Research Guide to American Literature

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present sonnets.. .”); comments by poets demonstrate a range of attitudes toward the relati ...

Seventeen (2006), and Ballistics (2008). See the topic devoted to him in Part III of this volume. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) Americ ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present (1993), Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974–1979 (1996), Pierce-Arrow (1999), The Eu ...

Mary Oliver (1935– ) Received the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive (1983). A prolific poet, since 2000 she has writ ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Natasha Trethewey (1966– ) Poet who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for Nati ...

Postmodernism Students who wish to explore Postmodernism will first want to familiarize themselves with the larger cultural mean ...

10 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present the thriller, the detective story, the myth saga, the science-fiction and speculati ...

Narrative more attention began to be paid to Postmodernist writing by women and people of color. One can also divide literary Po ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present American writers, Ishmael Reed has engaged in Postmodernist game playing, metaficti ...

material world and its impact on human consciousness changed over time in these authors’ works? Genre blending is a common stra ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Criticism Rachel Adams, “The Ends of America, the Ends of Postmodernism,” Twentieth ...

Collects essays on the structuring of Postmodernism in works by Jerome Klinkowitz, Donald Barthelme, and Raymond Carver; the rel ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism (New York: Routledge, 1988). One of the ...

Postmodernism 17 PEOPLE OF INTEREST Paul Auster (1947– ) Fiction writer and poet who often employs a sense of the absurd and th ...

1 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present William Gass (1924– ) Novelist, short-story writer, and essayist known especially f ...

Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature 19 Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature Literature of the Vietnam War crosses genres, appe ...

10 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present understand what veterans had gone through. Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in the Combat Zon ...

Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature 11 working as a teacher and humanitarian in Vietnam, provides him a perspective unavailabl ...

12 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present the political spectrum, such as the right-wing National Review and the left-wing Ra ...

Vietnam War (and Antiwar) Literature 1 name; Ted Kotcheff ’s First Blood (1982), starring Sylvester Stallone, is based on Davi ...