In the Singer's Temple: Prose Fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski

by Jack Hicks

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Hicks argues convincingly that current American fiction mirrors the cultural fragmentation that has occurred in America since World War II. He proposes that realism is no longer the dominant mode, that the modern American writers he discusses have abandoned public experience and social realism for intensely personal experiences and literary modes of black humor, fable romance, and allegory. This inward retreat to literary subcultures reflects the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807814679

ISBN13:9780807814673

Release Date:January 1981

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:6.0" x 8.0"

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