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“dr robert c bell”

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  • America's Disaster Culture

    The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture

    by Dr. Robert C. Bell, Dr. Robert M. Ficociello ...
    Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of “natural” disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture.In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • South Toward Home

    Travels in Southern Literature

    by Margaret Eby ...
    "Fascinating…Eby lyrically uncovers a bit of the magic that makes a Southern writer Southern." —Josh Steele, Entertainment WeeklyWhat is it about the South that has inspired so much of America’s greatest literature? And why do we think of the authors it influenced not just as writers, but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby goes in search of answers to these questions, visiting ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

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  • The H.D. Book

    by Robert Duncan ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan
    This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Much Ado About Nonexistence

    Fiction and Reference

    by Avrum Stroll ...
    The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities. In Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence, A. P. Martinich and Avrum Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference and its relation to truth. Included in the discussion ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work

    The Making of "The Great Gatsby"

    by Dr. Horst H. Kruse ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby occupies a preeminent place in American letters. Scholars have argued that Jay Gatsby is, in fact, the embodiment of American cultural and social aspiration. Though The Great Gatsby has been studied in detail since its publication, both readers and scholars have continued to speculate about Fitzgerald’s sources of inspiration.The essays in F. Scott Fitzgerald ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

    by Paul Clements ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski’s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • American Poetry in Performance

    From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop

    by Tyler Hoffman ...
    "Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains provocative, interesting, and accessible."---Jay Parini, Middlebury CollegeAmerican Poetry in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Hessian: The Classic Novel with a New Foreword

    by Howard Fast ...
    Originally published in 1972, The Hessian tells the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. At the heart of the story is a Quaker family, who hide the boy after his landing party has been killed in an ambush. Because the captain of the Hessians had ordered the hanging of a local whom he thought might be a spy, the town militia lay in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Pre-Cinema

    Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination

    by Alberto Gabriele ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of the Romantic age, in the prose of Anne Radcliffe, the experiments of Friedrich Schlegel, and in ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

    Edited by Ezra Tawil ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900

    by E. VanDette ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Where is American Literature?

    by Caroline F. Levander ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age.A refreshing and accessible investigation into the various locations - linguistic, geographical, virtual, ideological - where American writing is produced and consumedTakes a ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD