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

• Main Author: Lim, Yan Sin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59145
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...