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Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader to the essential history of the period including technology, religion, economy, class, gender and immigration. These contexts are woven of into discussions of many significant authors and texts from the period. Wagner-Martin brings her years of writing about American modernism to explicate poetry and drama as well as fiction and life-writing. Among the authors emphasized are Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, Mike Gold, James T. Farrell, Clifford Odets, John Steinbeck and countless others. A clear and engaging introduction to an exciting period of literature, this is the ultimate guide for those seeking an overview of American Modernism.

Download or read book A Brief History of American Literature written by Richard Gray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years Offers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard survey text Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States

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Download or read book Critical Essays on Lillian Hellman written by Mark W. Estrin and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Mark W. Estrin -- The dramaturgy of blackmail in the Ibsenite Hellman / Jacob H. Adler -- Miss Hellman's two sisters / Jacob H. Adler -- The autumn garden : mechanics and dialectics / Marvin Felheim -- The dramatic adaptations of Lillian Hellman / Doris Fleischer and Leonard Fleischer -- The lark, translation vs. adaptation : a case history / Henry W. Knepler -- "Good and evil" in Lillian Hellman's The children's hour / Philip M. Armato -- Bohemia bumps into Calvin : the deception of passivity in Lillian Hellman's drama / Mary Lynn Broe -- Lillian Hellman's American political theater : the thirties and beyond / Timothy J. Wiles -- Establishing the woman and constructing a narrative in Lillian Hellman's memoirs / Pamela S. Bromberg.

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Download or read book Outline of American Literature written by Kathryn Van Spanckeren and published by Orange Grove Texts Plus. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation. Contents: 1) Early American and Colonial Period to 1776. 2) Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820. 3) The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Essayists and Poets. 4) The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Fiction. 5) The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914. 6) Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945. 7) American Poetry, 1945-1990: The Anti-Tradition. 8) American Prose, 1945-1990: Realism and Experimentation. 9) Contemporary American Poetry. 10) Contemporary American Literature.

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