The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut

by David Simmons

Book Overview

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s such as Catch-22, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Slaughterhouse-Five to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works, and in the process reasserts the important social impetus that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137473258
• ISBN13: 9781137473257
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"