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Title	The quest for epic in contemporary American fiction : John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo / Catherine Morley.
Author	Morley, Catherine, 1977- author.
Publisher	New York : Routledge, 2009.

Status	Loan Type	Location	Shelf-mark
In Library	Standard	Library Level 9	English XA228.E63 MOR

Description	viii, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN	9780415961134 hardback
	0415961130 hardback
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Theoretical and generic considerations -- A transnational inheritance: Joycean and American ancestry -- The bard of everyday domesticity: John Updike's song of America -- Transnational paternalisms: Philip Roth's post-pastoral American epic -- Don DeLillo's Underworld as recycled American epic.
Series	Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 8
Library Class	English XA228.E63
Subject	Updike, John. Rabbit Angstrom.
	Roth, Philip. American pastoral.
	DeLillo, Don. Underworld.
	Epic literature, American -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- In literature.

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