Research Guide to American Literature

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present his “Author’s Note” at the end provide examples of the histories he consulted. The ...

Discusses golems and the analogy he has come to see between them and novels, as well as how contemporary audiences tend to view ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present For advanced students, a complex discussion of how Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, and Ric ...

my class! And it didn’t make sense until that moment, sitting in that seminar. That’s when I decided I would write about somethi ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present When Cisneros was eleven, her family bought a small house, their first per- manent ...

shamed by the nun who says, “You live there? ” to the rape in “Red Clowns,” Esperanza is threatened emotionally and physically. ...

190 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present RESOURCES Primary Works “Only Daughter,” in Latina: Women’s Voices from the Borderl ...

Examines the form of The House on Mango Street and places it in the context of other Chicano writing that experiments with the c ...

192 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Billy Collins (1941– ) The only child of William Collins, an electrician and later ...

later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.” Underlying his humor is something darker. In the frequently an ...

19 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present video recordings and links to them can be found at the Library of Congress website. ...

school day. The anthologies Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and its follow-up, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day ...

19 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present “Poetry, Pleasure, and the Hedonist Reader,” in The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of t ...

Ernest Hilbert, “Wages of Fame: The Case of Billy Collins,” Contemporary Poetry Review (2006) http://www.cprw.com/Hilbert/collin ...

19 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Bruce Weber, “On Literary Bridge, Poet Hits a Roadblock,” New York Times, 19 Decemb ...

received the National Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His follow-up in 1988, Libra, wa ...

200 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Early in White Noise DeLillo introduces the idea of the simulacrum when Jack and hi ...

affected by them.” White Noise results from that observation. Students would find it fruitful to track instances of defamiliariz ...

202 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present everything—microwaves, electrical insulation etc.” Students interested in this topi ...

Kennedy assassination, the Warren Report, paranoia, and most of his novels published to 1993. Thomas DePietro, ed., Conversation ...