America and the Americans in postwar British fiction : an imagological study of selected novels /
Ditze, Stephan-Alexander.
Heidelberg : Winter,
c2006.
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral) -- Universität, Vechta, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-368).
A critical survey of (comparative) literary imagology -- A structuralist approach to literary imagology -- "In the barbarous regions of the world": America and the Americans in Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel The Loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy -- "You ought to be better informed": America and the Americans in Graham Greene's political novel The quiet American --  "A semi-temporary encampment for a battalion of parvenus": America and the Americans in Kingsley Amis's satirical novel One fat Englishman -- "In search of liberation and enlightenment": American and the Americans in David Lodge's comic novel Changing places: a tale of two campuses --  "'It's an emotive symbol...'": America and the Americans in J.G. Ballard's anti-utopian novel Hello America -- Conclusion: stereotypical imagenes.
English fiction
Americans in literature.