American Literature Quotes
A tradition still writing itself.
Writers quoted here argue American literature stands apart from its English source, shaped by a distinct national sensibility. See American for broader reflections on national identity.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
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I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
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If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem...
In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course...
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
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My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do...
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
