American Literary Scholarship 1978


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Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.




American Literary Scholarship


Book Description

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.







Anthology of American Literature


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Represents the American literary works most respected by modern scholars. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. This book also emphasizes the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors. Extensive explanatory headnotes and footnotes link the works and authors of a period and provide readers with additional insights into each selection. New to this edition is an expanded presentation of Native American literature (myths, tales, autobiography, etc.).







International Who's Who in Poetry 2004


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Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.




Literary Trauma


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Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.




Encyclopedia of American Literature


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Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.




Francis Scott Fitzgerald : His Art and Vision


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Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s contribution to American fiction has to be judged keeping in mind that the naturalistic mimesis of the fiction of the earlier period is important as a critique of bourgeois society, but it ultimately fails in representing the problematic nature of bourgeois reality. The use of romance by Fitzgerald within mimetic realism is a logical culmination of the rise of the novel as it is. Through this use of romance he is able to adequately explore the bourgeois myth of man




The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature


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A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.