AMERICAN WRITERS, Retrospective Supplement I

AMERICAN WRITERS, Retrospective Supplement I
by A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel
Number Of Pages: 457
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0684804948
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780684804941

The American Writers book series, a collection of critical and biographical articles, now covers 219 notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays of 12-15 pages in length, by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers, and works. The essays are written in an appealing style, include numerous quotations, and conclude with bibliographies for further study.

The essays contained in the books are appropriate reading for the widest audience, for students in high school and graduate school, for teachers at all levels, for librarians, for editors and reviewers, for American writers themselves, including scholars and critics, and for the general reader. Specialists may in some instances regard the essays as being of primary interest (or as being controversial!), and high-school students will find them within their reach, if not always entirely within their grasp.

The Retrospective Supplement I contains essays on nineteen classic American writers most often addressed by students; teachers at all levels and librarians were consulted in drawing up the list. It can either stand alone as a new look at nineteen classic writers or supplement and update the original essays.

Contents:

WILLA CATHER
EMILY DICKINSON
T.S. ELIOT
WILLIAM FAULKNER
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
ROBERT FROST
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
LANGSTON HUGHES
HENRY JAMES
HERMAN MELVILLE
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
EZRA POUND
WALLACE STEVENS
JOHN UPDIKE
EUDORA WELTY
EDITH WHARTON
WALT WHITMAN
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS