The Anti-Hero in the American Novel

From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-37152-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simmons, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Rebel with a Cause? The Anti-heroic figure in American Fiction of the 1960s Individualism and the Anti-Capitalist, Anti-heroic Figure in American Fiction of the 1960s The Outlaw Returns: The Cowboy in American Fiction of the 1960s Sinner or Saint? The Anti-hero as Christ Figure in the American Novel of the 1960s

Über Autor(innen)

David Simmons is Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies at the University of Northampton, UK.