From Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time and helped define America's cultural and social parameters. Above all, they argue that American literature has always been essentially "modern," illustrating this with a broad range of texts: from Poe and Melville to Fitzgerald and Pound, to Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Pynchon.
From Puritanism to Postmodernism pays homage to the luxuriance of American writing by tracing the creation of a national literature that retained its deep roots in European culture while striving to achieve cultural independence.

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature

Literature & Fiction

Ruland, Richard

BRADBURY, Malcolm

United States

Penguin??Books

Two critics of American literature, one British and one American, join forces in this work to offer a late 20th century rediscovery of American literature. Adopting a modernist/postmodernist stance, Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the 17th century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate of its time, and how in turn, these works have, themselves, helped to define America's cultural and social parameters. They argue that American literature has always been essentially modern and illustrate this opinion by reference to a range of texts from Poe and Melville, through Fitzgerald and Pound, to Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. The book is intended to be of interest to students and teachers of literature and American cultural studies.

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

The native muse (His Theories of American literature, v. 1)

Dutton

A survey of American literature analyzes its social and historical contexts, assessing American literature in terms of both its European roots and its uniquely American institutions and attitudes

Viking Adult

Amazing Paranormal Encounters is a top 20 best seller on Amazon in the categories of Supernatural and Unexplained Mysteries since October 2015. This book is a collection of real experiences by notable paranormal personalities including paranormal authors, radio show hosts and tour guides. This chilling anthology reveals some of the strangest and most frightening experiences they have ever had and in some cases, these experiences are what brought them into the field of the paranormal in the beginning. Fresh edit in February 2016.

Amazing Paranormal Encounters: 2015

Religion & Spirituality

Mayhan, Joni

Kueber, Rick

Munnich, Annette

Johnston, Linda Marie

Ortiz, Anthony Wolfpaw

Lester PhD, William

Lynch PhD, Michael

Bouse, Geraldine

Hall-Scott, Connie

Occult & Paranormal

Stellium Books

This book is concerned with what the European writer finds usable about the inherited connotations attached to America. Professor Ruland, starting with the notion that ideas about America have long formed part of Europe's folklore, questions what the writer has done with this inheritance, and how it has combined with his other resources to produce the work we celebrate him for. We were not born to survive, alas, but to step on the gas Andrei Voznesensky . xv, iii , 197+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

America in Modern European Literature: From Image to Metaphor

History & Criticism

New York University Press

From Puritanism to Postmodernism (Routledge Classics)

Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature (Routledge Classics)

Routledge

GHOST STORIES AND MORE IN THIS ALL NEW COLLECTION!. Amazing Paranormal Encounters Volume 3. The follow-up book to the TWO top 10 best sellers in Supernatural, Horror, and Unexplained Mysteries on Amazon starting in October 2015. AMAZING PARANORMAL ENCOUNTERS VOLUMES 1 ( August 2015) & 2 (February 2016) Bone-chilling tales of ghosts and more written by authors, investigators, radio show hosts and other people in the paranormal field. This chilling anthology reveals some of the strangest and most frightening experiences they have ever had and in some cases, these experiences are what brought them into the field of the paranormal in the beginning.

Amazing Paranormal Encounters Volume 3

Baxter, James

Piper, Jason

Leeper, Jeffrey Scott

Davieau, Jacqueline

Robinson, Debra

Lynch,Michael

Gager, Dennis

Collins, Cole

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Storied Land : Theories of American Literature from Whitman to Edmund Wilson

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