New Readings of the American Novel Narrative Theory and Its Application

Takes a set of important theoretical approaches, including Genette, Barthes, Bakhtin & Reader Response criticism, & applies them in close readings of 8 key American novels from the period 1880 to 1940. This series of novels moves from James's The Portrait of a LadyÓ to Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.Ó Also includes Twain's Huckleberry Finn,Ó Wharton's The House of Mirth,Ó Cather's A Lost Lady,Ó Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises,Ó Faulkner's The Sound & the Fury, & Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.Ó These perennially popular novels appear on many American Literature survey courses & the careful application of theory to texts makes this the ideal book for students when first introduced to the concept of narrative theory.Messent, Peter is the author of 'New Readings of the American Novel Narrative Theory and Its Application', published 1998 under ISBN 9780756774776 and ISBN 0756774772.