San Antonio College Library

The interplay between fiction and history forms the core of Byatt's essays as she explores historical storytelling and the translation of historical fact into fiction.

This volume discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning. Covering a range of genres, including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry, it is designed to be used alongside the major anthologies of literature from the period in...

Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historian of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.

This book investigates the concept of what it means to be 'epic' and its form in American life, literature, and art from the country's early days.

Discusses three pairs of novels: Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) and The mosquito coast (Theroux); Emma (Austen) and Howards End (Forster); The secret agent (Conrad) and The human factor (Green).

Strout shows how an American tradition has developed through the responses of writers to the works of previous writers. He begins with the influence of Tocqueville on American literature, and how his vision brought minimal attention to time and place, and fostered the neglect of southern, black and female writers. Strout demonstrates how writers shed new light on many American themes as they responded to the predecessors. His comparisons cover Hawthorne...