Linda Wagner-Martin

A History of American Literature (eBook, PDF)

1950 to the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

* The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century * Covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels * Features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118329177
• Artikelnr.: 37349166

Autorenporträt

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor ofEnglish and Comparative Literature at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is the recipient of Guggenheim,Rockefeller, Bunting Institute, and other fellowships, as well asholding the Hubbell Medal for American Literature. She writeswidely on twentieth-century American literature, biography, women'swriting, and pedagogy. Her publications include "FavoredStrangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), The OxfordCompanion to Women's Writing in the United States and itsanthology(1995), Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life(1999/2003), Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (2004), EmilyDickinson, A Literary Life (2013) Barbara Kingsolver'sWorld: Nature, Art and the 21st Century (2014) and ToniMorrison and the Maternal, from the Bluest Eye to Home, 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix Preface xi 1 Locating Contemporary Literature 1 American Poetry During the 1950s 13 A. Poems of the Mind and the Body 13 B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School19 American Theater During the 1950s 25 American Fiction During the 1950s 28 A. Fiction and the War 28 B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32 C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern 38 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change 47 Theater of the 1960s 53 African American Writing in the 1960s 58 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers 69 Feminism 74 3 Conventions and Eruptions 79 Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years 81 Feminist Fictions 90 Postmodern Fictions 101 Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112 The New Journalism 123 Theater During the 1970s 129 4 New Ages and Old 139 Memoir: Another New Direction 142 Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150 Theater During the 1980s 168 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change 175 Asian American Writing 178 Native American Writing 183 Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina) 189 African American Writing 194 Poetry in the 1980s 203 Fiction in the 1980s 214 6 The 1990s and the Sexual 225 Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues 227 Theater of the 1990s 235 The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 242 Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 250 Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century260 7 The Twenty-First Century 277 The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath 286 Theater 2000-2010 307 Poetry 2000-2010 311 Memoir and Life-Writing 2000-2010 319 Fiction 2000-2010 326 References 353 Index 365

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Illustrations ix Preface xi 1 Locating Contemporary Literature 1 American
Poetry During the 1950s 13 A. Poems of the Mind and the Body 13 B. The
Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School 19 American Theater
During the 1950s 25 American Fiction During the 1950s 28 A. Fiction and the
War 28 B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32 C. The Novel, Jewish and
Southern 38 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change 47 Theater of the
1960s 53 African American Writing in the 1960s 58 1960s Fiction, Mainstream
Markers 69 Feminism 74 3 Conventions and Eruptions 79 Poetry of the
Anti-War and Feminist Years 81 Feminist Fictions 90 Postmodern Fictions 101
Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112 The New Journalism 123 Theater
During the 1970s 129 4 New Ages and Old 139 Memoir: Another New Direction
142 Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150 Theater During the
1980s 168 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change 175 Asian American Writing 178
Native American Writing 183 Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina)
189 African American Writing 194 Poetry in the 1980s 203 Fiction in the
1980s 214 6 The 1990s and the Sexual 225 Sexual Preferences and
Social/Legal Issues 227 Theater of the 1990s 235 The Poem at the Turn into
the Twenty-First Century 242 Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First
Century 250 Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century
260 7 The Twenty-First Century 277 The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath 286
Theater 2000-2010 307 Poetry 2000-2010 311 Memoir and Life-Writing
2000-2010 319 Fiction 2000-2010 326 References 353 Index 365

Rezensionen

"This commendable handbook should stimulate renewed debate on the canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 September 2013)