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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... remains substantially his , despite revisions by the committee appointed to draft it and further emendations by Congress . However questionable philosophically , Jefferson's central assertion is the idea of America which expresses the ...
... remains substantially his , despite revisions by the committee appointed to draft it and further emendations by Congress . However questionable philosophically , Jefferson's central assertion is the idea of America which expresses the ...
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... remains unrecognised , unidentifiable by eyes not in a state of grace . The land , therefore , remains waste . The alienation of man from religious and moral value is often expressed in Eliot's work by an ironic juxtaposition of past ...
... remains unrecognised , unidentifiable by eyes not in a state of grace . The land , therefore , remains waste . The alienation of man from religious and moral value is often expressed in Eliot's work by an ironic juxtaposition of past ...
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... remains invisible as a man . A Harlem riot shows him that he must contend against both whites and Blacks who seek to exploit him for their own political ends . The Negro in Invisible Man thus becomes a Black American Everyman . Ellison ...
... remains invisible as a man . A Harlem riot shows him that he must contend against both whites and Blacks who seek to exploit him for their own political ends . The Negro in Invisible Man thus becomes a Black American Everyman . Ellison ...
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Terms of a tradition | 1 |
The colonies | 15 |
The revolution | 32 |
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