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“erik bledsoe”

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  • Getting Naked with Harry Crews

    Interviews

    Edited by Erik Bledsoe ...
    Interviews with novelist Harry Crews about his life, work, and writing craftIn these 26 interviews conducted between 1972 and 1997, novelist Harry Crews tells the truth—about why and how he writes, about the literary influences on his own work, about the writers he admires (or does not), about which of his own books he likes (or does not), about his fascination with so-called "freaks." Crews ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Perspectives on Harry Crews

    Edited by Erik Bledsoe ...

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

    Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music ... Read more

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  • The Road to Monticello

    The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

    by Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by ... Read more

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
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  • The Other Blacklist

    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

    by Mary Washington ...
    Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work ... Read more

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  • Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory

    Edited by Cirino, Mark P. Ott ...
    Ernest Hemingway’s work reverberates with a blend of memory, geography, and lessons of life revealed through the trauma of experience. Michigan, Italy, Spain, Paris, Africa, and the Gulf Stream are some of the most distinctive settings in Hemingway’s short fiction, novels, articles, and correspondence. In his fiction, Hemingway revisited these sites, reimagining and transforming them. Travel was ... Read more

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  • Alien Capital

    Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

    by Iyko Day ...
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  • Left of the Color Line

    Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States

    Edited by Bill V. Mullen, James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of ... Read more

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    The Cultural History of the Great American Novel

    by Bob Batchelor ...
    Series series Contemporary American Literature
    In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced his third novel, a slim work for which he had high expectations. Despite such hopes, the novel received mixed reviews and lackluster sales. Over the decades, however, the reputation of The Great Gatsby has grown and millions of copies have been sold. One of the bestselling novels of all time, it is also considered one of the most significant achievements in ... Read more

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    The Spiritual Vision of the Beats

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