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  • The Body of Property

    Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

    by Chad Luck ...
    What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions.Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    by Laurie Rozakis ...
    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of It Can't Happen Here

    Based on the Book by Sinclair Lewis

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of It Can't Happen Here tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Sinclair Lewis's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of It Can't Happen Here includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Philip Roth ...
    On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Responding to Loss

    Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film

    by Robert Mugerauer ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Arthur Miller's America

    Theater and Culture in a Time of Change

    Edited by Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, and playwright Arthur Miller's theater as it reflects the changing moral equations of his time. Written on the occasion of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Works of Catharine Sedgwick

    (7 Works)

    by Catharine Sedgwick ...
    Series series Unsecretbooks publication
    Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". She promoted Republican motherhood. Miss Sedgwick’s first publication was “The New England Tale.” In 1836, she commenced writing in quite a new vein, giving a series of illustrations of common life, called “The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man.” These were followed, in 1837, by “Live and ... Read more

    $1.12 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Agon of Interpretations

    Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics

    by Ming Xie ...
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Agon of Interpretations explores the challenges and possibilities of critical intercultural hermeneutics in a globalized world. Editor Ming Xie and writers from eight countries on five continents not only lay out the importance of critical hermeneutics to intercultural understanding but also probe the conditions under which a hermeneutics ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Interrogating Popular Culture

    Key Questions

    by Stacy Takacs ...
    Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing:Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Exemplarity and Singularity

    Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law

    Edited by Michele Lowrie, Susanne Lüdemann ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law – genres that also ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Family Money

    Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

    by Jeffory Clymer ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Close Listening

    Poetry and the Performed Word

    Edited by Charles Bernstein ...
    Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as ... Read more

    $44.99 USD