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  • Reading the Wind

    The Literature of the Vietnam War

    by Timothy J. Lomperis, John Clark Pratt ...
    The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Philip Roth ...
    On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding David Mamet

    by Brenda Murphy ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An introduction to the one of the most influential contemporary American playwrightsUnderstanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the past three decades, Mamet has written more than thirty produced plays and garnered recognition as one of the most ... Read more

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  • Arthur Miller's America

    Theater and Culture in a Time of Change

    Edited by Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, and playwright Arthur Miller's theater as it reflects the changing moral equations of his time. Written on the occasion of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Understanding Pat Conroy

    by Catherine Seltzer ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An insightful look at the life and work of the extraordinary popular Southern writer.Pat Conroy's novels and memoirs have indelibly shaped the image of the South in the American imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and has staked out a more complex geography as well—one defined by domestic trauma, racial ... Read more

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  • A Voice Still Heard

    Selected Essays of Irving Howe

    by Irving Howe ...
    Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America’s most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe’s work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Poem Is You

    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Bitter Tastes

    Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing

    by Donna M. Campbell ...
    Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • African Culture and Melville's Art

    The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

    by Sterling Stuckey ...
    Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, the impact of African culture on these works has received surprisingly little critical attention. Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Understanding Norman Mailer

    by Maggie McKinley ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    The first book of literary criticism to examine this Pulitzer Prize winner's entire body of workAs a renowned novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, speaker, aspiring politician, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Norman Mailer was one of the most prominent American literary and cultural figures of the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of his expansive sixty-year career ... Read more

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  • Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound

    by Noel Stock ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1967, this is a study which tackles the central problem of meaning, within Ezra Pound's The Cantos. It deals with the question of important critical issues, as well as of interpretation and understanding. Students of modern poetry will derive great benefit from this vigorous and lucid analysis of Pound's masterpiece. Noel Stock's finding is radical: that The Cantos is not a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace

    Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

    by Professor Adam S. Miller ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes - from boredom to addiction, and distraction – in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists.In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the bookjoins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute ... Read more

    $30.79 USD