American Literature From 1945 Through Today

Author : Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615301331

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American Literature from 1945 Through Today by Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature Pdf

Explores the works and writers from post World War II America to today, including Stephen Crane, Arthur Miller, and Allen Ginsberg.

Author : Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615301324

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American Literature from the 1850s to 1945 by Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature Pdf

Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the American literary canon from the end of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentith.

Author : Karen Meyers,Erik V. R. Rangno
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781604134896

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Contemporary American Literature (1945-present) by Karen Meyers,Erik V. R. Rangno Pdf

Focusing on a variety of topics, from the violence of war and the struggle for civil rights to the social impact of technology and the moral significance of money, this colorfully illustrated guide to American literature from the postwar period to the present day has been expanded and fully updated. A new section titled "Into the Future" contains a discussion of the best young writers of recent years. A concise, engaging guide to American contemporary literature, this volume provides information on 21st-century writers; the 1950s, '60s, and beyond; contemporary American poetry; and the postmodern movement. Topics include: Post-World War II and Vietnam War literature New Journalism Beat literature and existentialism The rise of ethnic and minority literature The civil rights movement Postmodernism Confessional poetry and poetry of witness Millennial voices in fiction And more. Writers covered include: Raymond Carver Sandra Cisneros Ralph Ellison Robert Frost Norman Mailer N. Scott Momaday Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath Thomas Pynchon Adrienne Rich J.D. Salinger Kurt Vonnegut Tom Wolfe And many others.

Author : Baym, Nina,Levine, Robert S
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393913422

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The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Baym, Nina,Levine, Robert S Pdf

The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instructors teach the course they want to teach.

Author : Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615301249

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American Literature from 1600 Through the 1850s by Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature Pdf

Traces the progress of the written word as America was evolving as a nation.

Author : Amy Berke,Robert Bleil,Jordan Cofer,Doug Davis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547683889

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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present by Amy Berke,Robert Bleil,Jordan Cofer,Doug Davis Pdf

Writing the Nation displays key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature. Contents: Late Romanticism (1855-1870) Realism (1865-1890) Local Color (1865-1885) Regionalism (1875-1895) William Dean Howells Ambrose Bierce Henry James Sarah Orne Jewett Kate Chopin Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles Waddell Chesnutt Charlotte Perkins Gilman Naturalism (1890-1914) Frank Norris Stephen Crane Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 - 1914) Booker T. Washington Zane Grey Modernism (1914 - 1945) The Great War Une Generation Perdue... (a Lost Generation) A Modern Nation Technology Modernist Literature Further Reading: Additional Secondary Sources Robert Frost Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound Marianne Moore T. S. Eliot Edna St. Vincent Millay E. E. Cummings F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Arthur Miller Southern Renaissance – First Wave Ellen Glasgow William Faulkner Eudora Alice Welty The Harlem Renaissance Jessie Redmon Fauset Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Langston Hughes Countee Cullen Jean Toomer American Literature Since 1945 (1945 - Present) Southern Literary Renaissance - Second Wave (1945-1965) The Cold War and the Southern Literary Renaissance Economic Prosperity The Civil Rights Movement in the South New Criticism and the Rise of the MFA Program Innovation Tennessee Williams James Dickey Flannery O'Connor Postmodernism Theodore Roethke Ralph Ellison James Baldwin Allen Ginsberg Adrienne Rich Toni Morrison Donald Barthelme Sylvia Plath Don Delillo Alice Walker Leslie Marmon Silko David Foster Wallace

Author : Michael W. Clune
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521513999

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American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000 by Michael W. Clune Pdf

This book considers the fascination with the free market and the economic world evident within postwar literature.

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136596490

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Jewish American Literature since 1945 by Stephen Wade Pdf

Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish American Literature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works, and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. The theoretical underpinnings of the literature--including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction--are also introduced in an accessible form. The themes, issues and philosophies of key writers such as Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related, and wider literary and historical topics are explained.

Author : Bryan M. Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108832656

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Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism by Bryan M. Santin Pdf

Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314

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The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 by John N. Duvall Pdf

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

Author : J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615301058

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The Literature of Spain and Latin America by J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature Pdf

Provides an understanding of the events and cultural differences shaping these nations' texts, the lives of their writers, and the impact of Spanish and Latin American literature.

Author : John Cusatis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : OCLC:748362312

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Research Guide to American Literature by John Cusatis Pdf

Author : Roger Lathbury,Jerry Phillips,Associate Professor of English Michael Anesko,Michael Anesko,Patricia Linehan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438134185

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American Modernism (1910-1945) by Roger Lathbury,Jerry Phillips,Associate Professor of English Michael Anesko,Michael Anesko,Patricia Linehan Pdf

A guide to the modernist movement in American literature, with information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and drama, and the literary culture of the Moderns.

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023150103X

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The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 by Guiyou Huang Pdf

The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945

Author : Jennifer Ashton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521766951

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The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton Pdf

Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.