Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages.
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Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 21, Emily rated it liked it Shelves: school-books , own. I have a new found love for anthologies, and was glad I was assigned two of them for this semester.
I'll probably read ahead and just flip through it. It covers to The Civil War literature is the main focus of this volume. A huge variety of African-American writers are included. I've said it before but I still use this book actively.
Got an A for American Literature, totally not biased with my review whatsoever. Oct 18, Tortla rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , dragons-and-fantasy , essays , giggles , historical-fiction , memoiry , plays-and-drama , poetry , religiony , schooly. Excellent, beautiful, wonderful, I dropped a ginger teabag on it and its crinkly paper pages are forever marred but I love it still. Oct 12, Rebekah Byson rated it it was amazing.
This is a little bit like cheating to add to a reading challenge; only because I have been reading this Anthology, or re-reading some selections, for the last 5 years!
I love old literature! And I find these Norton Anthologies to be some of the most interesting collections of short stories, excerpts, history, and poetry available. I finished volume 1 this morning by reading the short story Life in the Iron-Mills. The literature that was written in America between the s to s is some of the This is a little bit like cheating to add to a reading challenge; only because I have been reading this Anthology, or re-reading some selections, for the last 5 years!
The literature that was written in America between the s to s is some of the most timeless, powerful writing in all of the world's literature. Plath and Sexton's lifetimes spanned a period of remarkable change in the social role of women in America, and both are obviously feminist poets caught somewhere between the submissive pasts. Throughout American literature there are several themes that one can find and explore. All you must do is to look and interpret what you are reading.
One such theme is death and the idea of death. Death has always been in the collective conscious of Americans because, it is, well, inevitable. It is most certainly coming for each and every one and is inescapable. Therefore, the moral integrity of the American people in addition to its potential as an empire are dependent on the peaceful coexistence of science and religion.
Baym, Nina, and Robert S. New York: W. Norton, Grimke expresses how slavery is not right in any way, shape, form or fashion. She states now God does not approve of this. She also states how it is not in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or anything like that. David Walker, in response to Thomas Jefferson expressed that although we are black, we have feeling too. Imagen del vendedor. Nuevo Tapa blanda Cantidad disponible: Comprar nuevo EUR 40, Norton and Company Nuevo PAP Cantidad disponible: 1.
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