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  • Understanding Charles Sealsfield, Understanding America

    by Jerry Schuchalter ...
    Series Book 79 - German Studies in America
    «Schuchalter’s comprehensive study of the enigmatic author Charles Sealsfield is a welcome contribution to German-American studies. He convincingly explains the development of Sealsfield’s political philosophy: After having fled Europe, the former Catholic priest discovered liberalism and saw its promises fulfilled in the New World before getting disgruntled with actual developments in the USA ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Norman Mailer and the Modernist Turn

    by Jerry Schuchalter ...
    Series Book 13 - American Culture
    This study is a comprehensive scholarly treatment of Norman Mailer’s entire œuvre, including not only his fiction and non-fiction, but also his correspondence, his early journal articles and his interviews. It outlines Mailer’s Entwicklungsgeschichte, illuminating the lines of continuity and discontinuity in his literary achievement and shows Mailer’s work to be firmly ensconced in the tradition ... Read more

    $90.29 USD

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    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fictionNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. In ... 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

  • Rewiring the Real

    In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    Series Book 12 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • HELEN OF TROY Classic Novels: New Illustrated

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Series series Classic Novels
    "HELEN OF TROY - Top Classic Novels" This edition included NEW illustrations + Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier.The text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the layout and feel of a physical copy, rather than being haphazardly thrown together for a quick release.Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Unlikely Collaboration

    Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

    by Barbara Will ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

    Edited by Janet Beer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and ... Read more

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  • Lady Liberty Enlightens the World : Interesting Facts about the Statue of Liberty - American History for Kids | Children's History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    When you look at Lady Liberty, you see a symbol of American freedom. But did you know that the statue was not even created in the US? There’s an interesting story behind it and this American history book will tell you all about it. To make history learning a lot easier, there are pictures to accompany the texts in this book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hard-Boiled Sentimentality

    The Secret History of American Crime Stories

    by Leonard Cassuto ...
    Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the ... Read more

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  • Pynchon and the Political

    by Samuel Thomas ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappers all too easily under the mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling ... Read more

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  • Realism for the Masses

    Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947

    by Chris Vials ...
    Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the left social movements of the ... Read more

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