| Description |
263 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
National university publications
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National university publications.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1 : fiction. Tension and technique : the years of greatness ; The poetry in American fiction ; Sherwood , Stein , the sentence , and grape sugar and oranges ; Faulkner and (southern) women ; Barren Ground's vein of iron : Dorinda Oakley and some concepts of heroine in 1925 ; Oates : the changing shapes of her realities ; Deliverance : initiation and possibility ; A note on oedipa the roadrunner -- pt. 2 : poetry. Modern American literature : the poetics of the individual voice ; "Speaking straight ahead..." ; Horace Gregory : voice in action ; On David Ignatow ; William Stafford's plain-style ; Call me Maximus ; Berryman : from the beginning ; The latest Creeley ; Creeley's late poems : contexts ; Spindrift : the world in a seashell ; Nails : Gary Gildner's house of poetry ; Helen in Egypt : a culmination ; Sound of direction ; Levertov and Rich : the later poems ; Plath's "Ariel" : "Auspicious gales" ; Wakoski and Rukeyser ; Personism : some notes on the she and he of it. Coda : damn it, Bill : they still haven't listened ! |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Indexed Term |
Poetry in English American writers, 1900-1979 - Critical studies |
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Fiction in English American writers, 1900-1979 - Critical studies |
| ISBN |
0804692572 : $16.50 |
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9780804692571 |
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