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"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of the 1930s, Nelson Algren, Richard Wrig...

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If racially offensive epithets are banned from network airtime and the pages USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn't fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain's comic and beloved masterp...

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In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan ...

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"Highly articulate, sophisticated, and tightly imbricated essays. This volume will make exceptionally fine reading for those well-acquainted with the rigorous techniques of theory."--'English Language Notes.

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Macropolitics defines a rapidly emerging focus for cultural enquiry. In contrast to Foucault's micropolitics, it emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in 19th-century writin...

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Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics-a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state-has become a focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the e...

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While Ralph Ellison is perhaps best known for his novel "Invisible Man", he was also a significant twentieth-century intellectual, having authored numerous essays and papers that shaped thought on subjects from jazz to liberalism. "...

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For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his fellow Palestinians, Said's importance extends fa...

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This book records a major critics three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of peoples livesthat is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads ...

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This book records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives-that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threa...

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In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.

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