Traditions, voices, and dreams : the American novel since the 1960s /
Friedman, Melvin J.
Siegel, Ben,1925-
Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,
c1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : a brief overview of the recent American novel / Melvin J. Friedman -- Baroque Catholicism in southern fiction : Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and John Kennedy Toole / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Voices interior and exterior : William Styron's narrative personae / James L.W. West III -- Simply not a mandarin : Saul Bellow as Jew and Jewish writer / Ben Siegel -- Jewish Jacobites : Henry James's presence in the fiction of Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick / Mark Krupnick -- The metamorphosis of the classics : John Barth, Philip Roth, and the European tradition / Clayton Koelb --Origins, language, and the constitution of reality : Norman Mailer's Ancient evenings / James M. Mellard -- Toward a new American mainstream : John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Writing as witnessing : the many voices of E.L. Doctorow / Susan Brienza -- Panoramic, unpredictable, and human : Joyce Carol Oates' recent novels / Linda Wagner-Martin -- Women's life-writing and the minority voice : Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Alice Walker / Suzette A. Henke -- Desperate hopes, desperate lives : depression and self-realization in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Lucy / James Nagel -- Fundamentalist views and feminist dilemmas : Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn's Many things have happened since he died and Break the heart of me / Gloria L. Cronin -- Dreams and nightmares : "high-tech paranoia" and the Jamesonian sublime, an approach to Thomas Pynchon's postmodernism / Elaine Safer -- Lingering hopes, faltering dreams : Marilynne Robinson and the politics of contemporary American fiction / Thomas Schaub.
American fiction