A history of American literature : 1950 to the present / / Linda Wagner-Martin |
Autore | Wagner-Martin Linda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9005 |
Collana | Wiley-Blackwell histories of American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
American literature - 21st century - History and criticism American literature |
ISBN |
1-118-32913-9
1-118-32914-7 1-299-15831-5 1-118-32917-1 1-118-32916-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A History of American Literature; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Locating Contemporary Literature; American Poetry During the 1950s; A. Poems of the Mind and the Body; B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School; American Theater During the 1950s; American Fiction During the 1950s; A. Fiction and the War; B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel; C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern; Chapter 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change; Theater of the 1960s; African American Writing in the 1960s; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers; Feminism
Chapter 3 Conventions and Eruptions Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years; Feminist Fictions; Postmodern Fictions; Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds; The New Journalism; Theater During the 1970s; Chapter 4 New Ages and Old; Memoir: Another New Direction; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style; Theater During the 1980s; Chapter 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change; Asian American Writing; Native American Writing; Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina); African American Writing; Poetry in the 1980s; Fiction in the 1980s; Chapter 6 The 1990s and the Sexual Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues Theater of the 1990s; The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 7 The Twenty-First Century; The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath; Theater 2000-2010; Poetry 2000-2010; Memoir and Life-Writing 2000-2010; Fiction 2000-2010; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141500603321 |
Wagner-Martin Linda | ||
Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of American literature : 1950 to the present / / Linda Wagner-Martin |
Autore | Wagner-Martin Linda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9005 |
Collana | Wiley-Blackwell histories of American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
American literature - 21st century - History and criticism American literature |
ISBN |
1-118-32913-9
1-118-32914-7 1-299-15831-5 1-118-32917-1 1-118-32916-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A History of American Literature; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Locating Contemporary Literature; American Poetry During the 1950s; A. Poems of the Mind and the Body; B. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School; American Theater During the 1950s; American Fiction During the 1950s; A. Fiction and the War; B. Class and Sexuality in the Novel; C. The Novel, Jewish and Southern; Chapter 2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change; Theater of the 1960s; African American Writing in the 1960s; 1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers; Feminism
Chapter 3 Conventions and Eruptions Poetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years; Feminist Fictions; Postmodern Fictions; Science Fiction and Alternative Worlds; The New Journalism; Theater During the 1970s; Chapter 4 New Ages and Old; Memoir: Another New Direction; Crime and Detective Fiction, American Style; Theater During the 1980s; Chapter 5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change; Asian American Writing; Native American Writing; Mexican American Writing (i.e., Latino/Latina); African American Writing; Poetry in the 1980s; Fiction in the 1980s; Chapter 6 The 1990s and the Sexual Sexual Preferences and Social/Legal Issues Theater of the 1990s; The Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Story at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Southern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 7 The Twenty-First Century; The Story of 9/11 and Its Aftermath; Theater 2000-2010; Poetry 2000-2010; Memoir and Life-Writing 2000-2010; Fiction 2000-2010; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830596803321 |
Wagner-Martin Linda | ||
Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2013] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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John Steinbeck : A Literary Life / / by Linda Wagner-Martin |
Autore | Wagner-Martin Linda |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 183 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.7 |
Collana | Literary Lives |
Soggetto topico |
America - Literatures
Literature, Modern - 20th century North American Literature Twentieth-Century Literature |
ISBN | 1-137-55382-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Chapter One: Steinbeck and the Short Story -- Chapter Two: Tortilla Flat, The Book of the Others -- Chapter Three: Journalism v Fiction -- Chapter Four: The Grapes of Wrath -- Chapter Five: The Sea of Cortez, A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research -- Chapter Six: World War II -- Chapter Seven: Cannery Row and The Pearl -- Chapter Eight: The Ed Ricketts Narratives -- Chapter Nine: East of Eden and the 1950s -- Chapter Ten: The Winter of Our Discontent -- Chapter Eleven: Travels with Charley In Search of America -- Chapter Twelve: The Nobel Prize for Literature -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255061303321 |
Wagner-Martin Linda | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Toni Morrison : A Literary Life / / by Linda Wagner-Martin |
Autore | Wagner-Martin Linda |
Edizione | [2nd ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
Disciplina | 813.54 |
Collana | Literary Lives |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
America - Literatures Literature - Philosophy Culture - Study and teaching Fiction Literature - History and criticism Twentieth-Century Literature North American Literature Literary Theory Cultural Theory Fiction Literature Literary History |
ISBN |
9783030885908
9783030885892 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Morrison’s Early Years -- Song of Solomon: One Beginning of Morrison’s Career -- Tar Baby and Other Folktales -- Beloved, Beloved, Beloved -- Jazz and Morrison’s Trilogy: New York in the 1920s -- Morrison as Public Intellectual.-The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison’s Trilogy -- Morrison and the Twenty-first Century: Love -- Morrison and Various Mercies -- Morrison and the Definitions of Home -- God Help the Child -- The Origin of Others and The Source of Self-Regard -- Coda. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910544874703321 |
Wagner-Martin Linda | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Walt Whitman : A Literary Life / / by Linda Wagner-Martin |
Autore | Wagner-Martin Linda |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 pages) |
Disciplina |
809.93358729403
811.3 |
Collana | Literary Lives |
Soggetto topico |
America - Literatures
Literature, Modern - 19th century Poetry United States - History North American Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Poetry and Poetics US History |
ISBN | 3-030-77665-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter One: The Pride of Family -- Chapter Two: Whitman’s Romance with Work -- Chapter Three: To Travel -- Chapter Four: Leaves of Grass, 1855 -- Chapter Five: Whitman’s Life as “Poet” -- Chapter Six: Family and The Civil War -- Chapter Seven: The Horrors of American War -- Chapter Eight: Still More War -- Chapter Nine: Whitman and Lincoln -- Chapter Ten: The Wages of Class -- Chapter Eleven: Afterwar -- Chapter Twelve: Reconstruction -- Chapter Thirteen: Suggestions of Success -- Chapter Fourteen: The Hardiness of Fame -- Chapter Fifteen: To Travel, II -- Chapter Sixteen: The Last Years. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502653603321 |
Wagner-Martin Linda | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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