AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE

American Tradition In Literature

American Tradition In Literature

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 Farleigh Dickinson University. His books include the theory of the American novel, realistic American short fiction, American poetic theory, the Harper handbook to literature (with Northrop 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).

This book presents the review of the historical background has two starting points - the northern European tradition and the North American tradition. The northern European includes countries such as the Scandinavian countries, the former West-Germany and the Netherlands. The North American tradition includes countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Pacific Rim cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong etc. This division into two traditions comes from the British architect Francis Duffy (1999). The two traditions could just as well been called the low office building tradition and the tall office building tradition. The low applies to the north European tradition and the tall to the North American tradition. The latter definition emphasizes the architectural differences between the two traditions, whilst the former puts emphasis on the location ...