Blackwell Guides to Literature
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Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. * A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. * Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. * Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced. * Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich. * Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as 'The Waste Land', 'North & South', 'Howl' and 'Ariel'. * The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.
This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. * Provides extensive coverage of short stories and short story writers as well as novels and novelists * Discusses the cultural contexts and issues that shape the texts and their reputations * Wide-ranging in scope, including science fiction and recent Native American writing * Featured writers range from Henry James and Theodore Dresier to Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, and Sherman Alexie * Ideal student accompaniment to courses in Twentieth-Century American Literature or Fiction