A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 687 son Gooper; emotion and empathy draw him toward his childless and tortured son B ...

688 The American Century: Literature since 1945 sense in a way that made the ordinary seem extraordinary, the domestic mythic an ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 689 Living Theatre transplanted to Europe: all moved away from a drama that was auth ...

690 The American Century: Literature since 1945 especially modern life. The Zoo Story is basically an extended monologue by a yo ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 691 What is curious about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the light of Albee’s su ...

692 The American Century: Literature since 1945 fictions, can be dangerous, seducing those who act in this way into a destructiv ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 693 it seems, is taught by American culture to feel incomplete without the endless c ...

694 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Like Albee and Shepard, Lanford Wilson used the freedom of the theater outside B ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 695 Glengarry Glen Ross turns from robbers planning a robbery to salesmen planning a ...

696 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Hommel (1971), Sticks and Bones (1971), and Streamers (1976). Each play addresse ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 697 While Simon has continued to see many of his later plays, like The Dinner Party ...

698 The American Century: Literature since 1945 for previous generations of women. Nothing has really been resolved. “I’m afraid ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 699 Public Theatre of New York, under the direction of Joseph Papp (1921–1991). His ...

700 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Gallimard – also known as Madame Butterfly.” It is a strange kind of honor that ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 701 interviewer and a careful recorder. Second, what is needed is a scrupulously det ...

702 The American Century: Literature since 1945 of the four novelistic devices Wolfe prescribed for the New Journalism. In parti ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 703 serious than death.” That remark, coined by Harry Crews, could act as an epigrap ...

704 The American Century: Literature since 1945 though, such as the detective story, the thriller, and the police procedural, th ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 705 movies, and rock concerts. Real and basic enough, however, are the “shitty choic ...

706 The American Century: Literature since 1945 series of arcane signs. The signs, however, require interpretation, decoding acc ...