Melancholia, loss, and love : the failure of the epiphanic mode in Salinger’s the catcher in the rye and franny and zooey

Melancholia, loss, and love : the failure of the epiphanic mode in Salinger’s the catcher in the rye and franny and zooey

The epiphanic mode, whether in early modernist novels or the traditional genre of the bildungsroman, has worked to provide an affirmative resolution to the struggles and journeys in the narrative. However, the epiphanic mode ultimately fails in the fiction of postwar America. The cult of adolescence...

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Main Author: Lim, Yan Sin
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-591452019-12-10T11:28:04Z Melancholia, loss, and love : the failure of the epiphanic mode in Salinger’s the catcher in the rye and franny and zooey Lim, Yan Sin School of Humanities and Social Sciences Kevin Andrew Riordan DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American The epiphanic mode, whether in early modernist novels or the traditional genre of the bildungsroman, has worked to provide an affirmative resolution to the struggles and journeys in the narrative. However, the epiphanic mode ultimately fails in the fiction of postwar America. The cult of adolescence has come to represent the fiction of this time; this essay examines two works by a prominent writer of this cult - J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Franny and Zooey", and the figure of the adolescent in these works. Bachelor of Arts 2014-04-24T02:55:28Z 2014-04-24T02:55:28Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59145 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf
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Melancholia, loss, and love : the failure of the epiphanic mode in Salinger’s the catcher in the rye and franny and zooey
description The epiphanic mode, whether in early modernist novels or the traditional genre of the bildungsroman, has worked to provide an affirmative resolution to the struggles and journeys in the narrative. However, the epiphanic mode ultimately fails in the fiction of postwar America. The cult of adolescence has come to represent the fiction of this time; this essay examines two works by a prominent writer of this cult - J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Franny and Zooey", and the figure of the adolescent in these works.
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title Melancholia, loss, and love : the failure of the epiphanic mode in Salinger’s the catcher in the rye and franny and zooey
title_short Melancholia, loss, and love : the failure of the epiphanic mode in Salinger’s the catcher in the rye and franny and zooey
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