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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jay kleberg”
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  • The River and the Wall

    by Ben Masters, Jay Kleberg, Heather Mackey, Austin Alvarado, Filipe DeAndrade, Hillary Pierce, Colin McDonald, Geny Alvarado, Katy Baldock, Becky Jones, Korey Kaczmarek ...
    Series series Will and Pamela Nelson Harte Series on Water and the Environment, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    When a team of five explorers embarked on a 1,200-mile journey down the Rio Grande, the river that marks the southern boundary of Texas and the US-Mexico border, their goal was to experience and capture on film the rugged landscapes of this vast frontier before the controversial construction of a border wall changed this part of the river forever.The crew—Texas filmmaker Ben Masters, Brazilian ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

    Rereading “Travels with Charley”

    by Barbara A. Heavilin, Susan Shillinglaw, Robert DeMott, Danica Cerce, William P. Childers, Donald V. Coers, Cecilia Donohue, Charles Etheridge0, Mimi Reisel Gladstein1, Kathleen Hicks2, Carter Davis Johnson3, Gavin Jones4, Sally S. Kleberg5, Jay Parini6, Brian Railsback7, Nicholas P. Taylor8 ...
    A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

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    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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  • On Reading The Grapes of Wrath

    by Susan Shillinglaw ...
    In this compelling biography of a book, Susan Shillinglaw delves into John Steinbeck's classic to explore the cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact of The Grapes of Wrath upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy. First published in April 1939, Steinbeck's National Book Award-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s ... Read more

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  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Superhero Reader

    Edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • 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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  • Study Guide to Of Mice and Men and Other Works by John Steinbeck

    by Intelligent Education ...
    Series series Bright Notes
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works byJohn Steinbeck's, 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Titles in this study guide include The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, and The Winter of our Discontent.As an author of the Civil Rights Era, Steinbeck effectively writes symbolic structures and conveys ... Read more

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  • Charles Bukowski

    Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast

    by David Charlson ...
    Charles Bukowski disliked academics, as this academic and readable book points out from page one onward of its introduction, "Charles Bukowski vs. American Ways." Begun before Bukowski died in 1994, Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast was the first doctoral dissertation on his prose and poetry up to that date, and it is offered now for fans and academics alike-no more need ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Read more

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  • Grant Morrison

    Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics

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    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His comics range from bestsellers featuring the most universally recognized superhero franchises (All ... Read more

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