Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Faraway Country: Writers of the Modern South (1963). Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South (1978). Rubin, Louis D., Jr., A Gallery of Southerners (1982). Rubin, Louis D., Jr., ...
This is literary criticism at its best-informed: broad-ranged yet pungent and uncompromising.
A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day....
In spite of this, Gothic dreams of suppressed shameful passions continued to haunt his 'realistic' novel writing . As Charles Crow points out, his novella The Shadow of a Dream (1890) was published simultaneously with his principal ...
Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary ...
... 101–102 Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844–1906), Austrian physicist, 90 Bontemps, Arna (1902–1973), critic, editor, and novelist, 46 Father ofthe Blues, 63 Cain, James M. (1892–1977), novelist and journalist, 143–145 Postman Always 210 INDEX C.
Adventures in American Literature
'Lawrence Asserted That 'The Proper Function Of A Critic Is To Save The Tale From The Artist Who Created It' In These Highly Individual, Penetrating Essays He Has Exposed 'The American Whole Soul' Within Some Of That Continent'S Major Works ...
An account of the literature of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this book examines the origins of colonial Latin American literature in Spanish, the writings and relationships among ...
Available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the 7th Edition offers thematic groupings, called "In Focus," to stimulate classroom discussions and showcase the treatment of important topics across the genres.