The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell. by Buell, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…, Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South -- Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury -- Fatalisms of the multitude -- Melville's Moby-Dick: from oblivion to great American novel -- The great American novel of twentieth-century breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.…”
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Four great American novels... / edited by Raymond W. Short ... by Short, Raymond W. (Raymond Wright), 1903-1966

Gatsby : the cultural history of the great American novel / Bob Batchelor. by Batchelor, Bob

Table of Contents: “…Gatsby lives: the enduring legacy of the great American novel. 10. Is romance timeless? -- 11. A hope for reading and the quest for the great American novel -- 12. …”
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Brainwave : memory. Tim McHenry, producer ; Rubin Museum of Art.

“…Committing the great American novel to memory : Scott Shepherd and John Kubie…”
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A journey through American literature / Kevin J. Hayes. by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- Travels -- Autobiography -- Narrative voice and the short story -- Poetry -- The drama of the everyday -- The great American novel -- Endings.…”
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The sketch, the tale, and the beginnings of American literature / Lydia G. Fash. by Fash, Lydia G., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…The Short Fiction Skeleton of the Great American Novel.…”
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Guilty Pleasures : Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century / Hugh McIntosh. by McIntosh, Hugh, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the not-so-great American novel -- Uncle Tom's Cabin and the unprivileged public sphere -- Ben-Hur: spectacles of belief -- British authorship, American advertising -- Questionable Americans abroad -- Unknowing American realism: Uncle Tom's Cabin to Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and James Baldwin -- Afterword: the novel and America abroad now.…”
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First Books : the Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama. by Beidler, Philip D.

Table of Contents: “…""The First Production of the Kind, in the South"": A Backwoods Literary Incognito and His Attempt at the Great American Novel; 4. Belles Lettres in a New Country; 5. …”
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Power Excel and Word. by Gookin, Dan

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 5: Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles of Time; Chapter 6: Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay; Chapter 7: The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables; Chapter 8: Sharing Your Work with Others; Chapter 9: Making Your Own Custom Word.…”
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Call us Ishmael

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Playful and serious : Philip Roth as a comic writer / edited by Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio.

Table of Contents: “…A comic crisis of faith : Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews" and "Eli, the fanatic" / Timothy Parrish -- Philip Roth's comic realism in Goodbye, Columbus / Victoria Aarons -- Masturbation and its discontents; or, Serious relief : Freudian comedy in Portnoy's complaint / David Brauner -- Affairs of the breast : Philip Roth and David Kepesh / Judith Yaross Lee -- The body in shame : Philip Roth's physical comedy / David Gilotta -- Plots against America : language and the comedy of conspiracy in Philip Roth's early fiction / Derek Parker Royal -- The myths of summer : Philip Roth's The great American novel / Ben Siegel -- Operation Shylock : the double, the comic, and the quest for identity / Elaine Safer -- Roth's Falstaff : transgressive humor in Sabbath's theater / Peter Scheckner -- Sabbath's complaint : Philip Roth's black comedy in Sabbath's theater / Gurumurthy Neelakantan -- Deadly farce in the comedy of Philip Roth / Jay L. …”
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The rise of the American comics artist : creators and contexts / edited by Paul Williams and James Lyons.

Table of Contents: “…Ball -- Questions of "contemporary women's comics" / Paul Williams -- Theorizing sexuality in comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders -- Feminine Latin/o American identities on the American alternative landscape : from the women of Love and rockets to La perdida / Ana Merino -- Making comics respectable : how Maus helped redefine a medium / Ian Gordon -- "A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel / Paul Williams -- "That mouse's shadow" : the canonization of Spiegelman's Maus / Andrew Loman.…”
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Carnival / Jason Bredle. by Bredle, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Driving and ShavingThe Killing; You Should Have Thought About What I was Willing to Do in Order to Get the Job Done; Better Things; The Great American Novel; The Death March; Ginger; A Sip of Inspiration; Indian Ocean; July 18; The Almond Tree; Mustache Fire; Robert Goulet; From "Home Exile" by Juphouto Bayasi Translated from the Ül-Beyazey by Pablo Rockefeller; From "Sky Fire" by Juphouto Bayasi Translated from the Ül-Beyazey by Pablo Rockefeller; Stepfather Mohawk; Pleasant Surprise; Force Majeure; Another Surprise; The Tiger; Falling from a Bridge.…”
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A comparative analysis of the great American and Arab novel : a study of the USA and Cairo trilogies / by Alen Ontl. by Ontl, Alen

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Legend Classics). by Twain, Mark

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Bruce Springsteen. Road Trip-40 Years Of The Boss / MVD Entertainment Group.

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A companion to the American novel / edited by Alfred Bendixen.

Table of Contents: “…The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's / Monika Elbert -- Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's / Wyn Kelley -- Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's / Susan Belasco -- Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's / Greg W Zacharias -- Mark Twain's : A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace / Michael J Kiskis -- What Women want: Kate Chopin's / Emily Toth -- Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's / James Nagel -- Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's / Kathy Fedorko -- The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's / James Nagel -- Fitzgerald's and the Myth of the Land / Richard Lehan -- Ground Zero: Faulkner's / Philip Weinstein -- A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's and the Great American Novel / Andrew Warnes -- Our : The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity / John Carlos Rowe -- The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's / Ben Siegel -- The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's / Valerie Smith -- A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's / Olivia Carr Edenfield -- Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel -- Index.…”
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A companion to the American novel / edited by Alfred Bendixen.

Table of Contents: “…The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's / Monika Elbert -- Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's / Wyn Kelley -- Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's / Susan Belasco -- Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's / Greg W Zacharias -- Mark Twain's : A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace / Michael J Kiskis -- What Women want: Kate Chopin's / Emily Toth -- Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's / James Nagel -- Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's / Kathy Fedorko -- The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's / James Nagel -- Fitzgerald's and the Myth of the Land / Richard Lehan -- Ground Zero: Faulkner's / Philip Weinstein -- A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's and the Great American Novel / Andrew Warnes -- Our : The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity / John Carlos Rowe -- The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's / Ben Siegel -- The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's / Valerie Smith -- A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's / Olivia Carr Edenfield -- Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel -- Index.…”
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