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  • Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground

    From Obscurity to Literary Icon

    by A. Debritto ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work, Second Edition

    by Steve Behrends ...
    Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the "Three Musketeers" of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most distinctive (and controversial) fantastic fiction to ever appear in Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories. His "City ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Margaret Hill McCarter

    by Margaret Hill McCarter ...
    The Complete Works of Margaret Hill McCarterMargaret Hill McCarter was an American teacher and novelist.This collection includes the following:Vanguards of the PlainsA Master's DegreeWinning the WildernessThe Price of the PrairieThe Reclaimers ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature Since 1870

    Enriched edition. Exploring American Literary Evolution: Icons, Genres, and Movements Since 1870

    by Fred Lewis Pattee, Alexis Prichard ...
    In "A History of American Literature Since 1870," Fred Lewis Pattee offers a comprehensive examination of the evolution of American literary traditions from the post-Civil War period to the early twentieth century. This seminal work is notable for its organized structure, presenting a detailed analysis of prominent literary movements such as realism, naturalism, and modernism, while situating key ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

    Edited by John N. Duvall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Paul Auster

    by Mark Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified optimism, the book shows ... Read more

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  • The Musical Novel

    Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

    by Emily Petermann ...
    What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Monopolizing the Master

    Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship

    by Michael Anesko ...
    Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Nos Populus

    by Ian Roberts ...
    With the end of America's wars in the Middle East, charismatic expat James Reso returns home to a deeply polarized country. Detesting President Dennis Ward's cynical authoritarianism, James and his friends create the political party Nos Populus: "We The People." Using mass protests and audacious theatrics, Nos Populus becomes the de facto opposition to the Wardists, while James rockets to ... Read more

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  • Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism

    by Dr Alexander Howard ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to postmodern culture in America. Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism is the first book-length scholarly study of this important literary figure. Drawing on new archival research – ... Read more

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    Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature

    by Jason Richards ...
    How did early Americans define themselves? The American exceptionalist perspective tells us that the young republic rejected Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in order to isolate a national culture and a white national identity. Imitativeness at this time was often seen as antithetical to self and national creation, but Jason Richards argues that imitation was in fact central to ... Read more

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  • Sustaining New Orleans

    Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City

    by Barbara Eckstein ...
    This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice. ... Read more

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