Brief History of American Lite [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Gray, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1405192305 ISBN 13: 9781405192309

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Riassunto

• A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. 
• Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature 
• Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking  at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction
• Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years
• Offers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard   survey text 
• Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States

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Recensione:

"This is a wonderful book. Writing in an elegantly accessible style, Richard Gray offers the reader a truly comprehensive narrative of American literature from the seventeenth to the twenty–first centuries. The entire range, diversity, and richness of American writing are made available here in a single, superbly authoritative volume."
Andrew Hook, University of Glasgow

"Drawing upon a lifetime of reading and research in this field, and covering a huge range of material from the Bay Psalm Book to Walter Mosley, Richard Gray′s Literature of the United States offers an excellent survey that holds the American cultural tradition in a compelling, synoptic whole."
Paul Giles, University of Sydney

"Richard Gray′s A Brief History of American Literature is an extraordinary achievement. Gray offers us a fascinating and nuanced overview of United States writing, employing literary sensibility to examine a range of periods and genres."
Susan Castillo, King′s College, London

L'autore:

Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning  Writing the South  (Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1944).  His History of  American Literature is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1405192305
• ISBN 13: 9781405192309
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 422