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Journey Through American Literature

Kevin J. Hayes
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      A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage. Kevin J. Hayes charts this history through a series of approachable thematic chapters—Narrative Voice and the Short Story, the Drama of the Everyday, the Great American Novel—that reveal the richness of our literature while providing a compelling set of footholds with whichto engage it. Among the topics covered are the role of travel and the symbolism of geography, characters and the importance of voice and dialect, self-definition and the American dream, new beginnings, and the role of memory. Hayes not only discusses the main canonical genres like poetry, drama, and thenovel, but also looks at travel writing, autobiography, and frame tales. Key writers like Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, Emily Dickinson, and Harriet Jacobs are central players in the drama while dozens more create a backdrop that gives this history depth. The book also features over 20 illustrations, a bibliography, and a chronology listing the key events and work in America's literary history.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kevin J. Hayes EAN: 9780199862078 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 410 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-03-15 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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      Kevin J. Hayes is Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of The Road to Monticello.
      A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage. Kevin J. Hayes charts this history through a series of approachable thematic chapters—Narrative Voice and the Short Story, the Drama of the Everyday, the Great American Novel—that reveal the richness of our literature while providing a compelling set of footholds with whichto engage it. Among the topics covered are the role of travel and the symbolism of geography, characters and the importance of voice and dialect, self-definition and the American dream, new beginnings, and the role of memory. Hayes not only discusses the main canonical genres like poetry, drama, and thenovel, but also looks at travel writing, autobiography, and frame tales. Key writers like Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, Emily Dickinson, and Harriet Jacobs are central players in the drama while dozens more create a backdrop that gives this history depth. The book also features over 20 illustrations, a bibliography, and a chronology listing the key events and work in America's literary history.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kevin J. Hayes EAN: 9780199862078 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 410 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-03-15 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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      Kevin J. Hayes is Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of The Road to Monticello.

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