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Unfulfilled Promise: The Life of James Agee
According to Laurence Bergreen and Richard Schramm, the work of James Agee represents one of the unfulfilled promises of twentieth-century American literature. They approach Agee as a quintessential southern writer who represents the tensions of the southern literary renaissance. The … Continue reading
Posted in Bergreen, Laurence, Episodes, Schramm, Richard
Tagged American literature, Humanities, James Agee
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Native Subject: The Life and Work of Marsden Hartley
Thomas Gaehtgens and Townsend Ludington talk about Ludington’s book Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Painter. Hartley was among the first American modernist painters, although less well-known than his contemporaries Georgia O’Keefe and John Marin. In personal terms, Hartley was a … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gaehtgens, Thomas W., Ludington, Townsend
Tagged American artists, American literature, American painters, Marsden Hartley
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Democracy and Literature in America
From the time American literature began to assume discernible outlines in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, writers and critics have pondered the extent to which democracy as a political institution has affected literary expression in the United States. … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Strout, Cushing, Wilson, R. Jackson
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, American literature, U. S. History
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What Was Literature?
Leslie Fiedler discusses his book What Was Literature?: Class Culture and Mass Society, which describes literature, popular culture, and critical standards in the United States. He addresses the literary canon as created historically in American universities and the social and ideological … Continue reading
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Tagged American literature, Education standards -- U.S., Literary canon
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