UID:
almafu_9959328614202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118329160
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1118329163
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9781118329153
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1118329155
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9781118329177
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1118329171
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9781118329146
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1118329147
Content:
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 centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics.
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A History of American Literature; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Locating Contemporary Literature; American Poetry During the 1950s; A. Poems of the Mind and the Body; B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School; American Theater During the 1950s; American Fiction During the 1950s; A. Fiction and the War; B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel; C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern; Chapter 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change; Theater of the 1960s; African American Writing in the 1960s; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers; Feminism.
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Chapter 3 Conventions and EruptionsPoetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years; Feminist Fictions; Postmodern Fictions; Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds; The New Journalism; Theater During the 1970s; Chapter 4 New Ages and Old; Memoir: Another New Direction; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style; Theater During the 1980s; Chapter 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change; Asian American Writing; Native American Writing; Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina); African American Writing; Poetry in the 1980s; Fiction in the 1980s; Chapter 6 The 1990s and the Sexual.
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Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal IssuesTheater of the 1990s; The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 7 The Twenty-First Century; The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath; Theater 2000-2010; Poetry 2000-2010; Memoir and Life-Writing 2000-2010; Fiction 2000-2010; References; Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wagner-Martin, Linda. History of American literature. Chichester, West Sussex : Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2013 ISBN 9781405192323
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118329146
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118329146
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118329146
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