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- Nov 07, 2020
American Literature Quotes
A tradition still writing itself.
Writers quoted here argue American literature stands apart from its English source, shaped by a distinct national sensibility. See American for broader reflections on national identity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
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- Nov 07, 2020