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White man's guide to white male writers of the Western canon, Dana Schwartz ; illustrated by Jason Adam Katzenstein

eng

Includes bibliographical references

contains biographical information

chartsillustrations

no index present

humor satires etc

White man's guide to white male writers of the Western canon

bibliography

Dana Schwartz ; illustrated by Jason Adam Katzenstein

"How can you tell your Faulkner from your Franzen if you haven't actually read either? Schwartz expounds on the most important (aka white male) writers of western literature. From Shakespeare's greatest mystery to the true meaning of Kafkaesque, she tests your knowledge of which Jonathan-- Franzen, Lethem, or Safran Foer-- hates Twitter and lives in Brooklyn. So instead of politely nodding along next time you make an acquaintance at a housewarming party in Brooklyn, you can roll up your sleeves and get to work schooling them in character arcs and the experimental form of your next great American novel." -- Adapted from back cover

White male writers. William Shakespeare ; John Milton ; Samuel Johnson ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Lord Byron ; Charles Dickens ; Henry David Thoreau ; Leo Tolstoy ; Henry James ; James Joyce ; Franz Kafka ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; William Faulkner ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Ernest Hemingway ; John Steinbeck ; John Cheever ; Saul Bellow ; J.D. Salinger ; Charles Bukowski ; Jack Kerouac ; Kurt Vonnegut ; Norman Mailer ; John Updike ; Philip Roth ; Cormac McCarthy ; Don DeLillo ; Thomas Pynchon ; Raymond Carver ; David Foster Wallace ; Bret Easton Ellis ; The Jonathans [Franzen, Lethem, Safran Foer] -- Afterword -- The white man's guide to white male writers of the Western canon reading list

adult