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Magill's Survey of American Literature / Edition 2

Magill's Survey of American Literature / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 1587652854
ISBN-13:: 9781587652851
Pub. Date:: 09/28/2006
Publisher:: Salem Press

ISBN-10:: 1587652854
ISBN-13:: 9781587652851
Pub. Date:: 09/28/2006
Publisher:: Salem Press

Magill's Survey of American Literature / Edition 2

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ISBN-13:	9781587652851
Publisher:	Salem Press
Publication date:	09/28/2006
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	2866
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.20(h) x 9.20(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

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Examining selected works of 339 U.S. and Canadian writers, from Anne Bradstreet and Benjamin Franklin to Edward Bloor and Octavia E. Butler, this clearly written resource provides sturdy support for assignments, and will also be popular with discussion groups and with general readers of literature. The entries, arranged in a single alphabet, open with small black-and-white portraits, one-sentence context notes (Richard Brautigan "…is the principal transitional figure between the Beat writers and the youth culture of the 1960's"), and biographical overviews; proceed to analyze characters, events, and themes in 1 to 10 published works; then close with up-to-date bibliographies and brief lists of critical studies and of open-ended discussion topics. Among the novelists, poets, and playwrights are a small number of authors for young adults, including Gary Soto, Mel Glenn, and Cynthia Kadohata. Volume six includes several indexes, one of which groups the writers into one or more of 14 categories (e.g., "Poets," "African American/African Descent," "Jewish," "Gay or Bisexual"). Thoroughly revised and adding 73 writers to the 266 in the first edition (Marshall Cavendish, 1991), this work offers a level of detail that complements such wider-ranging but shorter-entry titles as Jay Parini's The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2003) and Carol Berkins's Encyclopedia of American Literature (Facts On File, 2002).
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