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	Great American Novel - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The "Great American Novel" is the concept of a novel that perfectly represents the spirit of life in the United States at the time of its publication.
		Although the title is not a formal award, it is considered to be a prestigious title for a novel, and is thus seen as a worthwhile goal for writers to attempt to achieve.
		When referring to first-time writers, many people state that their ultimate goal is to write "the Great American novel", illustrating again how it is a utopian, idealistic concept of perfection that is uttainable but is nonethlesss strived for by many.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Great_American_Novel (267 words)

	The Great American Novel
		The result is that the entire presentation of the Great American Novel discloses the social identity of the narrative environment (otherwise known as American culture and society) while the typical novel discloses only the identity of the circumstances necessary to carry the story’s plot forward.
		The Great American Novel therefore describes realistic characters as they seek to resolve the conflicts that they encounter in the representative social environment of the story; an environment that is insightfully reflective of the cultural reality of the nation in which we live.
		I believe that the myth that any novel labeled as a Great American Novel is boring, staid and overly cerebral is based on the erroneous comparison of such a novel to the typical “academic” novel which became the literary navigational beacon of the New York literary establishment.
	www.lawrencebuentello.com /id12.html (1789 words)

	What’s the next Great American Novel (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These novels do indeed present a lasting image of the “American experience,” which is why they’re still read today.
		The change in attitudes about the Great American Novel is a good way to gauge our feelings about the purpose of reading and our feelings about American society as a whole.
		To put it simply, the Great American Novel is important only so long as we define and place value judgments on literature.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=929 (713 words)

	Tips for Writing Fiction - The Writing Life
		While the Great American Novel comments on themes and presents a fresh worldview, the writer is deeply aware that his or her job is to entertain.
		The Great American Novel rewards the reader with each successive rereading and as he or she ages and experiences life, often finds the novel grows better with time.
		The Great American Novel and all well-written fiction, is built of such a realistic array of intimate details that the reader knows how the characters stock their refrigerators and cupboards, what their homes look and smell like, the protagonist's tastes, values and attitudes and how his or her pasts affects the front story and outcome.
	www.writing-life.com /fiction/gan.html (1096 words)

	Van Doren, Carl. 1921. The American Novel
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > Carl Van Doren > The American Novel
		This book is meant to serve as a chapter in the history of the American imagination.
		This historical treatment of the development of the “Great American Novel” expands upon Van Doren’s chapters on fiction in the Cambridge History of American Literature.
	www.bartleby.com /187 (84 words)

	Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection at Bartleby.com
		Salem, Mass., one of the great masters of American fiction.
		His novels and tales are penetrating explorations of moral and spiritual conflicts.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		Chapter by Carl Van Doren from the American Novel.
	www.bartleby.com /people/HawthornN.html (162 words)

	How To Write The Great American Novel: Words: Kate Schwartz: CenterstageChicago.com
		Though it may be a tad bit difficult to justify spending a mere $2 on that great new novel when you're hoping others will shell out $15 for yours, let's be realistic: Books are expensive, and generally too good to pass up.
		A novel will rarely set you back more than $5; on an average, you'll pay $3.
		You'll find classic and inventive takes on maki; the summer roll, a combination of tuna, yellowtail, green pepper, avocado, masago, cilantro, lime spicy mayo and chili oil, will have you dreaming of the warmer locations you'll be gallivanting to on your royalties.
	www.centerstagechicago.com /literature/articles/great-american-novel.html (1149 words)

	Great American Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All material on this website is copyrighted to Barbara Scott or the authors of the novels excerpted.
		Your query should include a brief pitch highlighting the theme of your novel, a 1-2 page outline of the complete work, and a summary of your writing experience.
		Novels should have a satisfying ending and language should be PG-13.
	home.earthlink.net /~greatamericannovel (371 words)

	Mediamatic.net - A late Great American Novel
		As a novel, Underworld is definitely riddled with clichés: from the baseball game to the space available of a lonely billboard, from J. Edgar Hoover to the female hippy artist who exhibits redundant aircraft, everything is depicted precisely as you would expect in an American novel.
		In Underworld, as with all his novels, the driving force is the genealogy of energy forms and structures.
		And thus we approach the novel's central space, where everything seems to be a coincidental combination of light and darkness, but which is, above all, a combination of solace and oblivion.
	www.mediamatic.net /article-5712-en.html (3586 words)

	rc3.org: The great American novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tyler Cowen argues that Moby Dick is the great American novel.
		Posted by: Rafe at February 10, 2006 3:35 PM Prompted by a novel I can no longer recall I read my infant daughters a chapter of "Moby Dick" every night until they were old enough to say, "No 'Moby Dick'".
		I would say that there are two candidates for The Greatest American Novel: Huck Finn, or the Whale.
	rc3.org /2006/02/the_great_american_novel.php (423 words)

	Salon Books \| Great American novelist
		Word was that "American Psycho" treated acts of torture with the same bland precision it used to describe the track-by-track progression of the latest Huey Lewis album.
		People loathed "American Psycho" and they wanted to kill its author, but lost in all the blood and guts was one important fact: Ellis was well on his way to being as great a novelist as any alive today.
		We add a novel or a poem or a play because it misbehaves so severely by existing standards that it demands a scale of its own -- one on which future works, previously unimaginable, can at last be built.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/01/cov_22feature.html (647 words)

	Three Great American Novel Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The closing line of the American National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” is: “the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” There are three American novels whose characters represent, to me, the epitome of the message of this song.
		Ultimately, Pearl achieves the American dream of wealth and position, because of the bravery and strength of spirit displayed by her mother her entire life.
		All three novels are worthy of the title of “the great American novel” based on the characters that Hawthorne, Steinbeck, and Walker created and which still hold a fascination for American readers today.
	www.gaylasgarden.com /novelcharacters.htm (959 words)

	The Great American Novel?
		Stowe is as acute a critic of the art of sinning as American literature, which is traditionally strong in the penitential line, has produced.
		Americans must learn to live by nothing less than the truth of the national promise of liberty and equality.
		What it means to be a Christian really occupies the core of the novel, and that question is indistinguishable from the racial question: People in the novel talk of little besides slavery and God, as though life has been effectively distilled to those two obsessive concerns.
	www.weeklystandard.com /content/public/articles/000/000/001/991hjmbb.asp?pg=2 (843 words)

	Quilldrivers \| The Great Latin American Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A fine example of the blending of history and myth (and the precise and sincere narrative tone in the novel) is the aftermath of the banana workers' strike.
		Indeed, the novel is multilayered, telling many stories of many characters often all at once, as if they coexisted all at once.
		Some of my favorite episodes in the novel are the trickle of blood (p.135), the shower of flowers (p.144), and the discovery of a monster or fallen angel or the Wandering Jew (p.349-50).
	www.quilldrivers.com /OHYS.html (2176 words)

	The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media
		He had originally hoped that journalism would help support him while he wrote novels, but after meeting and becoming friends with several novelists, he decided that he was not going to be a Fitzgerald or a Hemingway or a Dos Passos.
		It was the first historical overview of Nazi Germany for general readers, and it was published at a time when Americans who had lived through the war were ready to look back on what had happened.
		American Public Media is not responsible for the content of external links.
	writersalmanac.publicradio.org (700 words)

	Book Review: The Great American Novel - Phillip Roth
		In an apparent plot to destroy the American spirit the communists tried to discredit and destroy the game of baseball, which was thought by many to be the true American religion.
		The Mundys were at best a shadow of the great team they had once been, all of their great players having been sold off by the sons of the deceased owner Glorious Mundy, who had loved the game.
		Even the cities that once housed the eight great teams were tainted and chose to rename themselves than be affiliated with the Patriot league teams who once bore their names.
	www.athomeplate.com /gamnovel.shtml (980 words)

	The Great American Novel?
		Abraham Lincoln's famous welcome to Stowe when she came to the White House--"So this is the little lady who made this big war"--has the tang of country-boy ribbing, but it also recognizes the impact Stowe had on popular thought and sentiment about slavery.
		But it was to Americans in particular that Stowe directed her cannonade of fl pain and white failure.
		But the appeal of Scott's medieval fantasies was in part a revulsion against Stowe--a steeling of the Southerners' resolve to live as their fathers had done, which, in turn, convinced the Northerners that such a mode of life could not be tolerated in a nation founded on the principles of equality and freedom.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/991hjmbb.asp (602 words)

	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		The novel would prove to be Fitzgerald's most accomplished novel, and was an immediate critical success.
		Carraway is the only character in the novel to exhibit, and hold onto, a sense of morals and decency throughout the novel.
		My friend mentioned that in the Great Gatsby, one character (the narrator, maybe?) looked at two other chracters (Gatsby and Daisy, maybe?) and realized that the two characters were in love.
	www.online-literature.com /fitzgerald/greatgatsby (1056 words)

	A Brief Life of Fitzgerald
		Her autobiographical novel generated considerable bitterness between the Fitzgeralds, for he regarded it as pre-empting the material that he was using in his novel-in-progress.
		Published in 1934, his most ambitious novel was a commercial failure, and its merits were matters of critical dispute.
		The $91,000 he earned from MGM was a great deal of money during the late Depression years when a new Chevrolet coupe cost $619; but although Fitzgerald paid off most of his debts, he was unable to save.
	www.sc.edu /fitzgerald/biography.html (1789 words)

	Gary Mitchell's 'The Great American Novel' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not a novel - and written by an Englishman - 'The Great American Novel' consists of seven consecutive stories providing a lens on writers and the American condition.
		The final story, The Dream Of The Gunslinger, is set in a far future where the opulent late 20th century American lifestyle has become a touchstone for escapist fantasy in a world of brute exploitation and inequality.
		With variety and insight 'The Great American Novel' aims to be a challenging read at the end of the successful 'American Century' and the start of the uncertain 21st.
	homepages.tesco.net /mitchellsmith/gazgn.html (403 words)

	Cooper Revises the First Great American Novel
		Or, perhaps worse, fears that American readers would never warm to fiction written by fellow Americans as long as readers and critics had expectations defined exclusively by the received conventions of the mother country.
		Betty Flanagan's Irish Americanisms are elaborated upon, as is the colloquial speech of such figures as the fl slave Caesar, the New York rustic figures Katy Haynes and Sergeant Hollister, and the New England hero Harvey Birch.
		Thus Spy as an originary myth of American patriotism is the focal point at the beginning of the author's final view of what he had accomplished in his first great novel.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/ala/1990ala-schachterle.html (4902 words)

	Organizing your great American novel - Lifehacker
		For free novel-writing software, I prefer RoughDraft from http://www.rsalsbury.co.uk/rd.htm However, if writing novels is your bag baby (sorry for the Austin Power's voiceover), Liquid Story Binder from http://www.flobelisksoftware.com/ is the cat's meow.
		It uses rich text format instead of plain text and the user interface is more refined and less "techy." If you can afford $50, I would recommend Liquid Story Binder from http://www.flobelisksoftware.com/ It has more features than I have had time to investigate, is highly customizable, and runs off a USB flash drive.
		It has a lot of great ideas, but I thought it was way to complicated-- something that takes away from the spontenaity of writing.
	www.lifehacker.com /software/writing/organizing-your-great-american-novel-176007.php (641 words)

	THE LAST WORD; The Paranoid States of America - New York Times
		Picking candidates for the Great American Novel may be a fool's game, but it's hard to resist.
		(Wright has been working on a fourth novel for over a decade now.) ''Meditations in Green'' (1983), his first novel (the Vintage edition came out last summer), is a fever dream of the Vietnam War in which a soldier becomes convinced that the real enemy is the vegetable kingdom itself.
		''M31,'' Wright's second novel, is about American family life, a condition toward which his characters are drawn as if by gravity, only to be tortured by it to the point of madness and beyond.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D9133CF934A35750C0A9629C8B63 (630 words)

	Please Read the Great American Novel -- America's Future -- Week of August 3, 1998
		We hate to disappoint all those ambitious authors, but we're afraid they're going to have to set their sights a little lower, because the fact is that the great American novel has already been written.
		Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind IS the great American novel, and would undoubtedly be acknowledged as such, were it not so thoroughly American.
		Margaret Mitchell may not have set out to write the great American novel, but she certainly chose the essential historical backdrop for it.
	www.americasfuture.net /1998/aug98/98-0803a.html (473 words)

	Marginal Revolution: The Great American Novel -- my pick
		In fact, as the great Hunter says, the mere skeleton of the whale bears the same relation to the fully invested and padded animal as the insect does to the chrysalis that so roundingly envelopes it.
		The Great Gatsby -- for Fitzgerald's formal mastery, its opulent and moving poetic language, capturing the American romantic yearning for self-invention, and the shattering of the American Dream at the height of the "orgiastic" 1920's.
		Posted by: Anderson at Feb 13, 2006 6:30:48 PM I think it's sad that so many of our "great" novels are deeply steeped in a race relations theme/background.
	www.marginalrevolution.com /marginalrevolution/2006/02/moby_dick_the_g.html (3271 words)

	JS Online: Homegrown classics
		One of the themes in our great novels, I added, is the theme of a frontier, of struggling with something, of a quest, a journey.
		But when I reflected - in that cab mired in Manhattan traffic - about some of my favorite novels, I realized that the preoccupations of the American novel, the threads and themes, are indeed American; they are the same preoccupations of the young country, they mirror the same dangers, the same longings.
		But also because in today's kingdom of the American novel - a fractured land of potentially great novels and meritless bestsellers, and solid, serviceable novels and shaky, brainless ones - it helps to remember the great novels that have paved the way, that are our cultural and literary heritage, that influence our best writers.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/may03/142809.asp (1428 words)

	The Great American Novel Cartoons
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	Success and the Great American Novel By Jena Ball
		Great American novels are generally lived before they are written, and I had no way to support myself while I was busy accumulating life experience.
		It was while researching and writing the class that I finally learned the skills I needed to land assignments at American publications, and realized how important teaching was to my growth as a writer.
		Since then she has been gathering material for the great American novel, and pursuing interests in everything from dressage and classical music to web design and the healing arts.
	www.writersweekly.com /success_stories/001951_08252004.html (816 words)

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