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  • Universities as Engines of Economic Development

    Making Knowledge Exchange Work

    by Edward Crawley, John Hegarty, Kristina Edström, Juan Cristobal Garcia Sanchez ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book describes patterns of behavior that collectively allow universities to exchange knowledge more effectively with industry, accelerate innovation and eventually contribute to economic development. These are based on the effective practices of leading and ambitious universities around the world that the authors have benchmarked, and the personal experiences of the authors in a number of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Structure of Leaves of Grass

    by Thomas Edward Crawley ...
    Modern critics and contemporary readers familiar with the field of Whitman criticism may find surprising an analysis of the structure of Leaves of Grass that concerns itself with Whitman as the poet-prophet and the identification of Whitman (or of his persona in the poem) with Christ. Early twentieth-century criticism has tended to exalt the early Whitman at the expense of the later one and to ... Read more

    $23.79 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

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  • Exile's Return

    A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal ... Read more

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  • Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead

    by Tim Dayton ...
    The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men—likely somewhere between 700 and 800—died of acute silicosis ... Read more

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  • What Would Jesus Read?

    Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America

    by Erin A. Smith ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion, and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining the apparent tension between economic and religious imperatives for authors, publishers, and ... Read more

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  • The Dialect of Modernism

    Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Michael North ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers in ... Read more

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  • Reading the Wind

    The Literature of the Vietnam War

    by Timothy J. Lomperis, John Clark Pratt ...
    The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Edited by Richard H. Millington ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels ... Read more

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  • Vladimir Nabokov

    A Literary Life

    by D. Rampton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time. ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Collaborations

    Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Mary Louise Kete ...
    Series series New Americanists
    During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University’s commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the effect of sentiment in his life. In telling how an accident involving his son had provided him with a revelation concerning the compassion of others, Gore effectively reconstructed himself as a typical, ... Read more

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  • Rooting Memory, Rooting Place

    Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South

    by C. Lloyd ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD