A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 627 the breaking aircraft, “Out of their names,” the poet inscribes God on “the livi ...

628 The American Century: Literature since 1945 much of a hybrid as its author evidently feels himself to be. Campo similarly se ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 629 Liethauser, as “ ‘Rabbits: A Valentine” illustrates, is deeply interested in the ...

630 The American Century: Literature since 1945 this and many other of these poetic journeys. Elsewhere in his poetry, Gioia tur ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 631 Sicilian custom of celebrating a first son’s birth by planting a fig or olive tr ...

632 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac in Massachusetts. After a Catholic upbr ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 633 deserves). And the experience that interests author and narrator here, above all ...

634 The American Century: Literature since 1945 of being freed from all conditioning forces is The Naked Lunch. An intense rende ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 635 all systems and verbal ones in particular, took several forms. Like Pound, he be ...

636 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Western society and in particular America, as one “rotting away, dying piecemeal ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 637 to collect, before World War II. His first book, however, and his most famous, w ...

638 The American Century: Literature since 1945 his life make clear, he is not entirely sure what the truth about himself and hi ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 639 in a mental hospital. This provided him with the material for his first and easi ...

640 The American Century: Literature since 1945 action and the rebel in vision, the bond between two men, the woman as a threate ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 641 Toni Cade turned to her own ancestors first, adding her grandmother’s name, Bamb ...

642 The American Century: Literature since 1945 and the audience/chorus dance, shout, and sing in response to the nervous fire o ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 643 “There must not be any preconceived design for what the poem ought to be.” “The ...

644 The American Century: Literature since 1945 systems. Plays such as S-1 (1974) and The Motion of History (1977) testify to th ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 645 1965, to become of critical importance in the development of the Black Arts move ...

646 The American Century: Literature since 1945 dream: “The white man’s heaven is the Black man’s hell,” we are told in The Blac ...