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  • Understanding Gary Shteyngart

    de Geoff Hamilton ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A survey of the Russian-born American author's work and themes questioning identity, politics, and multiculturalismUnderstanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart's novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A New Continent of Liberty

    Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich

    de Geoff Hamilton ...
    Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Ša, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent in Native American literature. The history of this rich tradition of storytellers begins with desperate early efforts pitted ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature

    Edición de Geoff Hamilton, Brian Jones ...
    This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on material from early explorers and colonists such as Columbus, Bartolome de Las Casas and Thomas Harriot; Native American ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature

    de Geoff Hamilton ...
    In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of the nation’s literary history. Whereas America’s ideological roots are typically examined in relation to Enlightenment Europe, this book traces the American literary representation of autonomy back to its pastoral, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • Playing in the Dark

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

    Origins

    de Justine Tally ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Literature and Reality

    de Howard Fast ...
    Howard Fast's controversial essay on the proper role of literature, offering insight into his life and worksIn this 1950 essay, Howard Fast argues that all writers have a duty to reflect the truth of the world in their works, particularly regarding social justice. Fast's treatise on literary criticism allows for a fuller understanding of his early novels, in which his political beliefs remain ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    de Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

    de Rowan Ricardo Phillips ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
    In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Going to the Territory

    de Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    "The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."-- Washington Post Book WorldThe seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Promised Land

    Thirteen Books That Changed America

    de Jay Parini ...
    In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, and On the Road—Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    de Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD