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  • The Intimacies of Conflict

    Cultural Memory and the Korean War

    by Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture AssociationEnables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memoryThough often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

    Edited by Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting ... Read more

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    Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

    First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature. ... Read more

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  • The Stray Bullet

    William S. Burroughs in Mexico

    Translated by Daniel C. Schechter ...
    William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures—including a scheme to grow marijuana in Texas and sell it in New York—and an already long history ... Read more

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  • Last Looks, Last Books

    Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

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    Series series Bollingen Series
    Modern American poets writing in the face of deathIn Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as ... Read more

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  • Ledgers of History

    William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary

    by Sally Wolff ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a fifty-year tradition of leading students on expeditions to "Faulkner country" in and around Oxford, Mississippi. Not long ago, she decided to invite alumni on one of these field trips. One response to the invitation surprised her: "I can't go on the trip. But I knew William Faulkner." They were the words of Dr. Edgar Wiggin Francisco III, and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

    Edited by Ezra Tawil ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah ... Read more

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  • The Biopolitics of Feeling

    Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

    by Kyla Schuller ...
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    In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. ... Read more

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  • Interrogating Popular Culture

    Key Questions

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    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

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  • Conversations with W. S. Merwin

    Edited by Michael Wutz, Hal Crimmel ...
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    Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences (Robert Graves and Ezra Pound), his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, and his extraordinary work as a translator, ... Read more

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  • Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition

    by Lena Hill ...
    Series Book 167 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American literary history, from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison, and engages with a variety of canonical ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature Since 1870

    Enriched edition. Exploring American Literary Evolution: Icons, Genres, and Movements Since 1870

    In "A History of American Literature Since 1870," Fred Lewis Pattee offers a comprehensive examination of the evolution of American literary traditions from the post-Civil War period to the early twentieth century. This seminal work is notable for its organized structure, presenting a detailed analysis of prominent literary movements such as realism, naturalism, and modernism, while situating key ... Read more

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