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  • Popular Music and American Literary Culture

    by Kirk Curnutt ...
    Series series American Literary Culture
    Explores how American Literature has represented the sound and spirit of popular musicFrom the birth of rhythm and blues to the rise of hip-hop, American writers have long grappled with how to capture in words the energy, rebellion, and cultural power of popular music. Popular Music and American Literary Culture traces this complex relationship, offering the most comprehensive exploration yet of ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

    The South Side of Paradise

    by Sara A. Kosiba, Samantha Bankston, Robert Beuka, John Brooks, Jennifer Horne, Jonathan Jones, Ashley Lawson, Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Niklas Salmose, Park Bucker0, J. Bret Maney1, Lauren Rule Maxwell2, Helen M. Turner3, Kirk Curnutt4, Bryant Mangum6 ...
    The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise explores resonances of "Southernness" in works by American culture’s leading literary couple. At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a romance of regionalism, as the charming tale of a Northern man wooing a Southern belle. Their writing exposes ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Updike and Politics

    New Considerations

    by Matthew Shipe, Scott Dill, Marshall Boswell, Michial Farmer, Ethan Fishman, Yoav Fromer, Louis Gordon, Jo Gill, Sylvie Mathé0, Takashi Nakatani1, Judith Newman2, Pradipta Sengupta3, Biljana Dojcinovic4, Aleksandra Vukotic5, Kirk Curnutt6, James Schiff7 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Presenting the first interdisciplinary consideration of his political thought, Updike and Politics: New Considerations establishes a new scholarly foundation for assessing one of the most recognized and significant American writers of the post-1945 period. This book brings together a diverse group of American and international scholars, including contributors from Japan, India, Israel, and Europe. ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The 100 Greatest Literary Characters

    by James Plath, Gail Sinclair, Kirk Curnutt ...
    From Captain Ahab to Yuri Zhivago, discover the most remarkable characters in fiction.Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne . . . these are just a handful of remarkable characters found in literature, but of course the list is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are the greatest? More than just a topic to debate with friends, the greatest characters ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century

    by Milton R. Stern, Mary McAleer Balkun, M. T. Inge, Christopher Ames, Stanley Brodwin, Kirk Curnutt, Anne M. Daniel, Morris Dickstein0, Edward Gillin1, Janet Giltrow2, D.G. Kehl3, Veronica Makowsky4, Toshifumi Miyawaki5, Michael Nowlin6, Tim Prchal7, Walter Raubicheck8, David Stouck9, Stephen L. Tanner0, Frederick Wegener1, Dr. Horst H. Kruse2 ...
    This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.“Edited by three eminent Fitzgerald scholars, this fine book comprises nineteen incisive and provocative essays (most written for this collection) by . . . well-known Fitzgerald critics. The content is as varied as the international origins of its authors.” —ChoiceAs the author ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • William Faulkner

    by Kirk Curnutt ...
    Series Book 85 - Critical Lives
    At various stages of his life, the celebrated American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) presented himself as a literary dandy, a shabby bohemian, a humble farmer, a courtly lover, and a genteel but aloof Southerner. In private and public, he was masterful at making people wonder who he really was. As Kirk Curnutt acknowledges, Faulkner was first and foremost a storyteller. Faulkner’s ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Flappers and Philosophers

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.' F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers, appeared in 1920 on the heels of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, and immediately established him as a master of popular fiction. Love stories such as 'The Offshore Pirate' and 'Head and Shoulders' capture the spectacle and fantasy of the Jazz Age, celebrating that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned"

    New Critical Essays

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Sarah Sue Goldsmith, James L. W. West III, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Walter Raubicheck, Gail D. Sinclair, Joseph K. Stitt, Richard Webb Jr. ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned*,* has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby*.*The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre that is widely misunderstood, the “bright young things” novel in which ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The New Hemingway Studies

    Edited by Suzanne del Gizzo, Kirk Curnutt ...
    Series series Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
    The subject of endless biographies, fictional depictions, and critical debate, Ernest Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. He remains both a definitive stylist of twentieth-century literature and a case study in what happens to an artist consumed by the spectacle of celebrity. The New Hemingway Studies examines how two decades of new-millennium ... Read more

    $121.39 USD

  • American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980

    Edited by Kirk Curnutt ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

  • Key West Hemingway

    A Reassessment

    Edited by Kirk Curnutt, Gail D. Sinclair ...
    "No other work has focused so sharply and revealed so clearly the vitality of Hemingway's time in Key West. Key West Hemingway shows that even as his Papa persona grew during the 1930s, Hemingway continued to generate a significant body of nuanced and complex (if also misunderstood) experimental prose. With keen scrutiny and brilliance, these fresh and readable essays rediscover and give us ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • The New York Times Book Review

    125 Years of Literary History

    by The New York Times ...
    A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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