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• A Chicago of a Novel

  From: Atlantic Monthly

  Oct. 19957,628 words Critical essay [(essay date October 1995) In the following essay, Amis labels The Adventures of Augie March as the "Great American Novel" and presents an overview of the characteristics that render the novel as a distinctly American...

• William Carlos Williams's The Great American Novel: Flamboyance and the Beginning of Art

  From: William Carlos Williams Review

  Spring 200610,995 words Critical essay [(essay date spring 2006) In the following essay, Boone discusses The Great American Novel as a metafictional work and deems it an innovative and unique text that "anticipates postmodern fiction."] In the early 1920s...

• Barth, Letters, and the Great Tradition

  From: Genre

  Spring 19818,625 words Critical essay [(essay date spring 1981) In the following essay, Schulz assesses John Barth's epistolary novel, LETTERS, discussing the plot and exploring the way Barth unites the genres of epistolary and confessional novels in the...

• In Search of the Best

  Author:A.O. ScottFrom:The New York Times Book Review

  May 21, 20063,916 words Essay More than a century ago, Frank Norris wrote that ''the Great American Novel is not extinct like the dodo, but mythical like the hippogriff,'' an observation that Philip Roth later used as the epigraph for a spoofy 1973...