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  • The Presence of Camões

    Influences on the Literature of England, America, and Southern Africa

    by George Monteiro ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camões (c. 1524- 1580) remains perhaps the least known outside his native Portugal, and his influence on literature in English has not been fully recognized. In this major work of comparative scholarship, George Monteiro thus breaks new ground, focusing on English-language writers whose vision and expression have been sharpened by their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Reading Henry James

    A Critical Perspective on Selected Works

    by George Monteiro ...
    Henry James (1843-1916) has been championed as an historian of social conscience and attacked as a spokesman for social privilege. His Americanness has been questioned by nativists and defended by Brahmins. Critics took issue with his lucidly complex style. "It's not that he bites off more than he can chew, but that he chews more than he bites off," a contemporary complained. Although he was an ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup

    Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America

    by George Monteiro ...
    Series Book 5 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
    Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States. The book discusses subjects and themes that reflect the richness and diversity of this culture. Included are analyses of the Portuguese fondness for nicknames over surnames, pejorative terms ("portugee," "Gee"), beau ideal heroes (John Philip Sousa, John Dos Passos, and Peter ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Hemingway Short Story

    A Critical Appreciation

    by George Monteiro ...
    Ernest Hemingway revolutionized the American short story, establishing himself as a master of realist fiction in the tradition of Guy de Mauppasant. Yet none of Hemingway's emulators has succeeded in duplicating his understated, minimalist style. In his Iceberg Theory of fiction, only the tip of the story is seen on the surface--the rest is submerged out of sight.This study surveys the scope of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Robert Frost's Poetry of Rural Life

    by George Monteiro ...
    "Wise old Vergil says in one of his Georgics, 'Praise large farms, stick to small ones,'" Robert Frost said. "Twenty acres are just about enough." Frost started out as a school teacher living the rural life of a would-be farmer, and later turned to farming full time when he bought a place of his own. After a sojourn in England where his first two books were published to critical acclaim, he ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance

    by George Monteiro ...
    "A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written." So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost's most valuable poems by demonstrating the ways in which they circulate among the constellations of great poems and essays of the New England Renaissance ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Presence of Pessoa

    English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses

    by George Monteiro ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pessoa's Mensagem (Message) and the modernist novella 0 Banqueiro Anarquista (The Anarchist Banker). But he is primarily ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Stephen Crane

    The Contemporary Reviews

    by George Monteiro ...
    Series Book 17 - American Critical Archives
    Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was a controversial figure in American literature and journalism. In a literary career that lasted a mere decade he produced short stories, novellas, novels and poetry for which he was both lauded and reviled. With The Red Badge of Courage he entered the American canon. Despite Crane's lack of experience of war at the time of the novel's composition, it is a classic of ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • Eugene O'Neill Remembered

    Edited by Brenda Murphy, George Monteiro ...
    Series series American Writers Remembered
    A primary-source portrait of Eugene O’Neill through the voices that knew him.Known principally as the author of some of the most significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America’s Nobel Laureates in literature, O'Neill rarely gave interviews and offered few details about himself. As a consequence, his life has long been shrouded in myth. He also abetted some of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Translated Poe

    by Bouchra Benlemlih, Hivren Demir-Atay, Marlene Hansen Esplin, Lenita Esteves, Ástráður Eysteinsson, Zongxin Feng, Maria Filippakopoulou, Daniel Göske, Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby, Aimei Ji, Henri Justin, Woosung Kang, Marius Littschwager, J. Scott Miller, George Monteiro, Rafael Olea Franco, Elvira Osipova, Renata Philippov, Margarita Rigal-Aragón, Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan, Christopher Rollason, Ugo Rubeo, Takayuki Tatsumi, Alexandra Urakova, Pamela Vicenteño Bravo, Lois Davis Vines, Johan Wijkmark, Eysteinn Þorvaldsson, Ayse Nihal Akbulut, Liviu Cotrau, Daniela Haisan ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe’s extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    The Last Gangster

    From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob

    by George Anastasia ...
    Narrated by Chris Monteiro ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    As a cop, Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story—the story of the last days of the Philadelphia Mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. For thirty-five years, Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six–foot, three-hundred–pound capo in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    Gotti's Rules

    The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia

    by George Anastasia ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster—“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)—comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man John Alite, a close associate of Junior Gotti who later testified against him.In Gotti’s Rules, George ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook