Research Catalog

Title

Vulnerable people : a view of American fiction since 1945 / Josephine Hendin.

Author

Hendin, Josephine.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.

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Details

Description

237 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Updike, John > Criticism and interpretation
• Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 > Criticism and interpretation
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 > Criticism and interpretation
• Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation
• Mailer, Norman > Criticism and interpretation
• Vonnegut, Kurt > Criticism and interpretation
• Barth, John > Criticism and interpretation
• Bellow, Saul > Criticism and interpretation
• Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
• O'Connor, Flannery > Criticism and interpretation
• Gardner, John
• Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
• O'Connor, Flannery
• Bellow, Saul
• Barth, John
• Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
• Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
• Mailer, Norman
• Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
• Pynchon, Thomas
• Updike, John
• Vonnegut, Kurt
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1945-1977
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Social problems in literature
• American fiction
• Social problems in literature
• Roman
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Roman américain > 1945- ... > Histoire et critique
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

In search of release -- The writer as culture hero, the father as son -- Angries : S-M as a literary style -- Fictions for survival -- The victim is a hero -- American rebels are men of action -- On and off the treadmill -- Journeys -- Thomas Pynchon and western man -- The purposive imagination.

ISBN

• 0195023196
• 9780195023190
• 0195026209
• 9780195026207

LCCN

77010103

OCLC

• ocm03168698
• 3168698
• SCSB-8409451

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library