The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John by Catherine Morley

By Catherine Morley

This volume explores the confluences among varieties of literature in modern the US: the radical and the epic. It analyses the culture of the epic because it has developed from antiquity, via Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this practice has impacted upon modern American writing.

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