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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Eugene O'Neill Remembered

    Edited by Brenda Murphy, George Monteiro ...
    Series series American Writers Remembered
    Eugene O’Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright’s life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O’Neill.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 ... Read more

    $21.59 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

  • 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

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  • Tributes

    American Writers on American Writers

    by Bradford Morrow, Martine Bellen, Lee Smith ...
    Series Book 29 - Conjunctions
    Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers.For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $36.89 USD