Synopses & Reviews
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 lies behind them.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
David Simmons is Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. He has published extensively in the field of American literature, including books on H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, and Twentieth Century Canonical Fiction.
Table of Contents
1. The Rebel with a Cause? The Anti-heroic figure in American Fiction of the 1960s
2. Individualism and the Anti-Capitalist, Anti-heroic Figure in American Fiction of the 1960s
3. The Outlaw Returns: The Cowboy in American Fiction of the 1960s
4. Sinner or Saint? The Anti-hero as Christ Figure in the American Novel of the 1960s