Research Guide to American Literature

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present ment with language and structure. (See, for instance, John Barth, “The Literature o ...

Paul D, a friend from her Sweet Home days, and the appearance of Beloved, possibly the embodied ghost of her murdered child. Pra ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present valuable, and in what ways is it destructive? For instance, when Paul D tells Sethe ...

past in the present, and Black English. The volume also includes a transcript of her Nobel Prize address and essays on her homet ...

2 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present New York Times, “What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?” 2 ...

Joyce Carol Oates, High Lonesome: New and Selected Short Stories (New York: Ecco, 2006) Almost every discussion of Joyce Carol O ...

290 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Monroe’s life and untimely death. The elusive American dream is central to each of ...

Students interested in writing about the stories collected in High Lonesome might want to begin by learning about Oates’s life a ...

292 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present tors, of uncomprehending children, of the unbalanced and the insane.” Using two or ...

Lee Millazzo, ed., Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates ( Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989). Compiles the major in ...

29 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Brenda Daly, “Sexual Politics in Two Collections of Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Ficti ...

essays such as “The Vietnam in Me” O’Brien describes himself as responding to the draft notice with disbelief and disgust—he had ...

29 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present An example of the Postmodernist impulse at work in The Things They Carried begins e ...

Timmerman posits that a key question addressed by The Things They Car- ried is, “Can one capture the reality of the event in su ...

29 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present comparison of the typical soldier with visiting girlfriend Mary Anne: “Seven- teen ...

since left him. They visited several areas where he had been as a soldier, including the site of the My Lai Massacre. Criticism ...

00 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Steve Kaplan, “The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O’Brien’s The Things ...

h Robert Pinsky (1940– ) As a poet, literary critic, teacher, and translator, Robert Pinsky has sought to move poetry beyond the ...

02 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Poetry and Its Traditions (1976) he challenges dominant trends in contemporary poet ...

developed by Synapse Software and released by Broderbund. In addition to his imaginative works, Pinsky is the author of several ...