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Author:

Roynon, Tessa, author.

Title:

The classical tradition in modern American fiction / Tessa Roynon.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 285 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1900-1999
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--Classical influences.
Art, Classical, in literature.
American fiction.
American fiction--Classical influences.
Art, Classical, in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-267) and index.

Contents:

7. Home (2008). Cather and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- My Antonia (1918) -- The Professor's House (1925) -- Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) -- 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- Fitzgerald and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- This Side of Paradise (1920) -- The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Tender Is the Night (1934) -- 3. William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Faulkner and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- Light in August (1932) -- Absalom, Absalom! (1936) -- Go Down, Moses (1942) -- 4. Ralph Ellison (1913-94) -- Ellison and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- Invisible Man (1952) -- Three Days Before the Shooting Part I (2010) -- Three Days Before the Shooting Part II: Hickman in Washington DC (2010) -- 5. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) -- Morrison and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- Song of Solomon (1977) -- Beloved (1987) -- Jazz (1992) -- 6. Philip Roth (1933-2018) -- Roth and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- American Pastoral (1997) -- I Married a Communist (1998) -- The Human Stain (2000) -- 7. Marilynne Robinson (1943-) -- Robinson and the Classics -- The Critical Field and Scholarly Debate -- Housekeeping (1980) -- Gilead (1004) -- Home (2008).

Summary:

"This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson. Making the classical world accessible to all readers, it combines new close readings of three key texts by each author with overviews of the essential prior scholarship in the field. It also builds on archival research in documenting the nature and extent of each author's own familiarity with classical literature and languages."--Publisher description.

Series:

BAAS paperbacks

ISBN:

9781474434041
1474434045
9781474434034
1474434037

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1158038871

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)