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  • The Vital Lie

    Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama

    by Anthony S. Abbott ...
    The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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    Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier

    by John Jennings ...
    Series Book 6 - The West
    The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Nancy Cunard

    Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

    by Lois Gordon ...
    Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

    Edited by Catherine Ross Nickerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    by Katherine Morrison ...
    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Robert S. Levine ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction

    by Peter Ferry ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues that New York authors do not simply depict masculinity as a social and historical construction but seek to challenge the archetypal ideals of masculinity by writing counter-hegemonic narratives.Gendering canonical New ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Influencing Hemingway

    People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work

    by Nancy W Sindelar ...
    Ernest Hemingway embraced adventure and courted glamorous friends while writing articles, novels, and short stories that captivated the world. Hemingway's personal relationships and experiences influenced the content of his fiction, while the progression of places where the author chose to live and work shaped his style and rituals of writing. Whether revisiting the Italian front in A Farewell to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suture and Narrative

    Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film

    by GEORGE BUTTE ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film by George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and film narratives use particular techniques to create and represent the experience of community. Butte turns to the concept of suture from Lacanian film theory and to the work of Merleau-Ponty to contribute a deeper and broader approach to intersubjectivity ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Disappear Here

    Violence after Generation X

    by Naomi Mandel ...
    Generation X, comprised of people born between 1960 and 1980, is a generation with no Great War or Depression to define it. Dismissed as apathetic slackers and detached losers, Xers have a striking disregard for the causes and isms that defined their Boomer parents. In Disappear Here: Violence after Generation X, Naomi Mandel argues that this characterization of Generation X can be traced back to ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Emerson's Protégés

    Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

    by Prof. David Dowling ...
    In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Unnatural Ecopoetics

    Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry

    by Sarah Nolan ...
    What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban, or even cultural. Yet, few of the works produced to date have addressed the pronounced influence the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD