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  • The Zukofsky Era

    Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde

    by Ruth Jennison ...
    Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
    Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker wrote with a diversity of formal strategies but a singularity of purpose: the crafting of an anticapitalist poetics.Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Communism and Poetry

    Writing Against Capital

    Edited by Ruth Jennison, Julian Murphet ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital addresses the relationship between an upsurge in collective political practice around the world since 2000, and the crystallization of newly engaged forms of poetry. Considering an array of perspectives—poets, poet-critics, activists and theorists—these essays shed new light on the active interface between emancipatory political thought and poetic ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
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  • J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Sarah Graham ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is a twentieth-century classic. Despite being one of the most frequently banned books in America, generations of readers have identified with the narrator, Holden Caulfield, an angry young man who articulates the confusion, cynicism and vulnerability of adolescence with humour and sincerity.This guide to Salinger’s provocative novel offers:an ... Read more

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  • Understanding Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fictionNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. In ... Read more

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  • The Whole Harmonium

    The Life of Wallace Stevens

    by Paul Mariani ...
    An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century.Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred ... Read more

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  • Taps at Reveille

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Taps at Reveille by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a carefully prepared Good Old Pages Publishing digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a ... Read more

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  • Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    This selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation’s greatest and most divisive thinkers—featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry.“ . . . pulls together some of Hitchens’s greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit.” —New York Times Book ReviewIf someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction?One of his ... Read more

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  • David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form

    by Dr. David Hering ...
    In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the rapidly expanding field of Wallace scholarship, this book argues that the form of Wallace's fiction is ... Read more

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  • Hard to Be a Saint in the City

    The Spiritual Vision of the Beats

    by Robert Inchausti ...
    An exploration of Beat spirituality--seen through excerpts from the writings of the seminal writers of Beat Generation themselves.It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic figures like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure—were thinkers ... Read more

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    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

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  • A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

    by PERCY H. BOYNTON ...
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