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  • Whitman Possessed

    Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority

    by Mark Maslan ...
    Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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  • The Art of Fiction

    A Guide for Writers and Readers

    by Ayn Rand ...
    In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, i... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    by Elizabeth Kantor ...
    What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . .- Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things)- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin- Jane Austen: Most men ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Rewiring the Real

    In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    Series Book 12 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Off the Books

    On Literature and Culture

    by J. Peder Zane ...
    An exploration of American culture and politics through the literary lens of a book review editorHead Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hospitality in American Literature and Culture

    Spaces, Bodies, Borders

    by Jesús Benito Sanchez, Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting roles of hosts and guests in the United States, the book concentrates on ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Literary Quest for an American National Character

    by Finn Pollard ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    "What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Ethnic American Literature

    An Encyclopedia for Students

    Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson ...
    Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Spirals

    The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art

    by Nico Israel ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists—including W. B. Yeats and Vladimir Tatlin, James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett and Robert Smithson—he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

    by PERCY H. BOYNTON ...
    The general purpose in the preparation of this book has been to eliminate negligible detail and to subordinate or omit authors of minor importance in order to stress the men and the movements that are most significant in American intellectual history. The book has therefore been written with a view to showing the drift of American thought as illustrated by major writers or groups and as revealed ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

    Edited by Robert E. Terrill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned ... Read more

    $26.29 USD