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  • American Lit 101

    From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works

    de Brianne Keith ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series
    From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned!Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States itself. But too often, textbooks reduce this storied history to dry text that would put even a tenured ... Leer más

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  • Due Considerations

    Essays and Criticism

    de John Updike ...
    A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."—The Los Angeles TimesHere Updike considers ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

    Edición de Catherine Ross Nickerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    de Katherine Morrison ...
    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Finding a Form

    Essays

    de William H. Gass ...
    From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Fashion and Fiction

    Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature

    de Lauren S. Cardon ...
    Series series Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
    During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization—shedding ethnic origins and signs of "otherness" to embrace a constructed American identity—was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary, political, and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Natural State

    A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing

    Edición de Steven Gilbar ...
    This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Cold War Modernists

    Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

    de Greg Barnhisel ...
    European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling art exhibits, touring musical shows, radio programs, book translations, and conferences, they ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction

    The Anxieties of Post-Nationalism and Counter Terrorism

    de Scott McClintock ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • American Terror

    The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville

    de Paul Hurh ...
    If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville—who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorized, and championed it ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Epic

    From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

    de Sneharika Roy ...
    Series series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy.The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Modern Women, Modern Work

    Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 189-195

    de Francesca Sawaya ...
    Series series Rethinking the Americas
    Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves.Sawaya challenges our long-standing ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD