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  • The Contemporary American Novel in Context

    by Andrew Dix, Dr Brian Jarvis, Dr Paul Jenner ...
    Series series Texts and Contexts
    Assuming no prior knowledge and covering complex textual and contextual material in a clear, engaging way. this book is a critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • A Trail of Memories

    The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour

    by Angelique L'Amour ...
    For decades, generations of readers have shared their favorite passages of favorite Louis L'Amour novels and short stories: parents with their children, neighbors with their friends, executives with their staff and clergy with their congregations. They pass around dog-eared copies of the books, underlined and yellowing, recalling words that echoes in their readers' hearts and minds long after the ... Read more

    Was $7.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Portable Walt Whitman

    by Walt Whitman ...
    A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short storiesWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Understanding David Mamet

    by Brenda Murphy ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An introduction to the one of the most influential contemporary American playwrightsUnderstanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the past three decades, Mamet has written more than thirty produced plays and garnered recognition as one of the most ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Mutants

    Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

    by Ramzi Fawaz ...
    Series Book 1 - Postmillennial Pop
    **2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book PrizeFinalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies**How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions.In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Unvarnishing Reality

    Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire

    by Derek C. Maus ...
    Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode for authors from both nations—including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don ... Read more

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  • Trinity of Passion

    The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Real Folks

    Race and Genre in the Great Depression

    by Sonnet Retman ...
    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Bitter Tastes

    Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing

    by Donna M. Campbell ...
    Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • Garland in His Own Time

    A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates

    Edited by Keith Newlin ...
    Series series Writers in Their Own Time
    In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation’s press. Born in poverty and raised on a series of frontier farms, Garland fled the rural Midwest in 1881 at age twenty-one. When his stories combining the radical economic theories of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community

    Narratives of Salvation

    by Dr. Jesús Blanco Hidalga ...
    Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logic animating his work.Integrating various formal and ideological perspectives to illuminate Franzen's ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD