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  • Understanding Colum McCann

    by John Cusatis ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    The first critical approach to the literary career of the 2009 National Book Award winnerUnderstanding Colum McCann chronicles the Irish-born writer's journey to literary celebrity from his days as a teenage sportswriter for the Irish Press in the 1970s, through the publication of his award-winning first story, "Tresses," in 1990, to his winning the 2009 National Book Award in fiction for the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations with Ted Kooser

    Edited by John Cusatis ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary. His candor, clarity, and eloquence, which distinguish Kooser’s plentiful body of work, color these edifying and entertaining conversations.The interviews in Conversations with Ted Kooser ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Conversations with Billy Collins

    Edited by John Cusatis ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Billy Collins “puts the ‘fun’ back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called “hospitable” poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins was fifty-seven when ... Read more

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  • Conversations with John Banville

    Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll, John Cusatis ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for it, his passion for painting continues to influence and inform his work. Banville conceives the novel as a work of art aimed not at the present, ... Read more

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    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    The stories are set during the Roaring Twenties and explore the experiences and desires of the young men and women of the era, particularly the "flappers" who challenged traditional gender roles and social norms.The collection includes some of Fitzgerald's most iconic stories, such as "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," which tells the story of a young woman who transforms herself from a social misfit into a ... Read more

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  • The Shape of the Signifier

    1967 to the End of History

    by Walter Benn Michaels ...
    The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute ... Read more

    $26.69 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

    $31.49 USD

  • Red Land, Red Power

    Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

    by Sean Kicummah Teuton, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Industry and the Creative Mind

    The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

    by Sandra Tomc ...
    Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life for American audiences by the gloomy person of Edgar Allan Poe, was a figure of rebellion against ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Gender and Lynching

    The Politics of Memory

    by Evelyn M. Simien ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

    by Eric Cheyfitz ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays consider the complex social and political influences that have shaped American Indian literatures in the second half of the twentieth century, with ... Read more

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  • American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

    Edited by Bryce Traister ...
    This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational ... Read more

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