The Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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牛津美国文学指南
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J. Hart
半个多世纪以来，詹姆斯·哈特（James Hart）的《牛津美国文学指南》（Oxford Companion to American Literature）一直是美国文学文化中无数途径和途径的无与伦比的指南。自1941年首次出版以来，它一直定期修订，尽管哈特在1990年去世，在他能够完成这个新版本之前。经验丰富的参考书编辑菲利普莱宁格已经完成了这部经典作品第六版的修订。近200个新的参赛作品范围从主要的新文学人才（唐德里罗，托马斯弗拉纳根，威廉肯尼迪，科马克麦卡锡），剧作家和戏剧人（哈维菲尔斯坦，约翰瓜尔，斯蒂芬桑德海姆，奥古斯特威尔逊），科幻小说和流行作家（雷蒙德卡弗，斯蒂芬金，哈罗德罗宾斯，西奥多斯特金）。更多的条目已经扩大，以考虑到自上一版出版以来所写的工作（扫罗贝瑟，诺曼梅勒，乔伊斯卡罗尔奥茨，约翰厄普代克）。莱宁格还努力通过添加有关女性的条目来扩大本书的范围（M。F. K. Fisher，Ursula Le吉因，Bobbie Ann Mason，格洛丽亚Steinheim），以及非洲裔美国人，美洲原住民和其他种族群体。同伴年表索引包括新的文学和社会笔记，使它的权利最新。虽然有许多参考著作涉及美国文学，但没有一本具有《牛津指南》的地位和权威性，这对随意浏览者和认真学习的学生来说都是一种乐趣。
For more than a half a century, James Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has been a matchless guide through the myriad paths and byways of American literary culture. It has been revised regularly since its first publication in 1941, although Hart died in 1990, before he could complete this new edition. The experienced reference book editor Phillip Leininger has completed the revisions for the sixth edition of this classic work . Nearly 200 new entries range from major new literary talents (Don Delillo, Thomas Flanagan, William Kennedy, Cormac MacCarthy) to playwrights and theatre people (Harvey Fierstein, John Guare, Stephen Sondheim, August Wilson), and science fiction and popular authors (Raymond Carver, Stephen King, Harold Robbins, Theodore Sturgeon). Many more entries have been expanded to take account of work written since the publication of the last edition (Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike). Leininger has also endeavoured to widen the scope of the book by adding entries on women (M. F. K. Fisher, Ursula Le Guin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gloria Steinhem), as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and other ethnic groups. The Companions Chronological Index includes new literary and social notes that bring it right up to date. While there are a number of reference works dealing with American literature, none of them have the stature and authority of the Oxford Companion, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.