The Cambridge History of American Literature - 7: Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, - 1940 199

Klappentext This volume covers prose writing from 1940 to 1995. Zusammenfassung Volume VII examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century! revealing complex relations to changes in society. Topics include: American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson; fiction from 1940 to 1970; writers of the American South; postmodern fictions; Native American! Asian American! Chicano! gay and lesbian writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The drama from 1940-1990 Christopher Bigsby; 2. Fiction and society Morris Dickstein; 3. After the Southern Renaissance John Burt; 4. Postmodern fictions, 1970-1990 Wendy Steiner; 5. Emergent literatures Cyrus R. K. Patell.

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• Authors: Sacvan Bercovitch, Sacvan (Harvard University Bercovitch
• Assisted by: Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor), Sacvan (Harvard University Bercovitch (Editor), Bercovitch Sacvan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.1999
• EAN: 9780521497329
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49732-9
• No. of pages: 800
• Sets: The Cambridge History of American Literature; The Cambridge History of American Literature
• Series: Cambridge History of American; The Cambridge History of American Literature; The Cambridge History of American Literature; Cambridge History of American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000