Understanding Contemporary American Literature – serie
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Understanding Paul Auster
Häftad, 2017
283 kr
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Understanding Paul Auster is a comprehensive companion to the work of a writer who effectively balances a particular combination of Jewish American identity and European sensibility across an impressive breadth of novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry. James Peacock views Auster as chiefly …
Understanding Bernard Malamud
Häftad, 1985
284 kr
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The word understanding in the series titles was deliberately chosen. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary literature …
Understanding Vladimir Nabokov
Häftad, 1987
300 kr
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature was planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The word understanding in the series titles was deliberately chosen. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary literature …
Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction
The Formative Period, 1926-70
Häftad, 1992
300 kr
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Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr.
Inbunden, 1998
393 kr
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Since the publication in 1964 of his novel ""Last Exit to Brooklyn"", which arguably achieved the status of a cult classic, Hubert Selby, Jr., has held a place as one of the foremost exponents of American underground literature. His work has yet to receive extensive critical attention, in part …
Understanding Flannery O'Connor
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
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Describing Flannery O'Connor's fiction as ""violent, grotesque and horribly funny, with a twist"", Margaret Earley Whitt explores the canon of the Georgia writer whose work has long haunted and harassed its readers. In a comprehensive survey that encompasses O'Connor's short stories, novels, essays …
Understanding Jill McCorkle
Inbunden, 2000
586 kr
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Understanding Jill McCorkle introduces readers to the novels and short story collections of Jill McCorkle's growing canon. Since 1984 McCorkle has written five novels and two books of short stories, entering the publishing world, as one reviewer noted, ""with the literary equivalent of a rebel …
Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason
Av Joanna Price
Inbunden, 2000
393 kr
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An analysis introducing Mason's nonfiction prose, short stories and novels. Price sheds light on the writer's distinctive style and thematic concerns in her writings about contemporary Western Kentucky.
Understanding Contemporary American Literary Theory
Häftad, 2003
299 kr
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This work is an appraisal of six theorists who have shaped America's literary landscape; Stanley Fish, Susan Bordo, Paul de Man, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Edward W.Said and Stephen Greenblatt. Underscoring the largely heterogenous mix of strategies and suppositions that these critics represent it …
Understanding Carson McCullers
Av Virginia Spencer Carr, Matthew J. Bruccoli m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
299 kr
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The definitive introduction to the complex author of ""The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."" Updated with a discussion of recent scholarship, ""Understanding Carson McCullers"" provides a balanced introductory study of the Georgia-born novelist's major fiction and the reasons for her extraordinary and …
Understanding Jamaica Kincaid
Inbunden, 2007
586 kr
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Understanding Jamaica Kincaid introduces readers to the prizewinning author best known for the novels ""Annie John"", ""Lucy"", and ""The Autobiography of My Mother"". Justin D. Edwards surveys Jamaica Kincaid's life, career, and major works of fiction and nonfiction to identify and discuss her …
Understanding Tony Kushner
Av James Fisher
Inbunden, 2008
586 kr
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This is a comprehensive guide to the writing career of the author of ""Angels in America"".""Understanding Tony Kushner"" surveys the acclaimed writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize - winning drama ""Angels in America"" and coauthor of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film …
Understanding Charles Wright
Av Joe Moffett
Inbunden, 2009
402 kr
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This is a literary roadmap to navigating the ""Trilogy of Trilogies"" by one of America's most celebrated poets.One of America's most accomplished and honored contemporary poets, Charles Wright has received the PEN Translation Prize, the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore …
Understanding T. C. Boyle
Av Paul Gleason
Inbunden, 2009
393 kr
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This is the first critical companion to the works of this darkly comic short story writer and novelist. ""Understanding T. C. Boyle"" is the first book-length study of one of contemporary America's most prolific, popular, and critically acclaimed fiction writers. The author of seven short story …
Understanding Richard Powers
Av Joseph Dewey
Häftad, 2008
283 kr
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This is a critical survey of works by a writer torn between Emersonian engagement and Dickinsonesque withdrawal.""Understanding Richard Powers"" presents an introduction to one of the most important and admired writers to emerge in the post-Pynchon era of American literature. Joseph Dewey contends …
Understanding James Welch
Häftad, 2008
283 kr
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This is a valuable companion to the works of an acclaimed Native American writer.In ""Understanding James Welch"", Ron McFarland offers analysis and critical commentary on the works of the renowned Blackfeet - Gros Ventre writer whose first novel, ""Winter in the Blood"", has become a classic in …
Understanding Lorrie Moore
Av Alison Kelly
Inbunden, 2009
393 kr
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This is the first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of ""Birds of America"". ""Understanding Lorrie Moore"" is a comprehensive companion to the works of this wickedly humorous writer, whose fiction shows a deep sensitivity to the dynamics of contemporary …
Understanding Joseph Heller
Häftad, 2009
348 kr
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This is a critical survey of the complete body of work by the author of ""Catch-22"". In this revised edition, Sanford Pinsker explores the idiosyncratic vision that permeates Heller's writings, as he maps the dark terrain Heller carved out, novel by novel, with considerable verbal dazzle and the …
Understanding Jack Kerouac
Av Matt Theado
Häftad, 2009
299 kr
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This is a concise companion to the novels of the king of the Beats. ""Understanding Jack Kerouac"" introduces readers to what Matt Theado calls Kerouac's 'unwieldy accretion of published work' - fiction, poetry, nonfiction, selected letters, religious writing, and 'true-story novels'. Presenting …
Understanding Philip K. Dick
Inbunden, 2009
1498 kr
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This is a guidebook into the fantastic world of a science fiction legend. Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only increased since his …
Understanding Jane Smiley
Häftad, 2010
348 kr
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This book offers an insightful introduction to the strikingly imaginative range of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. This fully updated edition of the only book-length study of Jane Smiley serves as a comprehensive survey of the innovative author's literary career in relation to her social, …
Understanding Kurt Vonnegut
Häftad, 2009
283 kr
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This is a critical companion to Vonnegut's early novels. ""Understanding Kurt Vonnegut"" is a critical analysis of Vonnegut's fiction as a point of entrance for students and general readers alike. In close readings of Vonnegut's novels, William Rodney Allen examines the distinctive stylistic, …
Understanding Lillian Hellman
Av Alice Griffin, Geralding Thorsten
Häftad, 2010
299 kr
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This is a concise introduction to one of America's preeminent playwrights and memorists. In this perceptive study of the literary career of Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), Alice Griffin and Geraldine Thorsten provide a balanced, in-depth examination of Hellman's major works. In the thirties, when …
Understanding Sherman Alexie
Häftad, 2012
299 kr
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Drawing comparisons with such established Native American writers as N. Scott Momaday and James Welch as well as with Generation X peers, Grassian presents Alexie’s work as equally informed by Native American culture and generic, mainstream influences.
Understanding August Wilson
Häftad, 2011
348 kr
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This revised edition provides a comprehensive view of the thematic structure of Wilson's plays, the placement of his work within the context of American drama, and the distinctively African American experiences and traditions that he dramatizes. It includes a revised introduction, revised chapters, …
Understanding Tennessee Williams
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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Provides an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, this considers Williams both as a literary …
