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  • Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism

    Essays on Violence and Grace

    par Avis Hewitt ...
    In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O’Connor’s time, the threats came from different sources—World War II, the Cold War, and the Korean conflict—but they were just as real. She, too, lived though a “time of terror. ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Animals in the American Classics

    How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction

    par Susan F. Beegel, John Bird, Deborah Clarke, Robert Donahoo, William Engel, Barbara Heavilin, Stacey Peebles, Philip Edward Phillips, Anthony Reynolds, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Brian Yothers ...
    Collections series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.John Cullen Gruesser’s edited volume Animals in the American Classics: ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

    Modifié par Timothy Parrish ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • How Reading Changed My Life

    par Anna Quindlen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist).“Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Kingdom of Speech

    par Tom Wolfe ...
    The legendary reporter and author of The Right Stuff takes on Darwin, Chomsky, and the origin of language in "his boldest bit of dueling yet" ( The New York Times).Tom Wolfe, the great journalist-provocateur, aims his piercing wit at the presiding theories of what makes us human. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Writing Wild

    Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

    par Kathryn Aalto ...
    **"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." —**Cultivating PlaceIn Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    par Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Terrible Speed of Mercy

    A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

    par Jonathan Rogers ...
    "Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics."—Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'Connor's work has been described as "profane, blasphemous, and outrageous." Her stories are peopled by a sordid caravan of murderers and thieves, ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Book That Changed My Life

    Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

    Modifié par Diane Osen ...
    Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists offer new insights into the many ways in which the experience of reading ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $6.99 CAD Maintenant $5.99 CAD

  • Curious Pursuits

    Occasional Writing

    par Margaret Atwood ...
    By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceCurious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present.Atwood remembers moving to London as a starry-eyed teenager in 1964 and her first attempts at gardening; she discusses feminist utopias in fiction, and writes moving odes on beloved ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Beauty Will Save the World

    Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age

    par Gregory Wolfe ...
    Culture, Not PoliticsWe live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do that, Wolfe believes, ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    par Laurie Rozakis ...
    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD