A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 567 Sharon Olds (1942–), Olga Broumas (1949–), Kimiko Hahn (1955–), and Li-Young Lee ...

568 The American Century: Literature since 1945 writers. So, too, could an equally simple, seminal declaration made by Lee – “Yo ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 569 For Mailer himself, the American history that mattered for him personally began ...

570 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Mailer wrote his own war novel, The Naked and the Dead (1948), he said, as “a pa ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 571 much of it is taken up with the account of a larger-than-life hunting trip which ...

572 The American Century: Literature since 1945 perspective. But it offers a radical and essentially unorthodox reading of the c ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 573 stronger in the work of Peter De Vries (1910–1993), many of whose works, like Th ...

574 The American Century: Literature since 1945 symbolically significant man who settles in a Ohio River town; In the Heart of t ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 575 Significantly, these books on old Western themes came after McMurtry himself cal ...

576 The American Century: Literature since 1945 at least of the old America to which he has tried to return. But it is, he recog ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 577 novel, is about an Italian-American called Frank Alpine who becomes an assistant ...

578 The American Century: Literature since 1945 capacity to feel or do can really have dwindled or that the quality of humanity ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 579 he is confined. “I know this double power,” another character tells Augie, “that ...

580 The American Century: Literature since 1945 the most revelatory explorations into a problem that has haunted America, and so ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 581 One condition for beginning, or being able to think about doing so, is some meas ...

582 The American Century: Literature since 1945 to reflect selfhood and nationhood. Much of the finest of this later fiction con ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 583 creation inconceivable to man, earth the creation conceivable to him,” Barth obs ...

584 The American Century: Literature since 1945 resonance to what might seem to be the fleeting contingencies of his suburban se ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 585 Long before this scene, which concludes Rabbit At Rest, at the end of the first ...

586 The American Century: Literature since 1945 range of disguises. DeLillo is concerned here and elsewhere in his fiction, not ...