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  • The New Diaspora

    The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction

    Edited by Victoria Aarons, Mark Shechner, Avinoam Patt ...
    An innovative anthology of pieces that have either won or been considered for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award on the occasion of the award's fiftieth anniversary.The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford's Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roth after Eighty

    Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination

    by David Brauner, Alex Calder, Amy Gelbart, Aurélie Guillain, Patrick Hayes, Catherine Morley, Ira Nadel, Adam Zachary Newton, Mark Shechner, Debra Shostak, Claudia Franziska Brühwiler ...
    Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy.This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Roth and Celebrity

    by Derek Royal, James Bloom, Ira Nadel, Miriam Jaffe Foger, Debra Shostak, Matthew Shipe, Maggie McKinley, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Nigel Rodenhurst, Mark Shechner ...
    Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West

    by S. T. Joshi ...
    The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West," in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader’s Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account ... Read more

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  • Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

    by Gesa Mackenthun ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Poet Edgar Allan Poe

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    by Jerome McGann ...
    The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson’s sneering quip about “The Jingle Man” testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent annoyance in academic and literary circles; that they attracted the admiration of innovative poetic masters in Europe and especially France—notably Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Valéry—has been further ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Twilight of the Middle Class

    Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

    by Andrew Hoberek ...
    In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the ... 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 Covert Sphere

    Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State

    by Timothy Melley ...
    In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four—a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime ... Read more

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  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edited by Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Rhizosphere

    Gilles Deleuze and the 'Minor' American Writing of William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, and William Falkner

    by Mary Zamberlin ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This book explores the significant intellectual impact the philosopher Jean Wahl had on the directions Gilles Deleuze took as a philosopher and writer of a philosophy of experimentation. The study of this influence also brings to light the significance of Deleuze's emphasis on la pragmatique, inspired by Wahl's writings and teachings and his fascination with American pluralism and pragmatism, ... Read more

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