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  • Postmodern/Postwar and After

    Rethinking American Literature

    Edited by Jason Gladstone, Andrew Hoberek, Daniel Worden ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • The Geographical History of America

    Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

    by Gertrude Stein ...
    First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature. ... Read more

    $7.99 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

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  • Revolution and the Word

    The Rise of the Novel in America

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publishers' account books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

    The Literature of Loss

    by Monica Pearl ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the AIDS ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Travis McGee & Me

    Reflections on the Man from Slip F-18

    by D. R. Martin ...
    Travis McGee & Me is D. R. Martin’s book-by-book personal take on the famous boat bum hero created by John D. MacDonald. The twenty-one McGee novels have been continuously in print since their original publication dates, from 1964 to 1985. Not only have they been tremendously popular with readers, they have inspired generations of crime fiction writers.These essays are partly book reports, and ... Read more

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  • American Metempsychosis

    Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry

    by John Michael Corrigan ...
    The “transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human.” With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history. Americans, Emerson argues, must realize history’s chronology in themselves—because their own minds and ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Outsider Citizens

    The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin

    by Sarah Relyea ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Outsider Citizens examines a foundational moment in the writing of race, gender, and sexuality––the decade after 1945, when Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, and others sought to adapt existentialism and psychoanalysis to the representation of newly emerging public identities. Relyea offers the first book-length study bringing together Wright and Beauvoir to reveal their common sources and ... Read more

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  • Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography

    by Juan Velasco ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first book length study of this genre, Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography facilitates new understandings of how people and cultures are displaced and reinvent themselves. Through the examination of visual arts and literature, Juan Velasco analyzes the space for self-expression that gave way to a new paradigm in contemporary Chicana/o ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Accident Society

    Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance

    by Jason Puskar ...
    This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents." During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Creole Testimonies

    Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838

    by N. Aljoe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Hemingway on Love

    by Robert W. Lewis ...
    Love was a central theme of Ernest Hemingway's major works. And although his passages on sexual love and on romantic love may be widely remembered and frequently quoted, says Robert W. Lewis in this scholarly and detailed consideration, Hemingway's later work revealed his ultimate belief that brotherly love was the supreme love of mankind. Eros, Hemingway concluded, was a neutral value, neither ... Read more

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