A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 527 culture survived well into the next decade; and some, like the feminist and ecol ...

528 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Along with them the great narratives, the metanarratives used once to explain hi ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 529 has become “the first universal nation.” Along with immigrants from the Hispanic ...

530 The American Century: Literature since 1945 continued belief, at least in some quarters, in the special destiny of America, ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 531 For others, particularly many women writers and writers from “ethnic” or “nonwhi ...

532 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Formalists and Confessionals From the mythological eye to the lonely “I” in poet ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 533 As he presents it, war makes life more “real” – in the sense that it brings peop ...

534 The American Century: Literature since 1945 of birth, death, and renewal, departure and return, and it deals with them in te ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 535 I’m writing this poem for someone to see when I’m not looking. This is an open b ...

536 The American Century: Literature since 1945 “Be guilty of yourself in the full looking glass,” a poet of a slightly earlier ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 537 off the “sticky infusion” of speech and becomes one with the natural world (“The ...

538 The American Century: Literature since 1945 the currency of the West has, in fact, saved him from moral bankruptcy, helped h ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 539 or whatever, but because they image the poet’s inner world, his personal feeling ...

540 The American Century: Literature since 1945 “I came to explore the wreck,” she says: “The words are purposes. / The words ar ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 541 freer verse forms. Not everyone ceased to be a formalist. Nor did those who chan ...

542 The American Century: Literature since 1945 that “I” is, Schwartz finds it necessary to deal with the accumulated debts of h ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 543 as it may appear at first sight, a desire for impersonality or anonymity, but fo ...

544 The American Century: Literature since 1945 the strength and simplicity of idiom of Edgar Lee Masters, but without Masters’s ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 545 character of things. The organisms he creates must respond to life as particular ...

546 The American Century: Literature since 1945 and “minority” communities and cultures. There are many others. Two further issu ...