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  • Cuba's Forgotten Decade

    How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution

    by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield, Mervyn J. Bain, Guy Baron, H. Michael Erisman, Robert Huish, Anne Luke, Hope Bastian, Raquel Ribeiro0, Isaac Saney1, Rosi Smith2, Antoni Kapcia3, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk4, Par Kumaraswami5, Dr Isabel Story6 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba

    Narrative, Identity, and Well-being

    by Par Kumaraswami ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literature that underlines how cultural policy has made literature a hybrid activity between elite and mass culture, with inherent social, rather than aesthetic or political, value. Whilst many traditional ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4

    Edited by Amanda Holmes, Par Kumaraswami ...
    Series series Latin American Literature in Transition
    Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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    by Mark G. Twain ...
    The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive, alcoholic ... Read more

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  • Playing in the Dark

    by Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... Read more

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  • Exile's Return

    A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal ... Read more

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  • Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

    by Stoneback ...
    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The first volume in an important series of guides to the works of Ernest Hemingway"The Reading Hemingway series of guides to Ernest Hemingway's major works of fiction, short stories, and novels are written for students, fellow teachers, and other readers who share an interest in the works of one of America's, and indeed the world's, outstanding writers…. The books in this series will gloss or ... Read more

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  • Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead

    by Tim Dayton ...
    The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men—likely somewhere between 700 and 800—died of acute silicosis ... Read more

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  • There's a Mystery There

    The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak

    by Jonathan Cott ...
    An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period.Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Transition

    Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

    by Jonathan Levin ...
    Series series New Americanists
    The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement—is infused with power. He then offers a ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Collected Essays on H.P. Lovecraft and Others

    by George T. Wetzel ...
    This volume collects 8 pioneering essays (and a humorous epistolary exchange) by the late H.P. Lovecraft scholar, George T. Wetzel. This is the largest single volume of Wetzel's nonfiction ever published. Included are:"Biographic Notes on Lovecraft" (from HPL, 1971)"The Mechanistic Supernatural of Lovecraft" (from Fresco, 1958)"The Cthulhu Mythos: A Study" (from HPL: Memoirs, Critiques and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • American Guides

    The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture

    by Wendy Griswold ...
    In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: ... Read more

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