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American fiction in the Cold War / Thomas Hill Schaub.

Title
American fiction in the Cold War / Thomas Hill Schaub.
Author
Schaub, Thomas H., 1947-
Publication
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1991.

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Additional Authors
University of Wisconsin. Board of Regents
Description
ix, 214 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
History of American thought and culture
Uniform Title
History of American thought and culture.
Subject
  • Mailer, Norman > Criticism and interpretation
  • Ellison, Ralph > Criticism and interpretation
  • O'Connor, Flannery > Criticism and interpretation
  • Barth, John, 1930-2024 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Barth, John
  • Ellison, Ralph
  • Mailer, Norman
  • O'Connor, Flannery
  • Geschichte 1930-1960
  • Geschichte 1940-1960
  • Geschichte 1940-1989
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1940-1960
  • Geschichte 1930-1960
  • Geschichte 1940-1989
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Political fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Liberalism in literature
  • Cold War in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : the liberal narrative -- The politics of realism : novelistic discourse in the postwar period -- Form and authority : the writer's point of view -- The unhappy consciousness -- From Ranter to writer : Ellison's Invisible man and the new liberalism -- Christian realism and O'Connor's A good man is hard to find -- Rebel without a cause : Mailer's white Negro and consensus liberalism -- Ahab at the Pepsi stand : existentialism and mass culture in Barth's The end of the road.
ISBN
  • 0299128407
  • 029912844X
LCCN
^^^90050652^//r91
OCLC
  • 22626490
  • SCSB-12029834
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library