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“daniel k green”

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  • Beyond the Blurb

    On Critics and Criticism

    by Daniel K. Green ...
    Beyond the Blurb is a selection of essays that identifies the most important principles of literary criticism and considers the relevance of those principles in the work of specific literary critics, including James Wood, Harold Bloom, and Susan Sontag. Intended for academic and general readers alike, this insightful collection of essays takes a contrarian attitude toward current orthodoxies—its ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Beyond the Blurb

    On Critics and Criticism

    by Daniel K. Green ...
    Beyond the Blurb is a selection of essays that identifies the most important principles of literary criticism and considers the relevance of those principles in the work of specific literary critics, including James Wood, Harold Bloom, and Susan Sontag. Intended for academic and general readers alike, this insightful collection of essays takes a contrarian attitude toward current orthodoxies—its ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The House of Mirth - Unabridged

    by Edith Wharton ...
    "The House of Mirth" was the breakthrough novel for Edith Wharton and its immediate commercial and critical success put her on the American literary map.Based on Wharton's own experiences among the elite of the New York City social set in the late 1890's, "The House of Mirth" is both a fascinating glimpse into the upper-reaches of high society and a searing satire of the cruelties, frivolities and ... Read more

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  • Abroad

    British Literary Traveling between the Wars

    by Paul Fussell ...
    A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s. ... Read more

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  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    by George Hutchinson ...
    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Hemingway Log

    A Chronology of His Life and Times

    by Brewster Chamberlin ...
    Click here to read Revisions, Corrections, and Additions to The Hemingway Log.Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer’s life... ... Read more

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  • American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

    A Critical Reassessment

    Edited by Steven Belletto, Daniel Grausam ...
    Series series New American Canon
    The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Great American Read: Book of Books

    Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    by PBS ...
    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious series.What are America's best-loved novels? PBS launched The Great American Read series with a two-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's one hundred best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Stephen King's Gothic

    by John Sears ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    Explores the works of Stephen King, one of the world’s best-selling horror writers, through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. This title argues that King’s writing explores many of the issues analysed by critics and philosophers. ... Read more

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  • The Properties of Violence

    Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching

    by Sandy Alexandre ...
    The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature—as an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Panic Fiction

    Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis

    by Mary Templin ...
    Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors such as Hannah Lee, Catharine Sedgwick, Eliza Follen, Maria McIntosh, and Maria Cummins wrote dozens of novels ... Read more

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