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  • Clowns in the Burying Ground

    The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Christopher K. Coffman ...
    Series series Studies in the Grateful Dead
    In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band’s lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged with the literary tradition. Through an analysis of their music, lyrics, and biographies, Coffman shows how the group and its individual members drew on the canons of European and American literature to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • After Postmodernism

    The New American Fiction

    Edited by Christopher K. Coffman, Theophilus Savvas ...
    Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear.This volume identifies four prominent trends of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rewriting Early America

    The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature

    by Christopher K. Coffman ...
    Recent poems and fictions set in the early Americas are typically read as affirmations of cultural norms, as evidence of the impossibility of genuine engagement with the historical past, or as contentious repudiations of received histories. Inspired particularly by Mihai Spariosu’s arguments regarding literary playfulness as an opening to peace, Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • William T. Vollmann

    A Critical Companion

    by Georg Bauer, Carla Bolte, Aaron Chandler, Heather Corcoran, John K. Cox, Okla Elliott, James Franco, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Glawogger, Mariya Gusev, Joshua Jensen, Priscilla Juvelis, Miles Liebtag, Larry McCaffery, Françoise Palleau-Papin, Melissa Petro, Jordan A. Rothacker, Bryan Santin, Geoffrey D. Smith, Mary Austin Speaker, Michael K. Walonen, Buell Wisner ...
    "This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Pynchon's Against the Day

    A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

    by Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Graham Benton, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Amy J. Elias, Kathryn Hume, Martin Kevorkian, Elisabeth McKetta, J Paul Narkunas, Krzysztof Piekarski, Terry Reilly, Justin St. Clair, Christopher K. Coffman, Brian McHale ...
    Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades—from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I—and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. The book’s eleven essays by ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edited by Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Don't Read Poetry

    A Book About How to Read Poems

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    “At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetryIn Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how ... Read more

    Was $17.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • You Are What You Read

    A Practical Guide to Reading Well

    by Robert DiYanni ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

    by Sara Upstone ...
    Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Beautiful & Pointless

    A Guide to Modern Poetry

    by David Orr ...
    "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom PerrottaAward-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

    by H. Porter Abbott ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary ... Read more

    $30.39 USD