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Linda Wagner-Martin
21) Denise Levertov
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Twayne's United States authors volume 113
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader to the essential history of the period including technology, religion, economy, class, gender and immigration. These contexts are woven of into discussions of many significant authors and...
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This book reads the oeuvre of Toni Morrison - fiction, nonfiction, and other - drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author places Morrison in several literary camps, one of them that of public intellectual; another, that of scion within the publishing world. Morrison began with novels that grew naturally from her own childhood in Lorain, Ohio - The Bluest Eye and Sula - but she quickly immersed herself in...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Here is a gold mine of information about women's writing, women's history, and women's concerns - 771 entries, ranging from short biographies to extensive essays. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and highly informative survey of women writers and their work as it also illuminates the issues that fired their imaginations. The volume boasts contributions by many of today's well-known...
