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  • Greening The Lyre

    Environmental Poetics And Ethics

    by David W. Gilcrest ...
    Series series Environmental Arts and Humanities Series
    This work covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? He addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Devil’s Dictionary

    by Ambrose Bierce ...
    The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - A satirical dictionary that offers cynical definitions of common words, reflecting Bierce's dark wit. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

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  • Interpreting Dan Brown's Inferno

    Reading Between the Lines

    by Deborah Parker, Mark Parker ...
    In this sneak peek into Inferno, Dan Brown's brand new novel, Interpreting Dan Brown's Inferno will provide readers with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world—and the ways in which Brown has repurposed Dante's famous work in his newest Robert Langdon novel. This teaser explores the Prologue and first chapter of Inferno and details to the reader what important facts—and mistakes—they ... Read more

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  • The Long Embrace

    Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved

    by Judith Freeman ...
    Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    by Ann Charters, Samuel Charters ...
    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • First We Read, Then We Write

    Emerson on the Creative Process

    by Robert D. Richardson ...
    Series series Muse Books
    Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage’s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Inexpressible Privacy

    The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature

    by Milette Shamir ...
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleFew concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than that of privacy. What these discussions have lacked, however, is a historically informed sense of privacy's genealogy in U.S. culture. Now, Milette Shamir traces this peculiarly American obsession back to the middle decades of the ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Understanding Truman Capote

    by Thomas Fahy ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    "Does an admirable job of examining Capote as a writer whose work reflects America of the late 1940s and 1950s more deeply than previously thought." —Ralph F. Voss, author of Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"Truman Capote—and his most famous works, In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's—continue to have a powerful hold over the American popular imagination, along with his glamorous ... Read more

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  • The Vonnegut Effect

    by Jerome Klinkowitz ...
    A defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut's fictionKurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors.In this innovative study of the author's ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sixteen Modern American Authors

    A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1972

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer ...
    Praise for the earlier edition:“Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form—Sixteenth Modern American Authors—it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Body of Property

    Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

    by Chad Luck ...
    What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions.Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961-2011

    Stave Sightings

    by A. J. Carruthers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a critical experiment that tracks the literary and poetic uses of musical notation and notational methods in North American long poems from the middle of last century to the contemporary moment. Poets have readily referred to their poems as “scores.” Yet, in this study*,* Carruthers argues that the integration of musical scores in expansive works of this period does more work than ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD