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  • Beyond Boundaries

    Rereading John Steinbeck

    by Lorelei Cederstrom, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, James C. Kelley, Warren G. French, Paul Hadella, Charlotte Hadella, Hiroshi Kaname, Michael J. Meyer, Kiyoshi Nakayama, John Ditsky, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Kyoko Ariki, Brian Railsback, Robert DeMott, Christine Rucklin, P. Balaswamy, John Seelye, Rodney P. Rice, Christina Sheehan Gold, Hiromasa Takamura, Malithat Promathatavedi, Carol L. Hansen, Stephen K. George ...
    The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influenceAs a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, illuminated the lives of ordinary people, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: The Great ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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

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    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
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  • 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

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  • On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    "Fearless, illuminating" criticism from a New York Times–bestselling author and legendary teacher, "proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial" ( Los Angeles Times).Novelist John Gardner's thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: "True art is by its nature moral." It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in life and in art. Since the book's first publication, ... Read more

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  • On Poets and Others

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    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

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  • Moby Dick In One Sitting

    A Condensed Classic

    by Stu Guideman ...
    Series series In One Sitting
    The purpose of this text is to capture, as far as is possible, the beauty and purpose of the writing in an condensed and readable form. Melville, by his own admission, was torn between what he wanted to write and what he imagined others would wish to read. Much of the plot redundancy, contextual flavor, and extensive history of the whaling industry has been removed. What is left is Melville’s rich ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Materialism

    Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Lori Merish ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars—Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a ... Read more

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  • Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers

    Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

    by Arthur Redding ...
    The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism.In Turncoats, Traitors, and ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Conversations with James Salter

    Edited by Jennifer Levasseur, Kevin Rabalais ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a writer's writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his lyrical prose, his insightful and daring explorations of sex, and his examinations of the inner lives of women and men.Conversations with James Salter collects interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with ... Read more

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  • The Little Magazine in Contemporary America

    Edited by Ian Morris, Joanne Diaz ...
    Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging writers become established authors. Although changing technology and the increasingly harsh financial realities of publishing over the past three ... Read more

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  • Incomparable Empires

    Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

    by Gayle Rogers ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the world republic of letters. But what if this narrative relies on several faulty assumptions, and what ... Read more

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