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“barbara eckstein”

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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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  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... Read more

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  • On Poetry and Craft

    Selected Prose

    by Theodore Roethke ...
    Series series Writing Re: Writing
    "One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools."Art is our ... Read more

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  • Susan Glaspell in Context

    American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

    by J. Ellen Gainor ...
    Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown ... Read more

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  • Set in Motion

    Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries like Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, and Williams while creating a compelling style and an ... Read more

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  • The Poetics of Transition

    Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

    by Jonathan Levin ...
    Series series New Americanists
    The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement—is infused with power. He then offers a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

    Edited by Philip M. Weinstein ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre. Bringing into focus the broader cultural context which lent its resonance to his work, the collection will be particularly useful for the student seeking critical ... Read more

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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

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

    Edited by Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are ... Read more

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  • The Textuality of Soulwork

    Jack Kerouac's Quest for Spontaneous Prose

    by Timothy Hunt ...
    Series series Editorial Theory And Literary Criticism
    Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical ... Read more

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  • Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

    by Anthony Carlton Cooke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that cultural fascination with the “madperson” stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization—the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care. Anthony Carlton Cooke explores the reciprocal spheres of influence between deinstitutionalization, ... Read more

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