A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 587 similar forms of entrapment in a series of postmodern detective stories set in a ...

588 The American Century: Literature since 1945 intimations of empty immensity, the denial of human value and distinction. There ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 589 of the United States and her home state of Mississippi in particular. Some of he ...

590 The American Century: Literature since 1945 humor, describes people waging a disgracefully unequal struggle with circumstanc ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 591 essays, Mystery and Manners (1969), “have been those of being Southern and being ...

592 The American Century: Literature since 1945 seen with an untamed and alien eye. Where she parts company with most other writ ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 593 Golden Eye (1941), The Member of the Wedding (1946), and Clock Without Hands (19 ...

594 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Carroll. Childwold (1976) is a lyrical portrait of the artist as a young woman. ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 595 The Accidental Tourist (1985), Breathing Lessons (1988), and Digging to America ...

596 The American Century: Literature since 1945 (particularly mother to daughter), talking to themselves (particularly in dream ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 597 she calls in one of her books “the circle of my consciousness.” Her writings, fi ...

598 The American Century: Literature since 1945 (1935–) is that it refuses to accommodate the West to these notions of liberator ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 599 idealize the family, it does suggest that coming to know one’s family, even dist ...

600 The American Century: Literature since 1945 particle” in this form, or rather field, would be the syllable, “the king and pi ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 601 flow. Nor does the flow end with the nominal end of the poem: as the last line, ...

602 The American Century: Literature since 1945 poets who shared at least some of his aims. They and a few others found an outle ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 603 other kinds of horror. For him, in effect, the poem is not an act of communion b ...

604 The American Century: Literature since 1945 spontaneity (“To Bobbie”): above all, a willingness to follow the peculiar shape ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 605 alertness of perception and precision of speech to a new extreme. In between, he ...

606 The American Century: Literature since 1945 his verse: with the result that what the reader sees, ideally, is “no first stra ...