From Puritanism to postmodernism : a history of American literature

From a Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism. The authors reveal 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 Proud, to Wallace and Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Pynchon. lit - Ruland+Bradbury 1991 - From puritanism to postmodernism- American lit - 600dpi Kilroy part 1.pdf......Page 1 lit - Ruland+Bradbury 1991 - From puritanism to postmodernism- American lit - 600dpi Kilroy part 2.pdf......Page 299 Study of American writing and how it evolved into a literary form while addressing the cultural and social issues of the time A map of American literature that puts every writer in historical place from a contemporary perspective