, learned review of contemporary American fiction |isl the rare clarity, seriousness, suppleness, resonance and passion of its criticism." —Ronald Gottesman, Los Angeles Times
"The real value of this prodigious, ambitious book: it wrestles quite successfully with material many have thought intractable, and it stimulates readers' interest in a literature that offers us, however obliquely and imperfectly an imaginative reflection of our recent history" —Bruce Allen, Saturday Review
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