Post-war Literature, 1945-1970 (Research Guide to American Literature)

Cover......Page 1
Research Guide to American Literature: Postwar Literature, 1945–1970......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments .......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Series Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Overview......Page 14
Boundaries of the Period......Page 16
Dominant Genres and Literary Forms......Page 19
Historical and Social Context......Page 22
Literary Influences......Page 29
Evolution of Critical Opinion......Page 32
Part II: Study Guides on General Topics......Page 36
The Beat Generation......Page 38
Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement and\rBlack Power Movement......Page 44
The Cold War and Literature......Page 50
Confessional Poetry......Page 57
The Counter Culture and Literature......Page 63
Modern Primitive Poets......Page 69
Popular Music as Literature......Page 75
Postmodernist Fiction......Page 82
Science Fiction......Page 88
Part III: Study Guides on Works and Writers......Page 96
Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?......Page 98
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain......Page 103
Saul Bellow, Seize the Day......Page 108
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451......Page 112
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America......Page 117
James Dickey, Deliverance......Page 122
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man......Page 127
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun......Page 131
Joseph Heller, Catch-22......Page 135
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea......Page 140
Jack Kerouac, On the Road......Page 145
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest......Page 149
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird......Page 153
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead......Page 157
Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding......Page 162
Arthur Miller, The Crucible......Page 166
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman......Page 170
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn......Page 174
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita......Page 178
Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood......Page 183
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night......Page 188
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer......Page 192
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49......Page 197
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus......Page 201
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye......Page 205
John Steinbeck, East of Eden......Page 210
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner......Page 214
John Updike, Rabbit, Run......Page 219
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five......Page 223
Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men......Page 228
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof......Page 232
Part IV: Annotated Bibliog raphy......Page 238
Part V: Glossary......Page 246
Index......Page 252