عنوان

A history of American literature :

(Number (ISBN

1405192321 (cloth)

(Number (ISBN

9781405192323 (cloth)

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Title Proper

A history of American literature :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

1950 to the present /

First Statement of Responsibility

Linda Wagner-Martin.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Malden, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

John Wiley & Sons,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 393 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364) and index.

Text of Note

Locating Contemporary Literature. American Poetry During the 1950s ; Poems of the Mind and the Body ; The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School ; American Theater During the 1950s ; American Fiction During the 1950s ; Fiction and the War ; Class and Sexuality in the Novel ; The Novel, Jewish and Southern. -- The Sixties and the Necessities of Change. Theater of the 1960s ; African American Writing in the 1960s ; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers ; Feminism. -- Conventions and Eruptions. Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years ; Feminist Fictions ; Postmodern Fictions ; Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds ; The New Journalism ; Theater During the 1970s. -- New Ages and Old. Memoir: Another New Direction ; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style ;Theater During the 1980s. -- 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. -- The 1990s and the Sexual. Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues ; Theater 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. -- 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.

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Text of Note

"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. It covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels. This book features discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other topics."--Publisher's website.

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

American literature-- 21st century-- History and criticism.

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Book number

Wagner-Martin, Linda.

Date of Transaction

20140406180543.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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