4. Intermediality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. 0. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Systematic Questions
6. 1. Modernism 21
7. 2. Postmodernism 35
8. 3. Cultural Diversity 52
9. 4. Intermediality 68
10. 5. Inter-American Perspectives 84
11. 6. The American Novel and the Marketplace 98
12. 7. Futures of the American Novel 113
13. Part II. Close Readings
14. 8. Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903) 131
15. 9. Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918) 148
16. 10. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) 162
17. 11. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925) 177
18. 12. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926) 192
19. 13. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936) 206
20. 14. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936) 222
21. 15. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) 237
22. 16. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) 250
23. 17. Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men (1946) 264
24. 18. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952) 278
25. 19. Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood (1952) 294
26. 20. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) 308
27. 21. Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) 322
28. 22. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) 337
29. 23. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984) 351
30. 24. Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) 361
31. 25. Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) 374
32. 26. Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997) 388
33. 27. Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) 401
34. 28. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006) 414
35. 29. Louise Erdrich, The Round House (2012) 427
36. Index of Subjects 443
37. Index of Names 447
38. List of Contributors 459