The Literature of the United States of AmericaAmerican literature over the last four hundred years has developed distinctive qualities and traditions, partly engendered by the land itself. The rich variety of literature flourished as the land was colonised and cultivated. In this new edition Marshall Walker has updated his wide-ranging study of American literature by giving greater attention to poets from Hart Crane and e.e. Cummings to John Ashbery and A.R. Ammons and to novelists from William Burroughs and Kurt Vonnegut to John Irving. More space is given to drama, from the later works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller to the plays of Sam Shepard and David Mamet. The special concerns of Black, Jewish and Women writers are explored as this book demonstrates that American literary history can no longer be considered largely in terms of regional dominances. |
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Page 134
... language is evident early in Eliot's career . A 1920 essay on Swinburne urges respect for language that struggles ' to digest and express new objects , new groups of objects , new feelings , new aspects ' ; and in 1921 he admires the ...
... language is evident early in Eliot's career . A 1920 essay on Swinburne urges respect for language that struggles ' to digest and express new objects , new groups of objects , new feelings , new aspects ' ; and in 1921 he admires the ...
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... Language ( 1978 ) she acknowledges her dependence on language - ' writing words like these , I'm also living ' - but admits that in the harsh world of Olson's ' Polis ' metaphoric language can be a soft option too easily preferred to ...
... Language ( 1978 ) she acknowledges her dependence on language - ' writing words like these , I'm also living ' - but admits that in the harsh world of Olson's ' Polis ' metaphoric language can be a soft option too easily preferred to ...
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... language of Tiny Alice ( 1964 ) is almost hypnotic enough to deflect irritation with its metaphysical pretentiousness . The relationship between reality and the tiny scale model of Miss Alice's mansion in which Brother Julian eventually ...
... language of Tiny Alice ( 1964 ) is almost hypnotic enough to deflect irritation with its metaphysical pretentiousness . The relationship between reality and the tiny scale model of Miss Alice's mansion in which Brother Julian eventually ...
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Terms of a tradition | 1 |
The colonies | 15 |
The revolution | 32 |
Copyright | |
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