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Article: Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970.(Review) (book review)
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- American Studies International
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Kenneth Millard. Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000),, 328 pp., $19.95 (paper).
The book is intended as a guide to late twentieth-century American fiction for the undergraduate students and general readers. This kind of a literature survey is somewhat of a rare species in our time of narrow specialization. In case of the current literature the task is even more difficult as all estimations are preliminary and can be easily overturned. Yet the need for such works is great and acute, particularly considering the interest to US literature worldwide. From this perspective, it looks ...