Traces the development of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the early twentieth century including examples of poems, essays, plays, short stories, and religious writings.
The recent enthusiasm for things postmodern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. Nicholls argues instead that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity. Through a lively analysis of each of Modernism's main literary movements, he explores the connec ...
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This volume of the COLLECTED WORKS OF LANGSTON HUGHES presents the poetry volumes he published in the final years of his life. In MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFFERED (1951), reprinted here, he asks his famous question, "What happens to a dream deferred?" His last volumes, ASK YOUR MAMA (1961) and THE PANTHE ...
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