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The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character of the United States. The term was coined by John William De Forest in an 1868 essay and later shortened to GAN.
9. Jan. 2017 · When we ask about the Great American Novel, what we’re really asking is, which of Pynchon’s novels is the most American?… The author’s most obvious candidate for the Great American Novel would seem to be Mason & Dixon , a playfully archaic picaresque about the two 18th-century surveyors who drew the “geometrick Scar ...
Der Begriff Great American Novel (dt. der „Große amerikanische Roman“) ist ein im amerikanischen Literaturdiskurs häufig verwendetes Schlagwort. Er bezeichnet das Ideal eines Romans, der exemplarisch das Wesen der USA abbilden soll, also den besten amerikanischen Roman, der je geschrieben wurde (oder geschrieben werden kann).
The Atlantic's list of "The Great American Novels" was created with the aim of redefining the American literary canon to include a broader, more diverse selection of works published in the last 100 years. The selection process involved consulting a wide range of experts, including scholars, critics, and novelists, to nominate books that were ...
14. März 2024 · This list includes 45 debut novels, nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and three children’s books. Twelve were published before the introduction of the mass-market paperback to ...
30. Juni 2016 · By Carolyn Kellogg. June 30, 2016 8 AM PT. The Great American Novel: A book that most perfectly imagines the kaleidoscope of our nation, its social fabric and its troubled conscience, its ...
13. Apr. 2020 · What is the Great American Novel? Its existence as a singular volume is surely a myth, but what is the concept of the Great American Novel? Here I will run down the history of the concept and attempt to determine once and for all what we mean when we say “the great American novel.”
