An Excerpt from Form and Fable in American Fiction&Daniel Hoffman 1
An Excerpt from America's Coming of Age&Van Wyck Brooks 59
An Excerpt from The Twenties:American Writing in the Postwar Decade&Frederick John Hoffman 67
An Excerpt from The Colloquial Style in America&Richard Bridgman 101
An Excerpt from Writers on the Left&Daniel Aaron 146
An Excerpt from On Native Grounds&Alfred Kazin 172
An Excerpt from Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd&Charles Burt Harris 234
APPENDICES"Psychology and Form"&Kenneth Burke 259
"Individualism and the American Writer"&Newton Arvin 272
"Marxism and Literature"&Edmund Wilson 279
"Freud and Literature"&Lionel Trilling 297
"The End of Modern Literature:Existentialism and Crisis"&William Barrett 321
Contemporary American Poetry&David Perkins 332
Twentieth-Century American Drama&C.W.E.Bigsby 358
Modern American Drama&C.W.E.Bigsby 379