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  • Epistolary Practices

    Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications

    by William Merrill Decker ...
    Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography andhistory, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensionshave only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to thepostmodern period.After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems: The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death...

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history. Quotes from the book: "Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute." "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Susan Sontag Reader

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ, there is an essential unity in all her work. The truth of this is perhaps more evident in A Susan Sontag ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Mutants

    Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

    by Ramzi Fawaz ...
    Series Book 1 - Postmillennial Pop
    **2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book PrizeFinalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies**How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions.In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Captive's Position

    Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

    by Teresa A. Toulouse ...
    Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative—one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Anatomy of Bloom

    Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety

    by Dr. Alistair Heys ...
    Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the career of America's leading intellectual. The Anatomy of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom's life as a literary critic, exploring all of his books in chronological order, to reveal that his work, and especially his classic The Anxiety of Influence, is best understood as an expression of reprobate American Protestantism and yet haunted by a Jewish ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

    Edited by Kevin R. McNamara ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

    Edited by John N. Duvall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Paul Auster

    by Mark Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified optimism, the book shows ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

    Edited by Jackson J. Benson ...
    With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short stories. Since that time the availability of Hemingway’s papers, coupled with new critical and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD