Format:
xi, 385 Seiten
ISBN:
9781107165397
Series Statement:
American literature in transition
Content:
"American Literature in Transition captures the dynamic energies transmitted across the 20th- and 21st-century American literary landscapes. Revisionary and authoritative, the series offers a comprehensive new overview of the established literary landmarks that constitute American literary life. Ambitious in scope and depth, and accommodating new critical perspectives and approaches, this series captures the dynamic energies and ongoing change in 20th- and 21st- century American literature. These are decades of transition, but also periods of epochal upheaval. These decades - the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the sixties, 9/11 - are turning points of real significance. But in a tumultuous century, these terms can mask deeper structural changes. Each one of these books challenges in different ways the dominant approaches to a period of literature by shifting the focus from what happened to understanding how and why it happened. They elucidate the multifaceted interaction between the social and literary fields and capture that era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature up to the present moment. Taken together, this series of books constitutes a new kind of literary history in a century of intense cultural and literary creation, a century of liberation and also of immense destruction too. As a revisionary project grounded in pre-existing debates, American Literature in Transition offers an unprecedented analysis of the American literary"--
Content:
Poetry / Patricia Wallace -- The novel / Morris Dickstein -- Drama / David Krasner -- New journalism / Daniel Lehman -- Translation / Michael Collier -- Criticism and theory / David Wyatt -- Social thought / Philip Longo -- The literature of film / Robert P. Kolker -- Orations / Keith D. Miller and Joseph Kubiak -- Vietnam / Philip D. Beidler -- The secret world / Timothy Parrish -- The counterculture / Loren Glass -- The university / Fredrik deBoer -- Work / Christin Marie Taylor -- The suburbs / Randy Ontiveros -- The end of modernism / Al Filreis -- Civil rights / Valerie Sweeney Prince -- The new right / Angela S. Allan -- Women's liberation / Nancy J. Peterson -- Toward Stonewall / Octavio R. Gonzalez -- The greening / Robert Schultz -- Voices of color : first peoples / Catherine Rainwater -- Voices of color : later arrivals / Crystal Parikh -- The postmodern / John Hellmann -- Canon formation / Paul Lauter
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 366-368
In:
1960-1970
Language:
English
Keywords:
Geschichte 1960-1970
;
Englisch
;
USA
;
Literatur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
