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  • American Fiction Since 1940
    Tony Hilfer
    In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women’s writing, and the traditions of African-American, Southern and Jewish-American fiction. Key writers discussed include William ...
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    41,88 €

  • The Crime Novel
    Tony Hilfer
    Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that 'right' will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the 'hero' is either the killer, the victim, a guilty byst...
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    26,85 €

  • The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction
    Tony Hilfer
    Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stein, Howells, Dreiser, and Henry James, Anthony Hilfer explores how these authors have structured their characters’ consciousness, their purpose in doing so, and how this presentation controls the reader’s moral response. Hilfer contends that there was a signifi...
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    33,71 €