The American Epic

[Ya Sam]

The American Epic Novel in the Late Twentieth Century - The Super-genre of the Imperial State - W. Gilbert Adait - Hardcover - english - 9780773452138


Summary:
This study undertakes close readings of four different epic novels of the 1970s: James A. Michener's Centennial (1974), Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song (1979), Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren (1975). In these, the author examines the possibilities and pitfalls of the genre and its way of grappling in complex ways with the idea and reality of an American empire. 


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