Great American Novels by Aronson, J

Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel by Jean-Yves Pellegrin

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Bill & Carlos : les Amériques de William Carlos Williams by Anna Aublet

“…As the sailors of William Carlos Williams’ Great American Novel (1923) lay eyes upon the coast of America, they exclaim: “Nuevo Mundo!” …”
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“Russell Banks goes Creole”: A Talk with the Author of The Book of Jamaica and Continental Drift by Kathleen Gyssels, Gaëlle Cooreman

“…The main topics included are Banks’ idea of the Great American Novel, his involvement with the African diaspora and his « Caribbean » novels The Book of Jamaica and Continental Drift.…”
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Edith Wharton, Translator by Virginia Ricard

“…But by the early 1920s she began to be seen as the author of American novels, perhaps even the author of what she herself ironically called “the Great American Novel.”…”
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Resonantly Reading Borderlands Narratives in Valeria Luiselli’s <em>Lost Children Archive</em> by Helen Plevka-Jones

“…While McCarthy was credited with writing the “Great American Novel” and Bolaño was celebrated as the greatest Latin American literary voice of his generation, both of these writers shared borderlands narratives where characters move between Latin America and the United States. …”
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