Perspectives on Modern American Literature

Modern American Literature is enriched with novels, poems, plays and stories encompassing fictions, comedy, manners, tragedy, similes, metaphors, idioms, imagery, totems, taboos, rites, rituals, customs, themes, paradigms, genres, allegories etc., that have reached in the present form through long practice and experience of great stalwarts of literature. Through their specific styles and patterns, different literatures have contributed a lot to the American literature. "Spectrum of Modern American Literature" brings to the fore critical evaluation of the works of eminent novelists, poets and playwrights. Among the novelists of manners the book elaborately deals with novels of Ellen Glasgow, John P. Marquand, Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss, Sinclair Lewis, Scott Fitzerald, James Cozzens, Jon O’Hara, Jean Stafford, John Cheever, John Knowles, Leggett, inter alia many more. Critical evaluation of political works of M.C. Escherb, Kenneth Burke and Quidnunc along with many other poets is presented in the book in lucid language. Among the famous playwrights, the book presents literary criticism of plays written by Jean Claude van Itallie, Sam Shepard, Paul Foster, Amiri Baraka, Jack Gelber, Michael McClure and Rochelle Owens. Thus the book makes the presentation a complete encompassment of modern American Literature. The book will be of tremendous use to students and teachers of literature, scholars and general readers.