Revolution : the event in postwar fiction /

Socially, politically and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century-still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that post...

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Main Author: Wilkens, Matthew, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The structure of literary revolutions -- Allegory -- Event -- The encyclopedia as object and metaphor -- Failure and novelty in postwar fiction -- Allegory, encyclopedism, and postwar america -- Ellison's impure manifesto -- Integration and disorder in The golden notebook. 
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