American literature since 1900
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American literature since 1900
（The Penguin history of literature, v. 9）
Penguin, 1993
Available at 13 libraries
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Originally published: [London] : Sphere Books, 1975
Bibliography: p. [401]-458
Includes index
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Description
The new Modernist thought from Europe started to penetrate American life with remarkable speed. Malcolm Bradbury opens with an account of American fiction and poetry over the first 20 years of this century, contrasting the naturalism of Theodore Dreiser with the experimentalism of Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Dennis Welland discusses the literature of the inter-war years, dominated by the writing of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Moving through the next decades to the new post modern forms of the late 1960s onwards, Jerome Klinkowitz considers writers as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey and Philip Roth. There are sections on American poetry and a chapter on American theatre in which the work of America's first great dramatist, Eugene O'Neill, is assessed. "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature in ten volumes. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned for the series, which, taken together, cover 14 centuries of literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
Table of Contents
- The American risorgimento - the United States and the coming of the new arts, Malcolm Bradbury
- the language of American fiction between the wars, Dennis Welland
- American theatre - the age of O'Neill, David Morse
- American poetry and the English language, 1900-1945, Geoffrey Moore
- poetry 1945-60 - self versus culture, Aleksandar Nejgebauer
- literary criticism to 1965, Marshall Van Deusen
- William Faulkner and the southern renascence, Ursula Brumm
- American theatre since 1945, Irving Wardle
- American poetry, poetics and poetic movements since 1950, Eric Mottram
- a remnant to escape - the American writer and the minority group, Arnold Goldman
- literary criticism since 1965, Jean-Pierre Mileur
- cross the border - close that gap - post-modernism, Leslie A. Fiedler
- the new fiction, Jerome Klinkowitz
- literature and society, Marcus Cunliffe.
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