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“kevin railey”

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  • Natural Aristocracy

    History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner

    by Kevin Railey ...
    Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces that surrounded his life, Railey explores the interrelationships between American history and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Arms

    The Culture and Credo of the Gun

    by Andrew Somerset ...
    After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture more radical, less tolerant, and more immovable in its beliefs, as if [each] gun had come with a free, bonus ideological Family Pack [of political tenets], a ready ... Read more

    $12.99 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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  • Understanding Don DeLillo

    by Henry Veggian ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A deft survey of the literary achievements of an author cited by Harold Bloom as one of the most influential writers of our timeHenry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half-century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, ... Read more

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  • Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

    by Will Norman ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism — this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Hemingway's Laboratory

    The Paris in our time

    by Dr. Milton A. Cohen ...
    Illuminates the development of Hemingway’s themes and techniques and his future course as a stylist and writer.In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway’s story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Companion to Mark Twain

    Edited by Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent yearsBrings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • The Hessian: The Classic Novel with a New Foreword

    by Howard Fast ...
    Originally published in 1972, The Hessian tells the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. At the heart of the story is a Quaker family, who hide the boy after his landing party has been killed in an ambush. Because the captain of the Hessians had ordered the hanging of a local whom he thought might be a spy, the town militia lay in ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

    A Critical Reassessment

    Edited by Steven Belletto, Daniel Grausam ...
    Series series New American Canon
    The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

    by Peter Swirski ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offense

    by Mark Twain ...
    This book is a type of "tooth and claw" criticism of James Fenimore Cooper's writings, focusing primarily on Deerslayer and Pathfinder from the Leatherstocking Tales. Twain begins by quoting a few critics who praise the works of Cooper, and then shortly claims that they have never read the articles themselves.Twain states that Cooper scores 114 offenses out of 115 in two thirds of a page, thus ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Archipelagic American Studies

    Edited by Brian Russell Roberts, Michelle Ann Stephens ...
    Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans. They trace these planet-spanning archipelagic connections in essays on topics ... Read more

    $28.79 USD