(Scientific American Special Edition Volume 14, Number 4)
In this special edition from Scientific American, we invite you to forget about everyday life to spend some time with the stars. In the pages that follow, you’ll find the latest gossip on the glitterati, written by the astronomer shutterbugs themselves. Although the stars have revealed more than ever, they’ve been careful not to tell all, lest we grow bored with their antics. As authors Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson so aptly put it in “Magnetars”: “What other phenomena, so rare and fleeting that we have not recognized them, lurk out there?” We can hardly wait to find out.
Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert’s lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner’s development as a novelist through eighteen novels-ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers-to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption.
USA Literature in Brief pinpoints and
describes the contributions to American literature of some of the
best-recognized American poets, novelists, philosophers and dramatists
from pre-Colonial days through the present. Major literary figures are
discussed in detail, as are their major works. Brief discussions of
cultural periods and movements such as romanticism, modernism, and
transcendentalism put individuals in context and lend perspective. This
condensed version of Outline of American Literature highlights major
achievers and important works in the canon.
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1832. Washington Irving was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and is considered to be the Father of the American Short Story. While living in London Irving published Alhambra, concerning the history and the legends of Moorish Spain.
In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin
invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American
literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an
international--a "cosmopolitan"--literary canon. The book comes at a
time when the most influential national media have focused attention on
the subject of the literary canon. They have made it an issue not
merely of academic but of general public concern, expressing strong
opinions on the subject of what the American student should or should
not read as essential or core texts. Is the literary canon simply a
given of tradition and history, or is it, and must it be, constantly
under construction? The question remains hotly contested to the present
moment.
