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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Norman Mailer's Later Fictions

av J Whalen-Bridge, John Whalen-Bridge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010-06-21

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Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest (2007) - to examine, for the first time in a full ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction

av C Kocela, Christopher Kocela

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010-09-10

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This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

av M Hurst, Mary Jane Hurst

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-02-25

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Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike,...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction

av A Graham-Bertolini, Alison Graham-Bertolini

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-09-21

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Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature

av E Mercer, Erin Mercer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-04-28

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This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines¿literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It¿examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was s...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Writing Celebrity

av T Galow, Timothy W Galow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-05-27

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Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary" writing in the decades before World War II.¿ Th...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction

av M Gauthier, Marni Gauthier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-10-03

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This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.¿Gauthier focuses on the works of¿Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Bret Easton Ellis

av G Colby, Georgina Colby

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-08-09

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This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut

av D Simmons, David Simmons

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-07

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From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) up to the recent success of A Man Without A Country (2005), Vonnegut's writing has remained commercially popular, of...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination

av T Fahy, Thomas Fahy

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-12-07

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This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why? And how does this response reflect larger social...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies

av M Boswell, S Burn, Stephen J Burn, Marshall Boswell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-03-20

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Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. Thi...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror

av T Hawkins, Ty Hawkins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-02-10

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Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Queer Commodities

av G Davidson, Guy Davidson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-02-10

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Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they al...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Edith Wharton and Genre

av Laura Rattray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020-08-12

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So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsideredin this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travelwriter, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative

av Jonathan D'Amore, Jonathan D'Amore

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-06-08

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This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry

av N Marsh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007-10-17

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This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S cul...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery

av M Macarthur, Marit J Macarthur

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008-09-19

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Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Anti-Hero in the American Novel

av D Simmons, David Simmons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008-07-01

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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasiz...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism

av J Haytock, Jennifer Anne Haytock

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008-07-01

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This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature

av L Smith, Lindsey Claire Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008-09-26

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The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Culture of Soft Work

av H Hicks, Heather J Hicks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009-01-12

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The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Narrating Class in American Fiction

av W Dow, William Dow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009-01-13

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Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social ide...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Cormac McCarthy

av K Lincoln, Kenneth Lincoln

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009-01-12

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This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies

av C Seltzer, Catherine Seltzer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-11-30

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This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of so...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race

av S Kim

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010-01-13

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Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Cormac McCarthy

av K Lincoln, Kenneth Lincoln

Häftad, Engelska, 2010-02-09

613

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This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682-1826

av D MacNeil

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010-01-13

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The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Feni...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

African American Gothic

av M Wester, Maisha L Wester

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-11-09

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Re-reading major African American literary texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to ...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics

av Alan Ramón Clinton, Alan Ramon Clinton, Alan Ramón Clinton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-09-14

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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...

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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century:

Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body

av S Anderson, Sarah Anderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-09-14

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In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the¿Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memorie...

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