Research Guide to American Literature

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Madhuparna Mitra, “Lahiri’s Mrs. Sen’s,” Explicator, 64 (Spring 2006): 185–189. Bri ...

creating a poetic of somber spiritual devotion—a devotion on full display in his first book, Rose. Lee’s first book is a small b ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present to preserve beauty for the reader, praise that beauty, pray for it, and then accept ...

in “Persimmons” with other poems in Rose, explaining their connection to themes related to language and expression, generational ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present The City in Which I Love You, and, most notably, Book of My Nights. Again, what may ...

Gerald Stern, Foreword to Rose, by Li-Young Lee (Rochester, N.Y.: BOA, 1986), pp. 8–10. Discusses Stern’s relationship with Lee ...

270 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present did not get along with his stepfather, who was psychologically and physically abusi ...

Speed-the-Plow (produced, 1987; published, 1988) picks up on these themes in its unflattering portrayal of the film industry whe ...

272 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Almost all discussions of Mamet’s plays note his adept use of language. Anne Dean ...

examining male behavior, speech, and interactions with one another, students could extrapolate how Mamet defines American manhoo ...

27 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Nightingale’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (pp. 89–102) is a useful discussion of the play ...

Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights, edited by Kimball King (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 167–176. Exa ...

27 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present ing program. After his military service McCarthy returned to the University of Tenn ...

of a hero. The self-reliant John Grady Cole embodies old-fashioned values; his capacity for violence is balanced by decency, kin ...

27 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present in the protagonists’ desire to be free from the complications of modernity. For a d ...

In a 2008 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show McCarthy explained his pref- erence for simple, declarative sentence structure. H ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Garry Wallace, “Meeting McCarthy,” Southern Quarterly, 30 (Summer 1992): 134–139. F ...

Kevin L. Cole, “McCarthy’s THE BORDER TRILOGY,” Explicator, 59, 3 (2001): 161–163. Short essay focusing on images of absent, dea ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present James D. Lilley, ed., Cormac McCarthy: New Directions (Albuquerque: University of N ...

Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Knopf, 1987) In 2006 The New York Times asked around two hundred writers, critics, editors, “a ...