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

by Jack Hicks

Overview

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 breakdown of mainstream American culture.

Originally published in 1981.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807840962
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	11/10/1982
Edition description:	1
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

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From the Publisher

Among the strongest criticism on recent American fiction I have read. Jack Hicks has long been one of America's most promising younger critics. With In the Singer's Temple he delivers on that promise with a genuinely helpful guide to six of our most important writers.—Jerome Klinkowitz

Editorial Reviews

"Among the strongest criticism on recent American fiction I have read. Jack Hicks has long been one of America's most promising younger critics. With "In the Singer's Temple" he delivers on that promise with a genuinely helpful guide to six of our most important writers."--Jerome Klinkowitz

From the Publisher