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  • A Companion to American Poetry

    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRYA Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts ... Read more

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  • Writing in Real Time

    Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital

    by Paul Jaussen ...
    Series Book 163 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in Real Time combines systems theory, literary history, and recent debates in poetics to interpret a broad range of American long poems as emergent systems, capable of adaptation and transformation in ... Read more

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    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings ... Read more

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    Series series The Basics
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    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

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  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

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  • Everybody's Autonomy

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    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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