Fülszöveg
Edited by
DANIEL HOFFMAN
Here is the first comprehensive critical survey of the most
significant writing in the United States from the end of
World War II to the end of the 1970s. In original essays,
ten eminent critics describe and assess the work of Amer-
ican novelists, playwrights, and poets, and analyze the in-
tellectual and critical environment in which they worked.
The essays are critical as well as descriptive; they not only
map the terrain and analyze movements and trends, but
also assess the achievement of the writers discussed.
"The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing is in-
valuable. It has no rival/'
—Robert Penn Warren
"This remarkably good book undertakes an appalling
task—to give shape and form to a survey of w hat has been
going on in American literature since World War II—and
not only is considerable order adduced from the apparent
chaos, but the individuality of the writers being chronicled
avoids being mostly buried within the...
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Fülszöveg
Edited by
DANIEL HOFFMAN
Here is the first comprehensive critical survey of the most
significant writing in the United States from the end of
World War II to the end of the 1970s. In original essays,
ten eminent critics describe and assess the work of Amer-
ican novelists, playwrights, and poets, and analyze the in-
tellectual and critical environment in which they worked.
The essays are critical as well as descriptive; they not only
map the terrain and analyze movements and trends, but
also assess the achievement of the writers discussed.
"The Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing is in-
valuable. It has no rival/'
—Robert Penn Warren
"This remarkably good book undertakes an appalling
task—to give shape and form to a survey of w hat has been
going on in American literature since World War II—and
not only is considerable order adduced from the apparent
chaos, but the individuality of the writers being chronicled
avoids being mostly buried within the systemizing."
—Louis D. Rubin, Jr.,Washington Star
Daniel Hoffman is Professor of English and Poet in Resi-
dence at the University of Pennsylvania.
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