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 59
... present in which the word of old ' Still floats upon the morning wind , / Still whispers to the willing mind ' . The scholar must be ' Man Thinking ' in the present , pushing beyond convention and institution to learn directly from life ...
... present in which the word of old ' Still floats upon the morning wind , / Still whispers to the willing mind ' . The scholar must be ' Man Thinking ' in the present , pushing beyond convention and institution to learn directly from life ...
Page 137
... present . At the beginning of ' The Fire Sermon ' the line from Spenser's ' Prothalamion ' - ' Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song ' – makes an ironic comparison between Spenser's bridal ceremony and the promiscuity of modern ...
... present . At the beginning of ' The Fire Sermon ' the line from Spenser's ' Prothalamion ' - ' Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song ' – makes an ironic comparison between Spenser's bridal ceremony and the promiscuity of modern ...
Page 147
... present pouring down : / the roar , the roar of the present ' ( Paterson , Book 3 ) . The two poets have little else in common . ' The real is only the base ' , says Stevens in ' Adagia ' , ' But it is the base ' . To be valuable ...
... present pouring down : / the roar , the roar of the present ' ( Paterson , Book 3 ) . The two poets have little else in common . ' The real is only the base ' , says Stevens in ' Adagia ' , ' But it is the base ' . To be valuable ...
Contents
Terms of a tradition | 1 |
The colonies | 15 |
The revolution | 32 |
Copyright | |
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