American fiction in the Cold War
An exploration of the relationship between US political and social thought and literary consciousness in the early post-war years in which the author analyzes the efforts by writers to reshape their "old" liberalism into a "new" sceptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil.
Print Book, English, 1991
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1991
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
9780299128401, 9780299128449, 0299128407, 029912844X
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Introduction : the liberal narrative
The politics of realism : novelistic discourse in the postwar period
Form and authority : the writer's point of view
The unhappy consciousness
From Ranter to writer : Ellison's Invisible man and the new liberalism
Christian realism and O'Connor's A good man is hard to find
Rebel without a cause : Mailer's white Negro and consensus liberalism
Ahab at the Pepsi stand : existentialism and mass culture in Barth's The end of the road
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