Hereditary misery: The dysfunctional family and multigenerational transmission in Jonathan Franzen's &quote;The Corrections&quote; and Cynthia Shearer's &quote;The Wonder Book of the Air&quote;

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut fur England- und Amerikastudien), course: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Southern Literature, language: English, abstract: In times of the decline of the family as a social parameter we witness an unquestionable popularity of the family novel in American literatu...