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Noir Fiction and Film

Diversions and Misdirections

by Lee Clark Mitchell ...

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and ... Read more

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The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and
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More Time

Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style

by Lee Clark Mitchell ...

More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has appeared near the conclusion of a career devoted all but exclusively to short stories, with each defining a 'late style' honed ... Read more

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More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has appeared near the conclusion of a career devoted all but exclusively to short stories, with each defining a 'late style' honed
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Riders of the Purple Sage

by Zane Grey ; Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912 immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into ... Read more

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`With searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple barren waste of sage. Here was the unknown and the perilous.'The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912 immediately selling over a million copies. In the remote border country of South Utah a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into
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Late Westerns

The Persistence of a Genre

by Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Series series Postwestern Horizons
For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the ... Read more

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For more than a century the cinematic western has been America’s most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle—with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre—maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach “post” to the
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Mark My Words

Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such ... Read more

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Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such
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Mere Reading

The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels

by Professor Lee Clark Mitchell ...

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale ... Read more

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Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale
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The American

by Henry James, Leon Edel ...

Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana ... Read more

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Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana
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The Rainbow Trail (Rediscovered Books)

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Ten years after events of 'Riders of the Purple Sage', the wall to Surprise Valley has broken and Jane Withersteen is forced to make a big decision. ... Read more

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Ten years after events of 'Riders of the Purple Sage', the wall to Surprise Valley has broken and Jane Withersteen is forced to make a big decision.
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The Turn of the Screw

A Chilling Gothic Classic of Madness and Mystery

by Henry James ...

️️ Is she protecting the children—or losing her mind? Unravel one of literature's most enigmatic tales in The Turn of the Screw, the enduring gothic novella by Henry James that continues to intrigue and terrify over a century later. When a young governess takes a position at a remote English estate, she begins to suspect the children in her care are being haunted by sinister forces. But are these ... Read more

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️️ Is she protecting the children—or losing her mind? Unravel one of literature's most enigmatic tales in The Turn of the Screw, the enduring gothic novella by Henry James that continues to intrigue and terrify over a century later. When a young governess takes a position at a remote English estate, she begins to suspect the children in her care are being haunted by sinister forces. But are these
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Daisy Miller

by Henry James ...

A Timeless Classic of Societal Customs, Cultural Disputes, and The Cost of Non-ConformityHenry James’ novella Daisy Miller, features one of his greatest heroines. At first glance it seems to be a simple story of a lovely young, independent American girl traveling through Europe. But her flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe as she disrupts the rigid social rules ... Read more

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A Timeless Classic of Societal Customs, Cultural Disputes, and The Cost of Non-ConformityHenry James’ novella Daisy Miller, features one of his greatest heroines. At first glance it seems to be a simple story of a lovely young, independent American girl traveling through Europe. But her flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe as she disrupts the rigid social rules
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Glasses

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This version of Glasses includes a biography of the author Henry James at the end of the book• This includes life before and after the release of the bookFlora Louise Saunt is an orphaned young lady, but is so beautiful that she turns heads wherever she goes and counts on her beauty to attain security as the wife of young Lord Iffield, ... Read more

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This version of Glasses includes a biography of the author Henry James at the end of the book• This includes life before and after the release of the bookFlora Louise Saunt is an orphaned young lady, but is so beautiful that she turns heads wherever she goes and counts on her beauty to attain security as the wife of young Lord Iffield,
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The Mysterious Rider

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Unravel the tragic mystery of Hell-Bent Wade, a weary drifter with a hidden connection to a ranching family in Colorado. He becomes the silent guardian of a young woman, protecting her from a cruel father and a loveless marriage while concealing his true identity. The story is driven by themes of sacrifice and paternal love, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Rockies. It is a tear-jerking ... Read more

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Unravel the tragic mystery of Hell-Bent Wade, a weary drifter with a hidden connection to a ranching family in Colorado. He becomes the silent guardian of a young woman, protecting her from a cruel father and a loveless marriage while concealing his true identity. The story is driven by themes of sacrifice and paternal love, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Rockies. It is a tear-jerking
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