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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... novel By 1820 America had produced nearly a hundred novels . Most of them were sentimentally moralistic , Gothic or purportedly historical tales , and nearly all were derivative . This is hardly surprising if by ' novel ' is meant prose ...
... novel By 1820 America had produced nearly a hundred novels . Most of them were sentimentally moralistic , Gothic or purportedly historical tales , and nearly all were derivative . This is hardly surprising if by ' novel ' is meant prose ...
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... novel Letters ( 1979 ) , in which Barth reviews his own literary past , reintroducing old characters and adding new ones over a time span of some 200 years . The method affords the ' Author ' an opportunity to reconsider America's past ...
... novel Letters ( 1979 ) , in which Barth reviews his own literary past , reintroducing old characters and adding new ones over a time span of some 200 years . The method affords the ' Author ' an opportunity to reconsider America's past ...
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... novel . Death would be boring too , no doubt , but you weren't required to pay attention . A cover blurb for ' The Smugglers of Lost Souls ' Rock ' commends it as ' A sick book , as sick and evil as life in America ' , and critical ...
... novel . Death would be boring too , no doubt , but you weren't required to pay attention . A cover blurb for ' The Smugglers of Lost Souls ' Rock ' commends it as ' A sick book , as sick and evil as life in America ' , and critical ...
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The colonies | 15 |
The revolution | 32 |
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