The art and imagination of Langston Hughes / R. Baxter Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, R. Baxter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Criticism and interpretation.

Hughes, Langston.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters.Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the var

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Introduction to the Original Edition; 1. ""For a Moment I Wondered"": The Autobiographical Imagination; 2. The ""Crystal Stair"" Within: The Apocalyptic Imagination; 3. ""Deep like the Rivers"": The Lyrical Imagination; 4. ""Oh, Mind of Man"": The Political Imagination; 5. ""I Heard Ma Rainey"": The Tragicomic Imagination; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 5, 2015).

ISBN:

9780813127187

0813127181

9780813191522

0813191521

9780813157436

0813157439

OCLC:

644623890