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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joseph csicsila”
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  • Canons by Consensus

    Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

    by Joseph Csicsila ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last centuryScholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Mark Twain and Money

    Language, Capital, and Culture

    by Henry B. Wonham, Lawrence Howe, Lawrence Howe, Judith Yaross Lee, Mark Schiebe, Ann M. Ryan, Gregg Camfield, Joseph Csicsila0, Susanne Weil1, M. Christine Benner Dixon2, Sharon McCoy3, Jonathan Hayes4, Jeffery W. Miller5 ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens’s often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore ... Read more

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems (The Classics Collection)

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication. Some of the most notable are: Tales: • "The Fall of the House of Usher" • "The Masque of the Red Death" • "The Pit and the Pendulum" • "The Premature Burial" • "The Purloined Letter" • "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poems: • "Annabel Lee" • "The Bells" • "The City in ... Read more

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  • Updike

    by Adam Begley ...
    "A brilliant biography. . . . The joys are . . . discovering the autobiographical content of the . . . details that populate Updike's vast fictional universe." —Orhan Pamuk, The New York Times Book ReviewAdam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, Pulitzer prize–winning novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban ... Read more

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  • Cormac McCarthy

    All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road

    Edited by Sara Spurgeon ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • With Love and Squalor

    13 Writers Responds to the Work of J.D. Salinger

    by Kip Kotzen, Thomas Beller ...
    Reading The Catcher in the Rye has become a rite of passage for young Americans, landing the book on bestseller lists (and banned book lists) each year, even though it was published a half century ago. What is it about J. D. Salinger and his body of work that has left such a lasting mark on American fiction? And who better to answer that question than the current generation of writers?Here are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of the Heart

    by Henry Miller ...
    An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdomIn this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Necessary Angel

    Essays on Reality and the Imagination

    by Wallace Stevens ...
    In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

    by Joel Dinerstein ...
    An "entertaining" study of the enduring concept of coolness, and the mix of cultures and historical events that shaped it ( The New York Times).Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a ... Read more

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  • Trinity of Passion

    The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Edited by Richard H. Millington ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels ... Read more

    $31.99 USD