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Cinematic Fictions is often fascinating. Seed makes reference to an impressive range of texts in comparison and counterpoint to those around the key fictions around which each chapter's discussion revolves. This will make this particular study attractive to teachers of early twentieth-century American literature, as well as of American Studies more broadly, of modules that focus on modernity and on visual and film cultures.' Professor Sharon Monteith,...

"Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode for authors from both nations--including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vasily Aksyonov, Yuz Aleshkovsky,...

Traces the beginnings of fiction in America and the earliest writer researched is Cooper and the latest is Wolfe. Commentaries on the novelists are presented.

Critical extracts. Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth. Hurston, Zora Neale. Jackson, Shirley. Larsen, Nella. McCarty, Mary. McCullers, Carson. Mitchell, Margaret. Nin, Anais. O'Connor, Flannery. Parker, Dorothy. Petry, Ann.