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The feeling of being : sensibility in postwar American fiction
- Title
- The feeling of being : sensibility in postwar American fiction / Walter Shear.
- Author
- Shear, Walter, 1932-
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, 2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.S444 S43 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 264 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; vol. 31
- Uniform Title
- Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 31.
- Subject
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Sensitivity (Personality trait) in literature
- Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- World War, 1939-1945 > Influence
- Cold War in literature
- Self in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264)
- Contents
- Pt. I. Shadows of War. Ch. I. Hot War/Cold War Publics. Ch. II. Tough Places to Be. Ch. III. Desperate Rites: The Immersion in Fate -- Pt. II. Seeking an Identity. Crosscurrents. Ch. IV. The Personal Nature of Being. Ch. V. The Rebel as Subject/Object. Ch. VI. Journeying to Abundance. Ch. VII. Saul Bellow: Apprentice to the World. Ch. VIII. Peter Taylor: Imagining the Social Self. Ch. IX. Jack Kerouac: On the Move, Riding the Speed of Experience. Ch. X. Kurt Vonnegut: The Comic Fate of the Sensibility.
- ISBN
- 0820455687 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2001029018
- OCLC
- ocm45879606
- SCSB-4277782
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries