Inventing Orders
Subtitle: An Essay and Critique in 20th Century American Literature (1950-2000)
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: January 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780761826859
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: Part One
title: Inventing Orders; label: Chapter 1
title: In Defense of Time
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: Critical Point of View: Realism or Modernism?
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter 3
title: Existential Realism
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter 4
title: Radical Realism
pagenum: 21; label: Chapter 5
title: Postmodern Realism
pagenum: 33; label: Part Two
title: Defending Orders; label: I
title: Existential Realism; label: Chapter 6
title: Dangling Man (1944)
pagenum: 45; label: Chapter 7
title: Invisible Man (1947)
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter 8
title: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
pagenum: 51; label: Chapter 9
title: The Natural (1952)
pagenum: 55; label: Chapter 10
title: The Adventures of Augie March (1954)
pagenum: 59; label: Chapter 11
title: The Recognitions (1955)
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter 12
title: The Assistant (1955)
pagenum: 71; label: Chapter 13
title: Lolita (1956)
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 14
title: Henderson the Rain King (1958)
pagenum: 81; label: Chapter 15
title: The Wapshot Chronicle (1954), The Wapshot Scandal (1959)
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter 16
title: Nine Stories (1953), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1955), Franny and Zooey (1961)
pagenum: 91; label: Chapter 17
title: The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
pagenum: 99; label: II
title: Radical Realism; label: Chapter 18
title: The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
pagenum: 111; label: Chapter 19
title: Catch-22 (1961)
pagenum: 119; label: Chapter 20
title: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter 21
title: V (1962)
pagenum: 133; label: Chapter 22
title: Pale Fire (1962)
pagenum: 139; label: Chapter 23
title: Herzog (1964)
pagenum: 143; label: Chapter 24
title: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
pagenum: 147; label: Chapter 25
title: Giles Goat-Boy (1966), Chimera (1973)
pagenum: 149; label: Chapter 26
title: Trout Fishing in America (1967)
pagenum: 155; label: Chapter 27
title: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
pagenum: 159; label: Chapter 28
title: Ada (1969)
pagenum: 161; label: Chapter 29
title: Something Happened (1973)
pagenum: 167; label: Chapter 30
title: Gravity's Rainbow (1974)
pagenum: 171; label: Chapter 31
title: JR (1975)
pagenum: 177; label: Chapter 32
title: Humboldt's Gift (1975)
pagenum: 183; label: Chapter 33
title: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976)
pagenum: 189; label: Chapter 34
title: In Cold Blood (1965), The Armies of the Night (1969), The Right Stuff (1978)
pagenum: 193; label: Chapter 35
title: Sixty Stories (1981)
pagenum: 207; label: III
title: Postmodern Realism; label: Chapter 36
title: A River Runs Through It (1976)
pagenum: 219; label: Chapter 37
title: The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1978)
pagenum: 223; label: Chapter 38
title: The World According to Garp (1978)
pagenum: 233; label: Chapter 39
title: Bullit Park (1971), Falconer (1978), Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1981)
pagenum: 239; label: Chapter 40
title: The Color Purple (1982)
pagenum: 243; label: Chapter 41
title: The Hotel New Hampshire (1982)
pagenum: 247; label: Chapter 42
title: Final Payments (1978), A Company of Women (1982), Men and Angels (1988)
pagenum: 253; label: Chapter 43
title: Pinocchio in Venice (1991)
pagenum: 259; label: Chapter 44
title: The Stories of Raymond Carver: Will You Please Be Quiet (1977), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1984), Where I'm Calling From (1988)
pagenum: 263; label: Chapter 45
title: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1992)
pagenum: 273; label: Chapter 46
title: Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1974), Rabbit is Rich (1982), Rabbit at Rest (1992)
pagenum: 279; label: Chapter 47
title: The Counterlife (1987), Operation Shylock (1993)
pagenum: 287; label: Chapter 48
title: Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1987), Tracks (1990), The Bingo Palace (1994)
pagenum: 293; label: Chapter 49
title: Tar Baby (1985), Beloved (1988), Jazz (1992)
pagenum: 303; label: Chapter 50
title: Infinite Jest (1996)
pagenum: 311; title: Index
pagenum: 317