Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael thurston”
Skip side bar filters

  • Cape Cod, Revisited

    by Michael Thurston, Russ Rymer ...
    Series Book 18 - Working Titles
    Knowing that the Cape is more than tourist-riddled beaches and overpriced ice cream, Michael Thurston takes us on a late-summer retread of one of Thoreau's most famous walks. Blending travel writing and literary criticism, Thurston takes us along two centuries of the shore, reconsidering the dreadful shipwreck of the St. John, and considering the pliability of a hand-painted postcard. From artists ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

    by Michael Thurston ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    One hundred years after the publication of his first major work, Ernest Hemingway remains an important author. His work addressed the search for meaning in the wake of a 'Great War' and amid the challenges of rapidly changing social conventions, and his prose style has influenced generations of journalists and writers. Hemingway was wounded on the battlefield and caught up throughout his life in ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Making Something Happen

    American Political Poetry between the World Wars

    by Michael Thurston ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    “Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s — the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Modernism, Inc.

    Body, Memory, Capital

    Edited by Jani Scandura, Michael Thurston ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.Organized around the idea of "incorporation"--embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism--Modernism, Inc. covers a wide range of topics: ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • On the Quay at Smyrna

    by Margot Demopoulos, Michael Thurston ...
    Series Book 13 - Working Titles
    ON THE QUAY AT SMYRNA narrates in awful detail the violence and suffering wrought by the Turks during the Greco-Turkish War, seen primarily through the eyes of a teenage girl. It conveys the vibrant sights and smells, the sounds and tastes, the daily routines—with all their tedium and richness—that characterized the lives of its inhabitants from the days before the city's sacking. Margot ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

    by Michael Thurston, Nigel Alderman ...
    Series Book 16 - Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
    Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

    Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Bryan Waterman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • On Writing with Photography

    Edited by Karen Beckman, Liliane Weissberg ...
    From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there has been an explosion of modern documentary narratives and fiction combining text and photography in complex and fascinating ways. However, these contemporary experiments are part of a tradition that stretches back to the early years of photography. Writers have been integrating photographs into their work for as long as photographs have existed, producing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    by Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    by Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Read more

    $16.19 USD