The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

by David Simmons (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $115.73

  The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s 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.