This astute guide to the literary achievements of Americannovelists in the twentieth century places their work in itshistorical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novelsbased on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrativeform.
* Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and earlytwenty-first century American literary history
* Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The GreatGatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot49 and Freedom
* Relates these individual novels to the broader artisticmovements of modernism and postmodernism
* Explains and applies key principles of rhetorical reading
* Includes numerous cross-novel comparisons andcontrasts