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Artifice of Affect
American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth
Inbunden, 2024
1343 kr
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Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary …
Artifice of Affect
American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth
Häftad, 2025
594 kr
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Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary …
Midcentury Minor Novel
American Fiction, 1945–1965
Inbunden, 2024
1531 kr
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The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a …
Midcentury Minor Novel
American Fiction, 1945–1965
Häftad, 2026
283 kr
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The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a …
Midcentury Minor Novel
American Fiction, 1945–1965
E-bok, 2024
375 kr
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The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a …
Midcentury Minor Novel
American Fiction, 1945–1965
E-bok, 2024
375 kr
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The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a …
David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism
Av Matt Prout
Inbunden, 2024
2270 kr
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David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace's work, showing that they are of fundamental importance to his writing in its form and its themes. Wallace's work articulates a deep ambivalence about the value of scepticism, on the one hand …
David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism
Av Matt Prout
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace’s work, showing that they are of fundamental importance to his writing in its form and its themes. Wallace’s work articulates a deep ambivalence about the value of scepticism, on the one hand …
David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism
Av Matt Prout
E-bok, 2024
375 kr
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David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace's work, showing that they are of fundamental importance to his writing in its form and its themes. Wallace's work articulates a deep ambivalence about the value of scepticism, on the one hand …
Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel
Coming-of-Age 1990–2020
Inbunden, 2025
2102 kr
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What experiences constitute 'girlhood'? What personal and social pathways are available to girls in contemporary American fiction? These questions lie at the heart of this book, which argues that emancipatory new representations of girlhood have emerged in novels published between 1990 2020, in …
Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel
Coming-of-Age 1990–2020
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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What experiences constitute ‘girlhood’? What personal and social pathways are available to girls in contemporary American fiction? These questions lie at the heart of this book, which argues that emancipatory new representations of girlhood have emerged in novels published between 1990–2020, in …
Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry
Av Elin Käck
Inbunden, 2025
2102 kr
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American poets were at the core of the modernist movement, a position largely contingent on their being in Europe. But what role has European travel played in the development of American poetry since then? Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry examines poems and other writings by over …
Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry
Av Elin Käck
Häftad, 2027
289 kr
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American poets were at the core of the modernist movement, a position largely contingent on their being in Europe. But what role has European travel played in the development of American poetry since then? Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry examines poems and other writings by over …
Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Av Lola Boorman
Häftad, 2027
352 kr
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Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar – through various, diverse institutional settings – and how they use it in their work …
Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Av Lola Boorman
Inbunden, 2025
2186 kr
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Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar through various, diverse institutional settings and how they use it in their work to …
Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Av Lola Boorman
E-bok, 2025
469 kr
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Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar – through various, diverse institutional settings – and how they use it in their work …
Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Av Lola Boorman
E-bok, 2025
469 kr
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Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar – through various, diverse institutional settings – and how they use it in their work …
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction
From Ragtime to Swing Time
Inbunden, 2018
2183 kr
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A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald’s short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930sF. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered primarily as a novelist, but he wrote nearly two hundred short stories for popular magazines such as the widely-read Saturday Evening Post. These are …
Literature of Suburban Change
Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America
Av Martin Dines
Inbunden, 2020
2437 kr
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Explores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbiaExamines the ways American writers from the 1960s to the present – including John Updike, Richard Ford, Gloria Naylor, Jeffrey Eugenides, D. J. Waldie, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz and John …
Literature of Suburban Change
Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America
Av Martin Dines
Häftad, 2022
711 kr
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Explores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbiaExamines the ways American writers from the 1960s to the present – including John Updike, Richard Ford, Gloria Naylor, Jeffrey Eugenides, D. J. Waldie, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz and John …
Plastic Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Expressionist Drama and the Visual Arts
Inbunden, 2021
951 kr
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Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature
Av Sarah Daw
Inbunden, 2018
1531 kr
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First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literatureCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry by authors including Paul Bowles, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Mary McCarthy reveals the prevalence …
Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959–1973
Inbunden, 2025
1455 kr
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In the long 1960s, struggles for the rights to abortion, contraception and reproduction itself gathered momentum. This book explores reproduction in American literature and film produced between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, and argues that writers and filmmakers of this period engaged with …
Sensing Willa Cather
The Writer and the Body in Transition
Inbunden, 2021
1531 kr
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A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather’s oeuvreDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather’s vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads Cather as a writer at the …
Sensing Willa Cather
The Writer and the Body in Transition
Häftad, 2023
594 kr
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A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreDistinctive contribution to 'Body Studies'Offers a new way to understand Cather's relationship to literary /cultural ModernismDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing …
Little Art Colony and US Modernism
Carmel, Provincetown, Taos
Inbunden, 2020
1414 kr
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Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth centuryHistoricizes and theorizes the role and function of the little art community as a geo-social formationComparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sites New readings of major …
Little Art Colony and US Modernism
Carmel, Provincetown, Taos
Häftad, 2022
637 kr
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This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production. Alongside a historical overview of the emergence of three critical sites of modernist …
Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Inbunden, 2019
2437 kr
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Analyses the theme of laziness in twentieth-century American LiteratureUncovers the ethical dimension of the writing of Stein, Hemingway, Barth, Barthelme and Wallace by situating them in the context of the 20th century non-normative ethical and aesthetic traditionShows how the Romantic interest in …
