The American Tradition In Literature, Shorter - Softcover

Perkins, George; Perkins, Barbara

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9780072486810: The American Tradition In Literature, Shorter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072486813 ISBN 13: 9780072486810

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2002

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Widely known as the anthology that best meshes tradition with innovation, this shorter version of The American Tradition in Literature includes every major author found in the two-volume set, but fewer selections keep it manageably half the length.

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George Perkins is Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University and an Associate Editor of Narrative. He holds degrees from Tufts and Duke universities and received his Ph.D. from Cornell. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Australia and has held a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to Newcastle and Edinburgh, he has taught at Washington University, Baldwin-Wallace College and Fairleigh Dickinson University. His books include THE THEORY OF THE AMERICAN NOVEL, REALISTIC AMERICAN SHORT FICTION, AMERICAN POETIC THEORY, THE HARPER HANDBOOK TO LITERATURE (with Northrup Frye and Sheridan Baker), THE PRACTICAL IMAGINATION (with Frye, Baker and Barbara Perkins), BENET'S READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (with Barbara Perkins), KALEIDOSCOPE: Stories of the American Experience (with Barbara Perkins), WOMEN'S WORK; An Anthology of American Literature (with Barbara Perkins and Robyn Warhol), and THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE, 9TH edition (with Barbara Perkins).

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