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“jeffrey severs”

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  • Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender

    by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Simon de Bourcier, Catherine Flay, Marie Franco, Doug Haynes, Luc Herman, Molly Hite, Kostas Kaltsas, Christopher P. Kocela, John Krafft, Angus McFadzean, Richard Moss, Jeffrey Severs ...
    Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon’s representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books

    Fictions of Value

    by Jeffrey Severs ...
    What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving it beyond an emotionless postmodern irony. Jeffrey Severs argues in David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books that Wallace was ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Pynchon's Against the Day

    A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

    by Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Graham Benton, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Amy J. Elias, Kathryn Hume, Martin Kevorkian, Elisabeth McKetta, J Paul Narkunas, Krzysztof Piekarski, Terry Reilly, Justin St. Clair, Christopher K. Coffman, Brian McHale ...
    Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades—from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I—and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. The book’s eleven essays by ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

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  • On Writers & Writing

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  • The Complete Works of Margaret Hill McCarter

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    The Complete Works of Margaret Hill McCarterMargaret Hill McCarter was an American teacher and novelist.This collection includes the following:Vanguards of the PlainsA Master's DegreeWinning the WildernessThe Price of the PrairieThe Reclaimers ... Read more

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