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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard John Gray |
| ISBN: | 9780631221357 0631221352 9780631221340 0631221344 |
| OCLC Number: | 552039042 |
| Notes: | Literaturverz. S. 818 - 844. |
| Description: | XII, 899 Seiten ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | PART I: The First Americans: American Literature Before And During The Colonial And Revolutionary Periods:1. Imagining Eden2. Native American Oral Traditions3. Spanish And French Encounters With America4. Anglo-American Encounters5. Writing Of The Colonial And Revolutionary Periods:Puritan narrativesChallenges to the Puritan oligarchySome Colonial poetryEnemies within and withoutTrends towards the secular and resistanceTowards the RevolutionAlternative voices of RevolutionWriting Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction PART II: Inventing Americas: The Making Of American Literature 1800-1865:6. Making a Nation7. The Making Of American Myths:Myths of an emerging nationThe making of Western mythThe making of Southern mythLegends of the Old Southwest8. The Making Of American Selves:The TranscendentalistsVoices of African American identity9. The Making Of Many Americas:Native American writingOral culture of the Hispanic SouthwestAfrican American polemic and poetryAbolitionist and pro-slavery writingAbolitionism and feminismAfrican American writing9. The Making Of American Fiction And Poetry:The emergence of American narrativesWomen writers and storytellersSpirituals and folk songsAmerican poetic voices PART III: Reconstructing The Past, Reimagining The Future: The Development Of American Literature 1865-1900:10. Rebuilding a Nation11. The Development Of Literary Regionalisms:From Adam to outsiderRegionalism in the West and MidwestAfrican American and Native American voicesRegionalism in New EnglandRegionalism in the South12. The Development Of Literary Realism And Naturalism:Capturing the commonplaceCapturing the real thingTowards naturalism13. The Development Of Women's Writing:Writing by African American womenWriting and the condition of women14. The Development Of Many Americas:Things fall apartVoices of resistanceVoices of reformThe immigrant encounter PART IV: Making It New: The Emergence Of Modern American Literature 1900-1945:15. Changing National Identities16. Between Victorianism And Modernism:The problem of raceBuilding bridges: Women writersCritiques of American provincial lifePoetry and the search for form17. The Inventions Of Modernism:Imagism, Vorticism and ObjectivismMaking it new in poetryMaking it new in proseMaking it new in drama18. Traditionalism, Politics And Prophecy:The uses of traditionalismPopulism and radicalismProphetic voices19. Community and Identity:Immigrant writingNative American voicesThe literature of the New Negro movement and beyond20. Mass Culture And The Writer:Western, detective and hardboiled fictionHumorous writingFiction and popular culture PART V: Negotiating The American Century: American Literature Since 1945:21. Towards a Transnational Nation22. Formalists And Confessionals:From the mythological eye to the lonely 'I' in poetryFrom formalism to freedom in poetryThe uses of formalismConfessional poetryNew formalists, new confessionals23. Public and Private Histories:Documentary and dream in proseContested identities in proseCrossing borders: Some women prose writers24. Beats, Prophets And Aesthetes:Rediscovering the American voice: The Black Mountain writersRestoring the American vision: The San Francisco renaissanceRecreating American rhythms: The beat generationReinventing the American self: The New York poetsResisting orthodoxy: Dissent and experiment in fiction25. The Art And Politics Of Race:Defining a new black aestheticDefining a new black identity in proseDefining a new black identity in dramaTelling impossible stories: Recent African American fiction26. Realism And Its Discontents:Confronting the real, stretching the realistic in dramaNew Journalists and dirty realists27. Language And GenreWatching nothing: Postmodernity in proseThe actuality of words: Postmodern poetrySigns and scenes of crime, science fiction and fantasy28. Creating New Americas:Dreaming history: European immigrant writingRemapping a nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a writingImprovising America: Asian American writingNew and ancient songs: The return of the Native AmericanFurther ReadingIndex |
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"Richard Gray's real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers." Literary Review "Highly readable, jargon-free, and engaging." American Literary Scholarship "This book is the first comprehensive, single volume history of American literature since The Columbia Literary History of the United States edited by Elliott Emory and published sixteen years ago. It is a puzzle, given the extraordinary interest in American literature at home and abroad, that so few full histories of American literature have been published. Consider the fact that the Columbia history arrived nearly four decades after R. E. Spiller's Literary History of the United States. What makes Gray's book so extraordinary is that it supercedes the Spiller and Emory texts in nearly every respect, and even challenges the supremacy of the titanic (this pun is intentional), multi-volume, still-evolving Cambridge History of American Literature. How Gray managed to so captivatingly capture the depth and breadth of so complex a literature in under a thousand pages is worth considering. [...] Richard Gray possesses the most balanced scholarship of the entire range of American literature I ever read. [...] This is the first history of American literature fully worthy of the multi-dimensionality of its subject." Norman Weinstein, Boise State University Read more...
