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The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

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The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

By: Tessa Roynon

This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.

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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Transforming American Culture

By: Tessa Roynon

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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Transforming American Culture

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In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussions, she argues that classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American culture that Morrison's work effects.

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0199698686

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The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

By: Tessa Roynon

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The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

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Lively and accessibly written, this Introduction offers readers a guide to the complex and rewarding literature of Toni Morrison.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107003911

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The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

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The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

By: Tessa Roynon

Toni Morrison has written some of the most significant and demanding fiction of the modern age. Her dazzling depictions of African-American experience are studied in high schools and colleges, debated in the media and analyzed by scholars at an astounding rate. This Introduction offers readers a guide to the world of Morrison in all its complexity, from her status as a key player on the global intellectual stage to her unique perspective on American history and her innovative narrative techniques. Covering every novel from The Bluest Eye to A Mercy, Tessa Roynon combines close readings with critical insights into Morrison's other creative work, such as short stories, libretto and song lyrics and unpublished pieces for performance. Lively and accessibly written, Roynon's insightful text is ideal for readers approaching Morrison for the first time as well as those familiar with her work.

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1283836009

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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Transforming American Culture

By: Tessa Roynon

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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Transforming American Culture

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In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussion, she argues that Morrison's classical allusiveness is characterized by a strategic ambivalence. Adopting a thematic, rather than novel-by-novel approach, Roynon demonstrates that Morrison's classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American history and culture that her work effects. Building on recent developments in race theory, transnational studies, and Classical Reception studies, the volume positions Morrison within a genealogy of intellectuals who have challenged the purported conservative nature of Greek and Roman tradition, and who have revealed its construction as a 'white' or pure and purifying force to be a fabrication of the Enlightenment. Exploring the ways in which Morrison's dialogue with Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, and Ovid relates to her simultaneous dialogue with many other American literary forebears - from Cotton Mather to Willa Cather, or from Pauline Hopkins to F.Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner - Roynon shows that Morrison's classicism enables her to fulfil her own imperative that 'the past has to be revised'.

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OUP Oxford

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0191501670

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The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

By: Research Fellow in English Tessa Roynon

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By: Research Fellow in English Tessa Roynon

Lively and accessibly written, this Introduction offers readers a guide to the complex and rewarding literature of Toni Morrison.

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The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

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