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  • Separate Spheres No More

    Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

    by Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Katharine Rodier, Karen S. Nulton, Karen E. Waldron, Dawn Keetley, Lisette Nadine Gibson, Debra Bernardi, Jennifer Costello Brezina, Mary Louise Kete, Marianne Noble, Denise D. Knight0, Monika Elbert2, Ms. Darby Lewes3, Ms. Frederick Newberry4 ...
    Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literatureAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Toward a Literary Ecology

    Places and Spaces in American Literature

    Edited by Karen E. Waldron, Rob Friedman ...
    Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly to disciplines such as the biological sciences, human geography, or philosophy. Even so, the field ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • The One-Straw Revolution

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  • Dark Hollow

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  • David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

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    by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a "three-stage rocket to the future," a work "equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life," while Time Magazine included Infinite ... Read more

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  • On Late Style

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    by Edward W. Said ...
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  • Due Considerations

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."—The Los Angeles TimesHere Updike considers ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on the Ideas of Gregory Bateson, Ecological Intelligence, and Educational Reforms

    by C. A. Bowers ...
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  • The Legacy of David Foster Wallace

    Edited by Samuel Cohen, Lee Konstantinou ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many ... Read more

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  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

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  • Grace Paley

    Illuminating Dark Lives

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    Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories.Drawing on interviews with the author, as well as the stories themselves, Taylor ... Read more

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