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Author:

Goodheart, Eugene.

Title:

Novel practices : classic modern fiction / Eugene Goodheart.

Publisher:

Transaction Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xv, 217 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical--Appreciation--Great Britain.
Epic poetry, Classical--Appreciation--United States.
American literature--Classical influences.
English literature--Classical influences
Epic literature--History and criticism.
Classicism--Great Britain.
Classicism--United States.
Fiction--Technique

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

"The licensed trespasser": the omniscient narrator in Middlemarch -- Joyce and the common life -- Thomas Mann's comic spirit -- The art of ambivalence: The good soldier -- What May knew in The beast in the jungle -- Leon Edel's Henry James -- Censorship and self-censorship in the fiction of D.H. Lawrence -- Lawrence and American fiction -- "Sex consciousness" and the novel: A room of one's own -- A contest of motives: T.E. Lawrence in The seven pillars of wisdom -- Character in Saul Bellow's novels -- Counterlives: Philip Roth in autobiography and fiction -- Four decades of contemporary American fiction -- Recent novels.

ISBN:

9780765802088
0765802082 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52962866

LCCN:

2003061309

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)