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  • Hip Figures

    A Literary History of the Democratic Party

    de Michael Szalay ...
    Series series Post*45
    Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. ... Leer más

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Necessary Angel

    Essays on Reality and the Imagination

    de Wallace Stevens ...
    In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edición de Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day?

    One Geezer's Handbook for (Temporary) Survival

    de Larry McCoy ...
    Recent retirees have a lot of adjustments to make, and we’re not talking only pant size here. This entertaining book on aging offers hilarious suggestions for handling some of life’s more daunting challenges--from prostate cancer to keeping fit, from overly complicated TV remotes to night driving. (McCoy wonders if other drivers in their 70s always see trees in the middle of the road after dark.) ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Bloom

    Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $39.69 USD

  • The Best Minds of My Generation

    A Literary History of the Beats

    de Allen Ginsberg ...
    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

    $14.39 USD

  • Welcome to the Suck

    Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq

    de Stacey Peebles ...
    Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier's experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War.Stories about war always encompass ideas about ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Reading Faulkner

    Absalom, Absalom!

    de Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk ...
    Series series Reading Faulkner Series
    Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." On another ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Oracle and the Curse

    A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

    de Caleb Smith ...
    Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War.In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the ... Leer más

    $38.69 USD

  • Male Call

    Becoming Jack London

    de Jonathan Auerbach ...
    Series series New Americanists
    When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Audrey Wood and the Playwrights

    de M. Barranger ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction

    de Stacey Olster ...
    The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD