Also includes Appendix A: Additional selected themes and topics followed by a list of American novels: AFRICAN AMERICANS: Absalom, Absalom! -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The bear -- Beloved -- The bluest eye -- The color purple -- The confessions...

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1. Verfasser:	Adamson, Lynda G. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Westport, Conn. [u.a.] Greenwood Press 2002
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Roman américain - Résumés, programmes, etc Roman américain - Thèmes, motifs - Guides, manuels, etc American fiction > Outlines, syllabi, etc American fiction > Themes, motives > Handbooks, manuals, etc Roman Stoff > Literatur USA Wörterbuch
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:	Also includes Appendix A: Additional selected themes and topics followed by a list of American novels: AFRICAN AMERICANS: Absalom, Absalom! -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The bear -- Beloved -- The bluest eye -- The color purple -- The confessions of Nat Turner -- Devil in a blue dress -- Fallen angels -- Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe -- A gathering of old men -- Go tell it on the mountain -- The hiding place -- Invisible man -- A lesson before dying -- Light in August -- The lilies of the field -- Linden hills -- Mama -- Mama day -- Middle passage -- Native son -- Our nig -- Passing -- Ragtime -- Song of Solomon -- Sound and the fury -- Sula -- Tar baby -- Their eyes were watching God -- To kill a mockingbird -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Waiting to exhale -- The women of Brewster place -- Yellow raft in blue water. BILDUNGSROMAN: All the king's men -- All the pretty horses -- Annie John -- April morning -- The bean trees -- The bear -- Bless me, Ultima -- Bluest eye -- Brown girl, brownstones -- The catcher in the rye -- Ceremony -- Chocolate war -- chosen -- Cold sassy tree -- Deliverance -- Folded leaf -- Fools crow -- Foxfire -- Great Santini -- The house on mango street -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents -- The human comedy -- Invisible man -- Member of the wedding -- The moviegoer -- Native son -- River runs through it -- Sister Carrie -- To kill a mockingbird -- A tree grows in Brooklyn -- Yellow raft in blue water. CHINESE AND CHINESE AMERICANS: Bone -- The good earth -- Joy luck club -- Kitchen god's wife -- Woman warrior DREAMS AND THE SUPERNATURAL: Angle of repose -- Bless me, Ultima -- Ceremony -- Fools crow -- Going after Cacciato -- The great Gatsby -- The heart is a lonely hunter -- House made of dawn -- The house made of dawn -- The house of the seven gables -- Love medicine -- Mama -- Mama day -- Reservation blues -- Slaughterhouse five -- Tar baby. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Absalom, absalom! -- The bell jar -- The bluest eye -- Bone -- Brown girl, brownstones -- Charlotte temple -- Cold mountain -- The color purple -- Ellen Foster -- Foxfire -- The good Earth -- House on Mango Street -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents -- In the time of butterflies -- The poisonwood bible -- The rise of Silas Lapham -- The shipping news -- Song of Solomon -- A tree grows in Brooklyn 00 To kill a mockingbird -- Washington Square. FINE ARTS AND EDUCATION: The accidental tourist -- The age of innocence -- Angle of repose -- The awakening -- The bell jar -- Brown girl, brownstones -- The chosen -- Cold mountain -- Deliverance -- Fahrenheit 451 -- Foxfire -- The heart is a lonely hunter -- The house on Mango Street -- Main Street -- Mama -- Memoirs of a Geisha -- The moviegoer -- The poisonwood bible -- Ragtime -- Reservation blues -- A river runs through it -- The shipping news -- Sister Carrie -- Slaughterhouse five -- Snow falling on cedars -- These is my words -- A tree grows in Brooklyn -- Winesburg, Ohio -- The woman warrior FRONTIER LIFE: Angle of repose -- Death comes for the archbishop -- Fools crow -- Giants in the earth -- The last of the Mohicans -- My Antonia -- O Pioneers! -- The Ox-Bow incident -- These is my words. HISPANIC AND CARIBBEAN EXTRACTION: All the pretty horses -- Annie John -- Bless me Ultima -- Brown girl, brownstones -- The house on Mango Street -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents -- In the time of the butterflies -- The pearl. INFIDELITY: The age of innocence -- All the king's men -- Angle of repose -- The awakening -- Brown girl, brownstones -- Ceremony -- The color purple -- The crying of lot 49 -- Ethan Frome -- Fools Crow -- The good earth -- The great Gatsby -- Mama -- Rabbit, run -- The scarlet letter -- Seize the day -- Sister Carrie -- Sula -- Tender is the night -- Waiting to exhale -- A yellow raft in blue water -- JUDAISM: The assistant -- The chosen -- The fixer -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The ruse of David Levinsky -- Tell me a riddle. MARRIAGE: The age of innocence -- Angle of repose -- The awakening -- Black and blue -- Bone -- The color purple -- A death in the family -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant -- Fahrenheit 451 -- Giants in the earth -- The good earth -- In the time of the butterflies -- The kitchen god's wife -- Main street -- Mama day -- Ordinary people -- Passing -- The pearl -- The poisonwood bible -- Rabbit, run -- Ragtime -- The rise of Silas Lapham -- The shipping news -- Song of Solomon -- Tar baby -- Tell me a riddle -- Their eyes were watching god -- These is my words -- A yellow raft in blue water
Beschreibung:	XI, 372 S.
ISBN:	0313311943