Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Author: Roger Eliot StoddardPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
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Category : Concord River (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Dictionary of American Literary Characters
Author: American BookWorks CorporationPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe major characters from significant American novels, arranged chronologically from 1789 through 1960.
S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346)
Author: S. J. PerelmanPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598536931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist. S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty Days, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humor. In these short comic pieces--Perelman called them feuilletons--his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display. The New York Times once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult. Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play The Beauty Part (1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
Author: Marc ShellPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814797539
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
"American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories.".
A Library of American Literature: Literature of the republic, pt. 4, 1861-1888 (continued) Additional selections, 1834-1889. Short biographies of all authors represented in this work, by Arthur Stedman. General index
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Outline of American Literature
Author: Kathryn Van SpanckerenPublisher: Orange Grove Texts Plus
ISBN: 9781616100599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation. Contents: 1) Early American and Colonial Period to 1776. 2) Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820. 3) The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Essayists and Poets. 4) The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Fiction. 5) The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914. 6) Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945. 7) American Poetry, 1945-1990: The Anti-Tradition. 8) American Prose, 1945-1990: Realism and Experimentation. 9) Contemporary American Poetry. 10) Contemporary American Literature.
A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic, pt. 2. 1821-1834
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic. pt. 3. 1835-1860
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description