TY - BOOK AU - Heiney,Donald TI - Recent American literature T2 - Barron's college reviews. World literature series AV - PS221 .H38 U1 - 897.309 PY - 1958/// CY - Great Neck, N.Y. PB - Barron's Educational Series, inc. KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Fiction N1 - Includes bibliography; The background of modern American literature -- A new land, a new literature -- Society and literature -- The evolution of modern American literature -- Psychologists, philosophers, and prophets -- Main currents of the twentieth century -- The European influences -- The first American realists: 1880-1914: William Dean Howells -- Henry James -- Hamlin Garland -- Stephen Crane -- Frank Norris -- Jack London -- O. Henry -- Edith Wharton -- Gertrude Atherton -- Between the wars: realists and naturalists: Theodore Dreiser -- Booth Tarkington -- Gertrude Stein -- Upton Sinclair -- Elliot Paul -- Henry Miller -- John P. Marquand -- John Dos Passos -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ernest Hemingway -- Thomas Wolfe -- James T. Farrell -- Between the wars: regionalism and rural naturalism: Ellen Glasgow -- Willa Cather -- Ole Rolvaag -- Pearl Buck -- William Faulkner -- John Steinbeck -- Erskine Caldwell -- Robert Penn Warren -- William Saroyan -- Eurdora Welty -- Realists and naturalists: the new generation: John O'Hara -- Irwin Shaw -- Herman Wouk -- J.D. Salinger -- James Jones -- Norman Mailer -- The reaction to realism: psychological and romantic fiction: Sherwood Anderson -- James Branch Cabell -- Thornton Wilder -- Robinson Jeffers -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Drama in transition -- The Nineteenth century -- European influences -- The American theatre in the twentieth century: Clyde Fitch -- Eugene O'Neill -- Elmer Rice -- Sidney Howard -- Philip Barry -- Sidney Kingley -- Maxwell Anderson -- Robert Sherwood -- Clifford Odets -- S.N. Behrman -- Lillian Hellman -- Tennessee Williams -- Tradition and revolt in poetry -- The heritate of the nineteenth century -- British influences -- Continental influences -- General characteristics of contemporary American poetry -- History: the little magazines and other rallying-points -- American poets in the twentieth century: Edwin Markham -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Ezra Pound -- Amy Lowell -- H.D. -- John Gould Fletcher -- Elinor Wylie. Sara Teasdale -- T.S. Eliot -- Hart Crane -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Vachel Lindsay -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Conrad Aiken -- William Carlos Williams -- Wallace Stevens -- Archibald MacLeish -- E.E. Cummings -- John Crowe Ransom -- Marianne Moore -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Kenneth Fearing -- Some younger poets -- Recent American criticism -- General tendencies -- The new humanism -- Psychological and psychoanalytical criticism -- Naturalistic, sociological, and Marxist criticism -- The new criticism; TOC; English UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/recent-american-literature/oclc/26868319&referer=brief_results ER -