American fictions, 1940-1980 : a comprehensive history and critical evaluation, Frederick R. Karl

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American fictions, 1940-1980 : a comprehensive history and critical evaluation, Frederick R. Karl

Title remainder

a comprehensive history and critical evaluation

Statement of responsibility

Frederick R. Karl

Instantiates

• American fictions, 1940-1980 : a comprehensive history and critical evaluation

Publication

• New York, Harper & Row, c1983

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

A Polemical introduction: Who we are -- Themes and counterthemes -- American space and spatiality -- The Persistence of pastoral -- The War and the novel -- before and after -- Growing up in America: The 1940s and thereafter -- The Counterfeit decade -- The Political novel: 1950s and after -- The 1960s: The (WO)man who cried I am -- The Possibilities of minimalism -- The Female experience -- The 1970s: Where we are -- The Nonfiction novel -- Who we are and where we are going

Dimensions

25 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

xiv, 637 p.

Isbn

9780060149390

Lccn

81047659

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

99195228780001161

System control number

• (OCoLC)07836076
• (OCoLC)ocm07836076