Name: The Oxford Companion to American Literature par James D. Hart (late Director, Bancroft Library, late Director, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart (late Director, Bancroft Library, late Director, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

For more than a half a century, James Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has been a matchless guide through the myriad paths and byways of American literary culture. It has been revised regularly since its first publication in 1941, although Hart died in 1990, before he could complete this new edition. The experienced reference book editor Phillip Leininger has completed the revisions for the sixth edition of this classic work . Nearly 200 new entries range from major new literary talents (Don Delillo, Thomas Flanagan, William Kennedy, Cormac MacCarthy) to playwrights and theatre people (Harvey Fierstein, John Guare, Stephen Sondheim, August Wilson), and science fiction and popular authors (Raymond Carver, Stephen King, Harold Robbins, Theodore Sturgeon). Many more entries have been expanded to take account of work written since the publication of the last edition (Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike). Leininger has also endeavoured to widen the scope of the book by adding entries on women (M. F. K. Fisher, Ursula Le Guin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gloria Steinhem), as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and other ethnic groups. The Companions Chronological Index includes new literary and social notes that bring it right up to date. While there are a number of reference works dealing with American literature, none of them have the stature and authority of the Oxford Companion, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

The Oxford Companion to American Literature Avis

More apparently does not always have to mean less in this era of canon expansion; here more is just that, insuring this companion's continued preeminence in its field well into the new century. * Nineteenth-Century Literature 51:3 (December 1996) *
From Reviews of Previous Editions: `A valuable reference work that also provides browsing pleasure.' The New York Times `one of the half-dozen literary works which must be found on any serious follower's shelf' Dallas Times Herald

À propos de James D. Hart (late Director, Bancroft Library, late Director, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

The late James D. Hart was Director of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Phillip Leininger is the editor of several reference books, particularly Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature.

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9780195065480

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Titre

The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart (late Director, Bancroft Library, late Director, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

Auteur

James D. Hart (late Director, Bancroft Library, late Director, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

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Oxford Companions

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Oxford University Press Inc

Année de publication

19960215

Nombre de pages

788

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