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John Steinbeck and the Critics
Av John Ditsky
Inbunden, 2000
1428 kr
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A fascinating survey of the changing fortunes of Steinbeck's critical reputation.This work by a prominent Steinbeck scholar begins with a study of the novelist's early celebrity in the 1930s and 1940s. Ditsky shows that by the late 1940s there was some falling off in Steinbeck's critical …
Wings of Atalanta
Essays Written along the Color Line
Inbunden, 2019
514 kr
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Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading African-American (and American) literature.This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore, America is - has always been - …
Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon
Häftad, 2009
501 kr
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New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work.Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had already won critical and popular acclaim …
Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past.Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and …
Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time
A Guide for Students and Readers
Häftad, 2009
345 kr
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A handbook to Hemingway's famous collection of short stories that emphasizes its status as a modernist masterwork.The volume of collected short stories and vignettes In Our Time was Ernest Hemingway's first commercial publication. Its appearance in 1925 launched the full-fledged literary career of …
Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry
Inbunden, 2010
1415 kr
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The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress.William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of American poetry in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. His simple language and focus on the …
Secret Violence of Henry Miller
Av Katy Masuga
Inbunden, 2011
674 kr
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Miller as a writer whose work does something more profound and violent to literary conventions than produce novel effects: it announces the possibility of difference and instability within language itself.Henry Miller is a cult figure in the world of fiction, in part due to having been banned for …
Divided Poet
Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance
Inbunden, 2011
607 kr
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Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole and in the context of the poet's career and development.North of Boston, Robert Frost's second book of verse and arguably his greatest, brought him suddenly into national prominence in 1915. Though completed and first published in …
Critical Reception of Flannery O'Connor, 1952-2017
Searchers and Discoverers
Inbunden, 2018
1503 kr
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The first chronological overview of O'Connor criticism from the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952 to the present.Flannery O'Connor is one of the most widely read, discussed, and taught of all American authors. She is immensely popular with students, general readers, and literary …
Hemingway and Africa
Häftad, 2016
606 kr
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New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work.Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of …
Imagining Home
American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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The first study to bring Hemingway, Vonnegut, O'Brien, and 9/11 literature together in order to examine views about war, gender, and domesticity over a hundred-year period.War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently …
Robert Lowell in a New Century
European and American Perspectives
Inbunden, 2019
1428 kr
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New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles.Robert Lowell (1917-1977) holds a place of unchallenged prominence in the poetic pantheon of the twentieth-century United States. He is an essential focal point for understanding …
Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now
Inbunden, 2023
1489 kr
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This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial …
Paul Bowles
In the American Grain
Inbunden, 2020
1415 kr
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Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.Paul Bowles has often been considered a cult writer, a literary renegade: he lived more than fifty years as an expatriate in …
F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered
Firsthand Accounts by Those Who Knew Him
Av Jackson R. Bryer, Richard Reisinger
Inbunden, 2025
1785 kr
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Personal reminiscences of Fitzgerald - many previously unpublished - by those who knew him, allowing the reader to construct a composite biography.Fitzgerald once wrote: "There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good." Since his …
F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered
Firsthand Accounts by Those Who Knew Him
Av Jackson R. Bryer, Richard Reisinger
Häftad, 2027
554 kr
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Personal reminiscences of Fitzgerald - many previously unpublished - by those who knew him, allowing the reader to construct a composite biography.Fitzgerald once wrote: "There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good." Since his …
