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(0)Richard J Gray
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"This new history of American literature from pre-Columbian times to the present is written in an informed and accessible style by one of the leading authorities in the field. While paying attention to the full range of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction that has been incorporated into the mainstream literary canon, it also looks at other forms, including oral literature, folktales, spirituals, the blues, the western, the defective story, the...
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This collection of essays offers a series of fresh and authoritative readings of most of the more important prose writers, and taken as a whole, a major reassessment of the American tradition in prose fiction. Each of the contributors has an enthusiastic and informed interest in the writer discussed and attempts both to characterize that writer's achievement and to offer a new perspective on his or her work. The book begins with a discussion of James...