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  • Wilderness City

    The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman

    by Ted Clontz ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the chronotope, or spacetime. ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • Friendly Fire

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    by Katherine Kinney ...
    Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, ... Read more

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  • On Poets and Others

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    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

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  • Ugly Feelings

    by Sianne Ngai ...
    Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing ... Read more

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  • Nation and Migration

    The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

    by Juliet Shields ...
    Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, ... Read more

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  • Racial Blasphemies

    Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature

    by Michael L. Cobb ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality as much as it signals the sheer difficulty ... Read more

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    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to the American Novel

    Edited by Alfred Bendixen ...
    Series Book 182 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction to this popular literary form currently availableFeatures 37 contributions from a wide range of ... Read more

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    by M. Barranger ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
    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. ... Read more

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    Edited by Paul, Gail Sinclair, Steven Trout ...
    Casts fresh light on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figuresErnest Hemingway’s early adulthood (1917–1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular success. In War + Ink, veteran and emerging Hemingway scholars, alongside experts in related fields, ... Read more

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    Crisis in American Art and Literature

    by Dr. Aimee Pozorski ...
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