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  • Bette Davis Black and White

    par Julia A. Stern ...
    Bette Davis's career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern explores this largely untold facet of Davis's brilliant career.Bette Davis Black and White analyzes four of Davis's best-known pictures— ... En savoir plus

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  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    par Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... En savoir plus

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  • The Beautiful & Damned

    Decadence, Wealth, and Desire in the Jazz Age

    par F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned" offers a poignant exploration of the disillusionment and moral decay of American society during the Jazz Age. Through the tumultuous lives of its protagonists, Anthony and Gloria Patch, the novel unfolds in a richly evocative style that blends lyrical prose with sharp social commentary. Fitzgerald masterfully captures the glimmering allure and ... En savoir plus

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  • Wartime

    Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

    par Paul Fussell ...
    Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Writers On The Edge

    22 Writers Speak About Addiction and Dependency

    par Diana M. Raab, James Brown ...
    Collections series Reflections of America
    Writers On The Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by majorcontemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugsand alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana Raab and James Brown have assembled anarray of talented and courageous writers who share their stories with heartbreaking honesty asthey share their obsessions as well as the ... En savoir plus

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  • Drinks Before Dinner

    A Play

    par E.L. Doctorow ...
    The long-unavailable work by one of America's most eminent writers.Drinks Before Dinner, called “witty and provocative” by the New York Times, is E.L. Doctorow’s only play. A tour-de-force of language and ideas concerning the individual’s role in and response to contemporary America, Drinks Before Dinner revolves around a dinner party for the economically privileged.As Doctorow writes in his ... En savoir plus

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  • The Female Complaint

    The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

    par Lauren Berlant ...
    The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

    Modifié par Robert Faggen ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and Wordsworth, he transformed pastoral and georgic poetry both in subject matter and form. Mastering the rhythms of ordinary speech, Frost made country ... En savoir plus

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  • God's Arbiters

    Americans and the Philippines, 1898 - 1902

    par Susan K. Harris ...
    Collections series Imagining the Americas
    When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United States was divinely appointed to bring democracy--and with ... En savoir plus

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  • Culture, Capital and Representation

    Modifié par R. Balfour ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Understanding Truman Capote

    par Thomas Fahy ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction

    Modifié par Paula Geyh ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American ... En savoir plus

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