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The prose elegy : an exploration of modern American and British fiction
- Title
- The prose elegy : an exploration of modern American and British fiction / John B. Vickery.
- Author
- Vickery, John B.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- 192 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : major elegiac changes -- Elegies of family and love. Loss of the ideal : James Agee's A death in the family ; Failure as a loss : John Updike's The centaur ; Generational critiques : Virginia Woolf's The years and William Faulkner's Sartoris ; Familial disintegration : James Joyce's Dubliners and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon revisited" ; The loss of romantic love : Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises and James Baldwin's Giovanni's room ; Marriage as cultural change : Henry James's The portrait of a lady and Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms ; Marriage as the end of love : F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night and John Updike's Too far to go -- Cultural and philosophical elegies. Modernism on culture and history : William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end, and others ; Bifocal time : Virginia Woolf's The years and To the lighthouse ; Perspectives on the self : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Joan Didion's Play it as it lays -- A coda : continuity and innovation.
- Call Number
- JFD 09-1972
- ISBN
- 9780807133927 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807133922 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008031560
- OCLC
- 236082505
- Author
- Vickery, John B.
- Title
- The prose elegy : an exploration of modern American and British fiction / John B. Vickery.
- Imprint
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-1972