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Consuming the American Dream

Essays Celebrating the Intersection of Food, Literature, and Our National Myth

Edited by Robert C. Hauhart, Jeff Birkenstein ...

Many genres of American literature, including memoirs, short stories, novels, plays, creative nonfiction, and even cookbooks, explore the American Dream within their prose. Many of these texts also introduce and rely on evocations of food: its importance; its presence or absence; its physical, social, and nutritional significance; and its place in relation to the “good life” and the quest to live ... Read more

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Many genres of American literature, including memoirs, short stories, novels, plays, creative nonfiction, and even cookbooks, explore the American Dream within their prose. Many of these texts also introduce and rely on evocations of food: its importance; its presence or absence; its physical, social, and nutritional significance; and its place in relation to the “good life” and the quest to live
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American Modernism (Re)Considered

Edited by Robert C. Hauhart, Ph.D. Jeff Birkenstein ...

What exactly is modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart?American Modernism (Re)Considered questions the principal distinction between modernism and other genres/movements/styles in literature through new critical readings of canonical modernist texts alongside texts which pose a problem for modernism due to their ambiguous, if ... Read more

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What exactly is modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart?American Modernism (Re)Considered questions the principal distinction between modernism and other genres/movements/styles in literature through new critical readings of canonical modernist texts alongside texts which pose a problem for modernism due to their ambiguous, if
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Significant Food

Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature

by Ericka Birkenstein, Anton Smith, Greg Hartley, Katy Lewis, Shelley A. Ingram, Sanghamitra Dalal, Méliné Kasparian-Le Fèvre, Molly Mann, Carrie Tippen, Rachel Fernandes, Edward Chamberlain, Mary-Lynn Chambers, Heidi Oberholtzer Lee, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Serena Demichelis ...

Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption ... Read more

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Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption
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Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story

by Naruhiko Mikado, Iren Boyarkina, Irina Golovacheva, Maria Krivosheina, Sahar J. Al-Keshwan, Laura Ryan, Pedro Querido, Durthy A. Washington, Frank P. Fury, Kevin Lucas, Kiyoko Magome, Anastasia G. Pease, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Lucky Issar, Christine Tachick Kern, Emrys Donaldson ...

In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well ... Read more

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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well
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Classroom on the Road

Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel

by Nicholas Artman, Joshua Azriel, Jeff Birkenstein, Patricia English-Schneider, Irina Gendelman, Darlene M. Hantzis, Mat Hardy, Christine Holtz, Ann D. Jabro0, Jeannine Jones1, Shana Kopaczewski2, Igor Krasnov3, Sally Totman4, Jana Mathews5, Jamie Olson6, Heather Pinson7, Karen Link Rosenflanz8, Emily Russell9, Douglas Strahler0, Phillip A. Voight1, Robin Canfield2, Raymond Blanton3, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett4, Tracy Everbach5, Alissa Burger6, Kelli Stiles7, Michelle Fukuyama8, Cord A. Scott9, Kathleen M. Vandenberg0 ...

Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world, out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism. Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be responsible and thoughtful ... Read more

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Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world, out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism. Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be responsible and thoughtful
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The Cinema of Terry Gilliam

It's a Mad World

Edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, Karen Randell ...

Series series Directors' Cuts
Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original ... Read more

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Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original
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Reframing 9/11

Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror"

Edited by Ph.D. Jeff Birkenstein, Dr. Anna Froula, PhD Karen Randell ...

September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international ... Read more

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September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an international
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European Writers in Exile

by Katherine Ashley, Rowena Clarke, Johannes Evelein, Charlotte Fiehn, Irina Golovacheva, Shmuel Lederman, Liani Lochner, Kelly C. MacPhail, Brindusa Nicolaescu, Marion Rohrleitner, Svetlana Stefanova, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Andrea Gay Tyndall, Katarzyna Balzewska ...

European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that address the writers’ universal existential dilemma, when viewed through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I write, and to whom? While we often understand the term “exile” to refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be defined ... Read more

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European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that address the writers’ universal existential dilemma, when viewed through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I write, and to whom? While we often understand the term “exile” to refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be defined
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Surviving the Crossing

(Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen

by Jessica Rabin ...

Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. ... Read more

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By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity.
... Read more
Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics

by Kristin K. Winet, Abby L. Wilkerson, Winona Landis, Alexis M. Baker, Arlene Voski Avakian, Carrie Helms Tippen, Erin Branch, Abby M. Dubisar, Lynn Z. Bloom, Elizabeth Lowry, Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Tammie M Kennedy, Consuelo Carr Salas, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Jennifer E. Courtney, S. Morgan Gresham, Rebecca Ingalls, Sara Hillin ...

Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.Contributors analyze messages about food and bodies—from what a person watches and reads ... Read more

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Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.Contributors analyze messages about food and bodies—from what a person watches and reads
... Read more
The Program Era

Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

by Mark McGurl ...

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling ... Read more

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In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling
... Read more
The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature

Edited by Leslie Bow, Russ Castronovo ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks of Literature
An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of tools and perspectives to the rich and diverse traditions of American literary production. The editors have turned to leading as ... Read more

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An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of tools and perspectives to the rich and diverse traditions of American literary production. The editors have turned to leading as
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