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  • Scientific Americans

    The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    de John Bruni ...
    Series series Intersections in Literature and Science
    Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, this book shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the emerging global systems that shape our own lives. Tracing these systems' take-off point in the early twentieth century through the lens of popular science journalism, John Bruni makes ... Leer más

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  • The Twenty-First-Century Western

    New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

    Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of ... Leer más

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  • Frank Baum: all 17 Oz books

    de Baum, Frank ...
    This book-collection file includes: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900; The Marvelous Land of Oz, 1904; the Woggle-Bug Book, 1905; Ozma of Oz, 1907; Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, 1908; The Road to oz, 1909; the Emerald City of Oz, 1913; the Patchwork Girl of Oz, 1913; Little Wizard Stories of Oz, 1913; Tik-Tok of Oz, 1914; The Scarecrow of Oz, 1915; Rinitink in Oz, 1916; The Lost Princess of Oz, ... Leer más

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  • On Writers & Writing

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • John Gardner on Writing

    On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction

    de John Gardner ...
    Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from "one of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had" (Frederick Busch).In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops, the developmental stages of literary growth, and the inevitable experience of writer's block. Drawn from his ... Leer más

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  • Cormac McCarthy

    All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road

    Edición de Sara Spurgeon ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field ... Leer más

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  • The Fun of It

    Stories from The Talk of the Town

    William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way.The Fun of It is the first anthology of ... Leer más

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  • Neobaroque in the Americas

    Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

    de Monika Kaup ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the ... Leer más

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  • Ledgers of History

    William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary

    de Sally Wolff ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a fifty-year tradition of leading students on expeditions to "Faulkner country" in and around Oxford, Mississippi. Not long ago, she decided to invite alumni on one of these field trips. One response to the invitation surprised her: "I can't go on the trip. But I knew William Faulkner." They were the words of Dr. Edgar Wiggin Francisco III, and ... Leer más

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  • Manly Health and Training

    To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body

    de Walt Whitman ...
    A truly significant discovery, Walt Whitman’s Manly Health and Training is an entertaining health manifesto that sheds new light on one of America’s major nineteenth-century authors.In the fall of 1858, a thirteen-part essay series appeared in the New York Atlas, under the title Manly Health and Training. This nearly 47,000-word journalistic effort, written by Walt Whitman under his pen name “Mose ... Leer más

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  • The Best Minds of My Generation

    A Literary History of the Beats

    In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem “Howl,” and Jack Kerouac’s seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present the ... Leer más

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  • Voices of Italian America

    A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

    Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after World War II. The volume resurrects the neglected and even forgotten territory of a ... Leer más

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