A01=Malcolm Bradbury
American literary modernism
Author_Malcolm Bradbury
Category=DSBH
Category=DSK
comic realism studies
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experimental novel criticism
individual in postmodern literature
narrative identity theory
Nobel Prize fiction analysis
subjectivity in twentieth-century novels
Product details
- ISBN 9780415562454
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study of Saul Bellow, initially published in 1982, looks at this Nobel Prize-winning author as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, ‘post-modern’ developments in the novel.
Bradbury draws attention to Bellow’s comedy, his sense of contemporary history and its stresses and anxieties, his attempt to sustain an adequate concept of the individual and the power of the imagination in an age of overwhelming concepts and notions of ‘death of the subject’. Above all, emphasis is placed on Bellow’s contemporaneity and significance, his role in the contemporary possibilities of the novel.
