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    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the nation s many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood s "American Gothic," Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on "Tarzan," Bharati Mukherjee on "The Scarlet Letter," Gish Jen on "Catcher in the Rye," and Ishmael Reed on "Huckleberry Finn." From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, "Life," Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.Please visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information. "

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    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the nation s many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood s "American Gothic," Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on "Tarzan," Bharati Mukherjee on "The Scarlet Letter," Gish Jen on "Catcher in the Rye," and Ishmael Reed on "Huckleberry Finn." From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, "Life," Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.Please visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information. "

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    A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus

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    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the nation s many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood s "American Gothic," Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on "Tarzan," Bharati Mukherjee on "The Scarlet Letter," Gish Jen on "Catcher in the Rye," and Ishmael Reed on "Huckleberry Finn." From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, "Life," Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.Please visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information. "

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    A New Literary History of America by Greil

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    Original Title: A New Literary History of America


    ISBN: 0674035941
    ISBN13: 9780674035942
    Autor: Greil Marcus (Editor)/W. Sollors
    Rating: 4.2 of 5 stars (2879) counts
    Original Format: Hardcover, 1095 pages
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    Published: November 4th 2009 / by Belknap Press
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    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in
    speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In
    these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors
    and editors of this volume find a new American history.

    In more than two hundred original essays, "A New Literary History of America" brings together the
    nation s many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the
    latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book
    gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means. Literature, music, film, art,
    history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to
    each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.

    The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on
    Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood s "American
    Gothic," Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison,
    Gerald Early on "Tarzan," Bharati Mukherjee on "The Scarlet Letter," Gish Jen on "Catcher in the
    Rye," and Ishmael Reed on "Huckleberry Finn." From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to
    Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics
    Anonymous, "Life," Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing,
    celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.

    Please visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information. "

    About Author:
    Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train (1975), Lipstick Traces (1989), The Shape of Things to
    Come (2006), When that Rough God Goes Riding and Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus (both 2010),
    and other books. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America (2009).
    In recent years he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, Minnesota, NYU, and the New School in
    New York. He lives in Oakland, California.

    Other Editions:

    - A New Literary History of America (Paperback)

    - A New Literary History of America (ebook)

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    May 25, 2010


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    Rated it: it was amazing
    Well, there aren't enough stars in the "heaventree" of the goodreads system to do justice to A New
    Literary History of America. This book collects 200 essays to trace America's literary history from
    1507 when the name America first appeared on a map to the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
    In between is an incredible journey celebrating not only the important moments in our literature but
    such other significant things as song lyrics, hallmark speeches and the Vietnam Veterans
    Memorial. Some of t
    Well, there aren't enough stars in the "heaventree" of the goodreads system to do justice to A New
    Literary History of America. This book collects 200 essays to trace America's literary history from
    1507 when the name America first appeared on a map to the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
    In between is an incredible journey celebrating not only the important moments in our literature but
    such other significant things as song lyrics, hallmark speeches and the Vietnam Veterans
    Memorial. Some of these essays are remarkable. The ones on Lolita, Ralph Walso Emerson, and
    the long history of the jeremiad in political speeches, continuing even today, stood out for me. I
    think some are brilliant--Stephen Schiff's 6-page essay on Lolita is as good as anything I've ever
    read on Nabokov's novel. I feared that subjects and writers this varied would produce more
    negative views. I can recall only 3 of these essays I considered rants by people with an ax to
    grind, one by an Amerind and 2 others about race. I thought they had no place in such a
    commemorative jamboree as this. Overall this book of insightful and thought-provoking essays is
    essential criticism tracing our history and our literature.
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