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  • Benjamin Markovits

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Michael Kalisch ...
    Series series Contemporary Writers
    Benjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work, ranging from a trilogy of historical fictions on the life of Lord Byron (Imposture, 2007; A Quiet Adjustment, 2008; Childish Loves,2011) to an award-winning portrayal of a gentrification project in Obama-era Detroit (You Don’t Have to Live Like This,2015) to intimate studies of contemporary family ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors – including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, ... Read more

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    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
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    Edited by Len Platt, Sara Upstone ...
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    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Read more

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    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
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