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  • The Literary Quest for an American National Character

    by Finn Pollard ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    "What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

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  • Art Matters

    Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story

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    In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway ... Read more

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  • The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe Book

    The life, times, and work of a tormented genius

    by Shelley Costa Bloomfield ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    The genius and orphan son of itinerant actors, Poe led a tragic life and suffered greatly—as much at his own hands as those of Fate. Yet tragedy never stopped him from writing: poems, short stories, literary journalism, and even creating a new genre, the detective story—a contribution so great that the most prestigious writing award for crime fiction, given annually by the Mystery Writers of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

    Edited by Joy Porter, Kenneth M. Roemer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors ... Read more

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  • Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels

    by Jean Wyatt ...
    In Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels, Jean Wyatt explores the interaction among ideas of love, narrative innovation, and reader response in Toni Morrison’s seven later novels. Love comes in a new and surprising shape in each of the later novels; for example, Love presents it as the deep friendship between little girls; in Home it acts as a disruptive force producing deep ... Read more

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  • Spies and Holy Wars

    The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction

    by Reeva Spector Simon ...
    Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new ... Read more

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  • Whitman Possessed

    Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority

    by Mark Maslan ...
    Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his ... Read more

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  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    by Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Read more

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  • Dickinson Unbound

    Paper, Process, Poetics

    by Alexandra Socarides ...
    In Dickinson Unbound, Alexandra Socarides takes readers on a journey through the actual steps and stages of Emily Dickinson's creative process. In chapters that deftly balance attention to manuscripts, readings of poems, and a consideration of literary and material culture, Socarides takes up each of the five major stages of Dickinson's writing career: copying poems onto folded sheets of ... Read more

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  • Saris and a Single Malt

    by Sweta Srivastava Vikram ...
    Saris and a Single Malt is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The book spans the time from when the poet receives a phone call in New York City that her mother is in a hospital in New Delhi, to the time she carries out her mother's last rites. The poems chronicle the author's physical and emotional journey as she flies to India, tries to fight the ... Read more

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  • Writing Human Rights

    The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color

    by Crystal Parikh ...
    The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international human rights regime to read works by contemporary American writers of color—Toni Morrison, Chang ... Read more

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