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Works cited
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 1983.
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Race." Critical Terms for Literary
Study. 2nd ed. Eds. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1995. 274-287.
- Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London: Routledge, 1980.
- Eagleton, Terry. Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso, 1991.
- Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1983.
- Jehlen, Myra. "Gender." Critical Terms for Literary Study.
2nd ed. Eds. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1995. 262-273.
- Kavanagh, James H. "Ideology." Critical Terms for Literary
Study. 2nd ed. Eds. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1995. 306-320
- Lentricchia, Frank., and Thomas McLaughlin. eds. Critical Terms for
Literary Study. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Lewis, R.W.B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition
in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1955.
- McLaughlin, Thomas. "Introduction." Critical Terms for
Literary Study. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. 2nd ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Mitchell, W.J.T. "Representations." Critical Terms for
Literary Study. 2nd ed. Eds. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 11-22.
- Sandra A. Zagarell, "Narrative of Community: The Identification
of a Genre," Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist
Literary Criticism. Ed. VèVè A. Clark, Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres
and Madelon Sprengnether. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- Stephens, John. Reading the Signs: Sense and Significance in Written
Texts. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1992.
- Thompson, John B. Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social
Theory in the Era of Mass Communication. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990.
- Williams, Raymond. "Dickens and Social Ideas." Dickens
1970: Centenary Essays. Ed. Michael Slater. London: Chapman & Hall,
1970.
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Further reading
- Allen, Walter. Tradition and Dream: A Critical Survey of British
and American Fiction From the 1920s to the Present Day. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1974.
- Barth, John. "The Literature of Exhaustion." The Novel
Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction. Ed. Malcolm Bradbury.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977. 70-83.
- Bellow, Saul. "Some Notes on Recent American Fiction." The
World of Black Humour: An Introductory Anthology of Selections and Criticism.
Ed. Douglas M. Davis. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1967. 329-37.
- Bercovitch, Sacvan, and Jehlen, Myra, eds. Ideology and Classic American
Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- De Laurentis, Theresa. ed. Feminist Studies, Critical Studies.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
- Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1962.
- Gass, William H. Fiction and The Figures of Life. New York: Alfred
A. Knoff, 1970.
- Hassan, Ihab. Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American
Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
- Howe, Irving. The Decline of the New. London: Victor Gollantz,
1971.
- Hutcheon, Linda. Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox.
Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1980.
- Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London:
Methuen, 1981.
- Josipovici, Gabriel. The World and The Book: A Study of Modern Fiction.
London: Macmillan, 1971.
- Kellman, Steven G. The Self-Begetting Novel. New York: Columbia
UP, 1980.
- Kermode, Frank. Essays on Fiction: 1971-82. London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1983.
- Knickerbocker, Conrad. "Humor With a Mortal Sting." The
World of Black Humour: An Introductory Anthology of Selections and Criticism.
Ed. Douglas M. Davis. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967. 209-305.
- Kostelanetz, Richard. "The American Absurd Novel." The
World of Black Humour: An Introductory Anthology of Selections and Criticism.
Ed. Douglas M. Davis. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967. 306-13.
- Lodge, David. "The Novelist at the Crossroads." The Novel
Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction. Ed. Malcolm Bradbury.
Manchester: Manchester UP, 1977.
- Podhoretz, Norman. Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in
American Writing. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965.
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain. For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction. Trans.
Richard Howard. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.
- Scholes, Robert. Fabulation and Metafiction. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1979.
- Scholes, Robert. The Fabulators. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1967.
- Seltzer, Alvin J. Chaos in The Novel: The Novel in Chaos. New
York, Schocken Books, 1974.
- Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1971.
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Additional Reading
The following is a list of texts which you may find useful. Those which
are available in the CQU library have a call number beside them. This list
includes criticism specifically on the texts discussed in the unit a well
as more general texts about North American fiction and film and about literary
theory. A more specific reading list will be provided at the end of each
chapter.
- 801.95 7 Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London: Methuen, 1980.
- 810.9 23. Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Cambridge History of American Literature.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- 823.91409 1/1979 Bergonzi, Bernard. The Situation of the Novel. London:
Macmillan, 1979.
- Bersani, Leo. The Culture of Redemption. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP,
1990.
- 813.509 6. Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern American Novel. Oxford, England:
Oxford University Press, 1983.
- 810.90052 5/1987. Cunliffe, Marcus. American Literature Since 1900.
New York: P. Bedrick Books, 1987.
- Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1983.
- 813 1/1966 Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel.
New York: Stein and Day, 1966.
- 801.950973 1 Fiedler, Leslie A. What was literature?: Class Culture
and Mass Society. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
- 813.5409353 1 Greiner, Donald J. Women Enter the Wilderness: Male Bonding
and the American Novel of the 1980s. Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 1991.
- 810.91 1 Hoffman, Michael J., & Patrick D. Murphy. Critical Essays
on American Modernism. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992.
- 809.391 1 Hutcheon, L. A Poetics of Post Modernism. New York: Routledge,
1988.
- 809.304 1 Hutcheon, L. Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox.
Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1980.
- 809.304 2 Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York:
Routledge, 1989.
- 306 131 Kaplan, E. Ann. Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories,
Practices. London: Verso, 1988.
- 810.90054 2 Kiernan, Robert F. American Writing Since 1945: A Critical
Survey. New York: F. Ungar, 1983.
- 820.9 60 Langbaum, Robert. The Word from Below: Essays on Modern Literature
and Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
- 813.009 3 Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1971.
- 810.9 20/1987 Leary, Lewis, and Warren French. Reference Guide to American
Literature. Chicago: St. James Press, 1987.
- 813.54 11 Olster, Stacey. Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary
American Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- 813.5409 8 Stonehill, Brian. The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction
from Joyce to Pynchon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
- 801.95 107 Waugh, Patricia. Postmodernism: A Reader. New York: Edward
Arnold, 1992.
- 801.953 4 Waugh, Patricia. Metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious
Fiction. London: Methuen, 1984.
- 809 76 Waugh, Patricia. Practising Postmodernism, Reading Modernism.
London: Edward Arnold, 1992.
- 813.5409 7 Wilde, Alan. Middle Grounds: Studies in Contemporary American
Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
- 809.38 1 Wilding, Michael. Political Fictions. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1980.
- 810.93520431 1 Yaeger, Patricia, and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace. Refiguring
the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy. Carbondale, Ill: Southern
Illinios University Press, 1989.
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Readings (Resource Material Book)
The unit Study Guide should be regarded as just that, as a guide. What we
have done is to provide you with plenty of references (some of which are
listed in the Unit Profile and at the end of each chapter). Some of these
references are specific to particular texts, and some relate to American
literature in general. How much you read should be a function of your interest,
the time you have available, and the texts on which you intend to write
your essays.
We have included some readings in the Resource Materials Book which accompanies
this unit Study Guide for students studying in the external mode. Unfortunately,
it is not possible at present to place this material on the web. Nonetheless,
we have listed these readings below; included with each reading is an indication
of the chapter in the Study Guide to which it relates. The Resource Materials
book is available from the Student Union here at CQU, or it may be accessed
at any CQU library.
- Reading 1
- Jehlen, M. "Introduction: Beyond Transcendence." Ideology
and Classic American Literature. Eds S. Bercovitch and M. Jehlen. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986. 1-18. (Introduction)
- Reading 2
- Ryan, M. and D. Kellner. "Introduction." Camera Politica:
The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1988. 1-16. (Introduction; chapters where there are film
versions of the novels)
- Reading 3
- Lewis, R.W.B. "The Narrative Imago." The American Adam: Innocence,
Tragedy and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: Chicago University
Press, 1955, 77-89. (Introduction; Chapter 1-Poe; Chapter 2-Melville; Chapter
3-Stein)
- Reading 4
- Davis, D. M. The World of Black Humor: An Introductory Anthology of
Selections and Criticisms. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967. 13-26, 296-352.
(Introduction; Chapter 6-Kesey; Chapter 7-Irving)
- Reading 5
- Miller, J.E. Quests Surd and Absurd: Essays in American Literature.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. 3-30. (Introduction; Chapter
6-Kesey; Chapter 7-Irving)
- Reading 6
- Scholes, Robert. "Fabulation and Satire." The Fabulators.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. 34-55. (Introduction; Chapter 6-Kesey;
Chapter 7-Irving)
- Reading 7
- Johnson, Barbara. "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida."
Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader. Boston: Routledge, 1981.
225-243. (Chapter 1-Poe)
- Reading 8
- Eaton, Mark. "'Lost in Their Mazes': Framing Facts and Fictions
in 'Benito Cereno'." Journal of Narrative Technique 24.3 (1994): 212-236.
(Chapter 2-Melville)
- Reading 9
- Blundtzen, Lynda K. "The Bell Jar: The Past as Allegory."
Plath's Incarnations: Women and the Creative Process. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1983. 109-156. (Chapter 5-Plath)
- Reading 10
- Tanner, Tony. "Edge City." City of Words: American Fiction
1950-1970. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. 372-393. (Chapter 6-Kesey)
- Reading 11
- Dickerson, Vanessa D. "The Naked Father in Toni Morrison's The
Bluest Eye." Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of the Patriarchy.
Illinios: Southern Illinios University Press, 1989. 108-127. (Chapter 9-Morrison)
- Reading 12
- Harris, Trudier. "Reconnecting Fragments: Afro-American Folk Tradition
in The Bluest Eye." Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Ed. Nellie Y
McKay. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988. 68-76. (Chapter 9-Morrison)
- Reading 13
- Saalmann, Dieter. "Walter Abish's How German Is It: Language and
the Crisis of Human Behavior." Critique (Spring 1985): 105-121. (Chapter
10-Abish)
- Reading 14
- Schirato, Tony. "The Politics of Writing and Being Written: A Study
of Walter Abish's How German Is It." Novel 24.1 (1990): 69-85. (Chapter
10-Abish)
- Reading 15
- Rubenstein, Roberta. "Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's
Tale." Margaret Atwood: Vision and Form. Eds. Kathryn von Spanckeren
and Jan Garden Castro. Carbondale: Southern Illinios University Press, 1988.
101-112. (Chapter 11-Atwood)
- Reading 16
Wilson, Sharon Rose. "Off the Path to Grandma's House in The Handmaid's
Tale." Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics. Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1993. 271-294. (Chapter 11-Atwood)
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