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A New Literary History Of America (2009)

by Greil Marcus(Favorite Author)
4.13 of 5 Votes: 3
ISBN
0674035941 (ISBN13: 9780674035942)
languge
English
publisher
Harvard University Press
review 1: The literary history of the United States through its more and less well-known writers, the speeches of presidents, declarations of independence, the birth of the Blues and Jazz to end with the election of the first black president. Although this manual was really long, it has been interesting.La storia della letteratura degli Stati Uniti attraverso i suoi piú e meno noti scrittori, i discorsi dei presidenti, le dichiarazioni di indipendenza, la nascita del Blues e quella del Jazz per finire con l'elezione del primo presidente nero. Anche se lungo é stato un manuale interessante.
review 2: This is probably going to take me forever, but it's awesome so far!*****Started again 9/1/14.I'm not going to mark this as "currently reading" because my present strategy i
... mores to average at least one essay a night...meaning, if I actually keep it up, it will take me over half a year (if not longer) to get through the whole thing. Plus, I REALLY wish there was a Kindle version...it's enormous! less
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Miriah
Somebody please give this to me for Christmas. I really like Werner Sollors.
sundu
A combination of my two intellectual loves, history and literature. Sigh.
jwood
(did not complete; project of reading a chapter a night is over for now)
Paisley
It was love at first sight for me when I read the table of contents.
Amanda
literature,history
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