The Complete Idiot's Guide to American LiteraturePenguin, 1999 - 468 pages You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature teaches you all about the rich tradition of American prose and poetry, so you can fully appreciate its magnificent diversity. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: |
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... lives to explore America's hidden despair . Modernism : This 20th - century literary movement , spearheaded by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot , used fragmentation , allusions , symbols , irony , and shifting points of view to respond to the ...
... lives to explore America's hidden despair . Modernism : This 20th - century literary movement , spearheaded by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot , used fragmentation , allusions , symbols , irony , and shifting points of view to respond to the ...
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... live in Greenwich Village if it hadn't been for the drop - dead hip world evoked by Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin , Allen Ginsburg and Gregory Corso - all of whom I knew intimately long before I'd even seen my first Jackson Pollock or ...
... live in Greenwich Village if it hadn't been for the drop - dead hip world evoked by Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin , Allen Ginsburg and Gregory Corso - all of whom I knew intimately long before I'd even seen my first Jackson Pollock or ...
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CCXLI | 213 |
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XXVII | 20 |
XXIX | 21 |
XXX | 22 |
XXXIII | 25 |
XXXIV | 26 |
XXXVI | 27 |
XXXVIII | 28 |
XXXIX | 29 |
XL | 30 |
XLII | 31 |
XLIII | 32 |
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XLVII | 37 |
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LXIII | 48 |
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LXV | 50 |
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LXXV | 56 |
LXXVII | 57 |
LXXVIII | 58 |
LXXXI | 61 |
LXXXII | 62 |
LXXXV | 63 |
LXXXVI | 64 |
LXXXVII | 65 |
LXXXVIII | 67 |
LXXXIX | 68 |
XC | 70 |
XCII | 71 |
XCIV | 72 |
XCV | 75 |
XCVI | 77 |
XCVII | 78 |
XCIX | 79 |
C | 80 |
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CIV | 83 |
CVI | 84 |
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CVIII | 87 |
CIX | 88 |
CX | 89 |
CXII | 90 |
CXIV | 91 |
CXVI | 92 |
CXVII | 93 |
CXVIII | 95 |
CXIX | 96 |
CXXI | 97 |
CXXII | 98 |
CXXIII | 99 |
CXXIV | 100 |
CXXV | 101 |
CXXVI | 102 |
CXXVII | 103 |
CXXIX | 104 |
CXXX | 105 |
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CXXXII | 108 |
CXXXV | 109 |
CXXXVI | 110 |
CXXXVIII | 111 |
CXXXIX | 112 |
CXL | 113 |
CXLII | 114 |
CXLIV | 117 |
CXLV | 119 |
CXLVI | 120 |
CXLVIII | 121 |
CXLIX | 122 |
CL | 123 |
CLII | 125 |
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CLV | 129 |
CLVII | 130 |
CLIX | 132 |
CLX | 133 |
CLXI | 134 |
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CLXV | 139 |
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CXCVIII | 179 |
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CCIII | 183 |
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CCV | 185 |
CCVII | 186 |
CCIX | 187 |
CCXI | 188 |
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CCXXX | 203 |
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CCXLVIII | 219 |
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CDXXX | 373 |
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CDXXXIX | 382 |
CDXLI | 383 |
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CDXLV | 386 |
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CDL | 391 |
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CDLX | 398 |
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