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“dr david hering”

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  • David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form

    by Dr. David Hering ...
    In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the rapidly expanding field of Wallace scholarship, this book argues that the form of Wallace's fiction is ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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    American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

    Edited by Professor Debra Shostak ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    A cutting-edge collection of original essays on American literary giant Philip Roth offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of recent texts. ... Read more

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  • The Senses of Walden

    An Expanded Edition

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson. ... Read more

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  • Critical Regionalism

    Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

    by Douglas Reichert Powell ...
    The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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  • Hemingway and Women

    Female Critics and the Female Voice

    by Rena Sanderson, Gail Sinclair, Jamie Barlowe, Kathy G. Willingham, Lisa Tyler, Amy Strong, Linda Patterson Miller, Linda Wagner-Martin, Ann Putnam, Debra A. Moddelmog, Miriam B. Mandel, Hilary K. Justice, Kim Moreland, Nancy R. Comley, Rose Marie Burwell, Sandra Spanier ...
    Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writersErnest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from women scholars who challenge traditional views of Hemingway and women. The essays in this collection range ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Obscure Invitations

    The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature

    by Benjamin Widiss ...
    Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure Invitations argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Ambiguous Borderlands

    Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture

    by Erik Mortenson ...
    The image of the shadow in mid-twentieth-century America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on an extensive framework that ranges from Cold War cultural histories to theorizations of psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Erik Mortenson argues that shadow imagery in 1950s and 1960s American culture not only reflected the anxiety and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Passing the Word

    Writers on Their Mentors

    Edited by Jeffrey Skinner, Lee Martin ...
    An “entertaining collection of tributes and insights” from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist).In this “significant contribution to our understanding of how an older generation of writers . . . affected its students”, an assembly of diverse and distinguished talents explore the relevance of their mentors. Together, in this unique anthology of ... Read more

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  • Schooling Readers

    Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

    by Allison Speicher ...
    Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction—though now often forgotten—set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century.Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts ... Read more

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  • The Literature of Reconstruction

    Not in Plain Black and White

    by Brook Thomas ...
    Reconstruction-era literature helped shape an ongoing national debate about proper remedies to racial wrongs.In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evokes literature’s immediacy to recreate arguments still unresolved today about state versus federal authority, the government’s role in education, the growing power of banks and corporations, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • TransLatin Joyce

    Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature

    Edited by B. Price, C. Salgado, J. Schwartz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD