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Letter "A" » American literature
«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.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
| About:
America and Americans,
Literature
| Keywords:
American literature, nostalgia, paradoxes, with nostalgia
«All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.»
Author: Carson McCullers
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American literature, loneliest, longing, New American, stamped, The New American, unrest, wanderer, wanderers, writers
«Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.»
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
American literature, British, inappropriate, sensibility, The Americans
«I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
American literature, brutal, foulest, hunt down, intolerant of, inveterate, Juvenal, Satirists, slander
«All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
American literature, Finn, huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, twain
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