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  • Real Folks

    Race and Genre in the Great Depression

    by Sonnet Retman ...
    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet ... Read more

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This volume collects the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.THE TALESMetzengerstein, The Duc de L’Omelette, A Tale of Jerusalem, Loss of Breath, Bon-Bon, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Assignation, Berenice, Morella, Lionizing, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, King Pest, Shadow—A Parable, etc.THE POEMSPoetry, O, Tempora! O, Mores!, Tamerlane, Song, Dreams, Spirits of the Dead, Evening ... Read more

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  • On Writers & Writing

    by John Gardner ...
    The classic work on the art of fiction by the "refreshingly unpredictable" novelist and literary critic ( Publishers Weekly)In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and ... Read more

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  • Huckleberry Finn

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Radici
    Romanzo che narra le avventura di Huck e di Jim lungo le rive del Mississipi. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano. ... Read more

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  • Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo

    by Dr. James Gourley ...
    Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of September 2001 must have had a major effect on two New York residents, and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and DeLillo. By examining implicit and explicit allusion to these events in their work, it becomes apparent that both consider 9/11 a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain

    Edited by Forrest G. Robinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a ... Read more

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  • Writing an Icon

    Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin

    by Anita Jarczok ...
    Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure.In Writing an Icon, ... Read more

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  • A Political Companion to John Steinbeck

    Edited by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Simon Stow ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902–1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays still generate controversy: his 1937 book Of Mice and Men was banned in some Mississippi schools in ... Read more

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  • Global Perspectives on Tarzan

    From King of the Jungle to International Icon

    Edited by Annette Wannamaker, Michelle Abate ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences? How is it that the same narrative serves as the basis for both children’s cartoons and lavish musical productions or as a vehicle for both nationalistic discourse ... Read more

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  • Rereading William Styron

    by Gavin Cologne-Brookes ...
    The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer's works, world, and character. Bringing an innovative approach to literary criticism, Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal anecdote, scholarly research, travel writing, and primary material to provide fresh perspectives on Styron's achievements.For Cologne ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Reading America

    Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature

    by Kristin L. Matthews ...
    Series series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
    During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, “A good citizen is a good reader.” As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good citizen?In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Six Poets from the Mountain South

    by John Lang ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne Miller: "Appalachian literature is -- and has always been -- as decidedly worldly, secular, and profane in its outlook as the [region's] traditional religion appears to be spiritual and otherworldly." Although this statement may be accurate for ... Read more

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