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

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Caliban’s Gait: The Postcolonial “Progress” of American Exploratory Poetics in William Carlos Williams’ The Great American Novel by Zachary Finch

“…Lawrence en 1923 dans l’introduction de ses Studies in Classic American Literature, l’année où William Carlos Williams, de son côté, publiait The Great American Novel, anti-roman iconoclaste qui rejetait la notion de “progression” narrative en faveur de ce que Michel de Certeau aurait appelé “la tactique de la pratique”. …”
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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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