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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)
The AntiHero in the American Novel From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut - American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century Author:David Simmons 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 5 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 emphasiz... more »es the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works, and in the process reasserts the important social impetus that lies behind them.« less