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Author: Kevin J. Hayes (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Central Oklahoma)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 20.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 13.70cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9780199862061
ISBN 10: 0199862060
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 March 2012
Audience:
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Further / Higher Education
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A reflective and mature reader and writer, Hayes adopts an unhurried yet quietly authoritative persona as he meanders through the rich experiments of American literature. Valuing concision and clarity, he offers reasonable, clear critical assessments his canvas is comprehensive ... Recommended * M. J. McDonough, Monroe Community College, CHOICE *
<br> Hayes has read widely and deeply and commands his material always. Organizing the material by genre and sub-genre rather than strictly by chronology makes the work highly readable and original. --Jerome Loving, author of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens<p><br> Reading Kevin Hayes's personal tour through American literature is like chatting with a one-person book club, whose knowledge comes across in discussing the famous as well as overlooked and interesting writers. Rather than a chronological approach, Hayes takes us on a journey through different genres, making it easy to see how works cluster together by forms and themes. This is an enjoyable and informative read. --Joel Myerson, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism <p><br>
<br> Hayes has read widely and deeply and commands his material always. Organizing the material by genre and sub-genre rather than strictly by chronology makes the work highly readable and original. --Jerome Loving, author of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens<br><br><p><br> Reading Kevin Hayes's personal tour through American literature is like chatting with a one-person book club, whose knowledge comes across in discussing the famous as well as overlooked and interesting writers. Rather than a chronological approach, Hayes takes us on a journey through different genres, making it easy to see how works cluster together by forms and themes. This is an enjoyable and informative read. --Joel Myerson, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism <br><br><p><br> Hayes' argument that American writing is obsessed with inventing the American person neatly and impressively comprehends the majority of American texts. -- First Things<p><br>
Author Information
Kevin J. Hayes is Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson.
