Product Description
American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century - Cambridge Contexts in Literature
Author(s): Caroline Zilboorg
Format: Physical Hardcopy
T he literature written by Americans during the twentieth century encompasses a wide variety of voices; voices that attempt to capture the breadth and diversity of American experience in a century of dizzying change. This book examines the dramatic social changes and political events - such as the Great Depression, American involvement in the Second World War and the civil rights movement - that helped to shape American writing throughout the century.
Features:
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Each title includes a wide-ranging yet carefully levelled introductory discussion of a literary period, genre or theme, to provide students with an excellent introduction to an area of literature.
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Helps students to address the new assessment objective 4 ('demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received') - worth up to 35% of the A level qualification under new guidelines.
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Discussion questions and end-of-section tasks offer an invaluable resource for self study as well as helpful exam preparation.
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A mini-anthology of texts and extracts saves teachers time searching for appropriate 'wider reading' texts.
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