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 | | The Twentieth Century Novel: An Introduction by R. B. Kershner ISBN-10: 9780312163761 ISBN-10: 0-312-16376-2 ISBN-13: 9780312163761 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-16376-1 Hardcover 1997-03-15 Palgrave Macmillan Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description An introductory student guide to the novel in the twentieth century, this text gives the student a socio-historic context against which to assess the modern, post-modern and contemporary novel. | ||
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Good book, but look at the freakin' price! I'm a literature professor, too, and I was thinking of using this brief, informative book as required reading for an upcoming class on the American novel in the 20th century. But then I saw the price! The full retail price is more than $90 for such a little book -- no illustrations, no glossy pages, none of the things that make science text books so expensive. It has about 120 small pages of text. Even its discount price of about $45 it is outrageous. Such a price nearly guarantees the book's failure on the market, however useful it might be. What student can afford that? Bedford Books must be staffed by either fools or King Midas's children. | ||
Makes clear the profound As a professor of literature, I love this little book. I've been teaching the 20th-century novel for a few years, and I've never come across something that so clearly makes the connections for both myself and my students. This amazingly compact work is comprehensive and horribly philosophical, and yet it presents the connections in a very approachable way: I would highly recommend it for both teachers and students. (Indispensible for graduate studies in English.) | ||