Research Guide to American Literature

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present it is already there: the starting place. All day long forms keep droning that x=x, ...

Ariz.: Oryx Press, 2000), pp. 224–228; also useful is the entry on the “Aca- demic Study of Humor,” pp. 1–6. RESOURCES Primary W ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present “Robert Pinsky,” in Talking with Poets, edited by Harry Thomas (New York: Hansdel, ...

Piotr Gwiazda, “‘Beyond My Outrage or My Admiration’: Postnational Critique in Robert Pinsky’s An Explanation of America,” Colle ...

0 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Award. And yet, Proulx did not begin her full-fledged literary career until she was ...

Along with “The Blood Bay,” it is a takeoff on the traditional “tall tale” that was once central to Western American literature. ...

10 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present be examined in any of these stories for their impact on character both in the sense ...

essays by Christopher Pullen (in Hunt’s The Geographical Imagination), James Keller and Anne Goodwyn Jones, and the collection b ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Ginger Jones, “Proulx’s Pastoral: Brokeback Mountain As Sacred Space,” in Read- ing ...

Jones Rich, a concert pianist who set aside her career to be a wife and mother, and Arnold Rice Rich, a professor of pathology a ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present two fellow nominees, both African American women, Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. Soo ...

Universities, and she has received numerous awards and fellowships, among them Guggenheim Fellowships (1952–1953 and 1961–1962), ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present and fantasies have never been acted-on.” Poems to consider include “Living in Sin,” ...

Criticism Jane Roberta Cooper, ed., Reading Adrienne Rich: Reviews and Revisions, 1951–81 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Pre ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present as numerous international awards. He is widely considered to be one of the most inf ...

presented himself as a middle-class Jewish man, was born an African American in East Orange, New Jersey. After returning from Wo ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present and judgments is the assumption that there are impure, indecent actions that cannot ...

exploiting her. Delphine Roux is a hyper-educated French intellectual, but her life is entirely unfulfilling outside of her posi ...

22 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Sees The Human Stain as “the logical outgrowth of Roth’s lifelong aesthetic com- mi ...

the idealistic American notion that one can emerge from humble beginnings to become anything or anyone. In Shepard’s dramatic wo ...