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“john funchion”

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  • Novel Nostalgias

    The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth Century U.S. Literature

    by John Funchion ...
    Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature establishes how the longing to recover a lost home or past drove some of the central conflicts of the nineteenth-century United States. Providing one of the few U.S. literary histories that examines cultural material from both before and after the Civil War, John Funchion argues that a diverse array of novels, ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Mapping Region in Early American Writing

    by William V. Lombardi, Robert Gunn, Andy Doolen, Duncan Faherty, Martha Schoolman, Steven W. Thomas, Jennifer Schell, Harry Brown, Janet Neary, Hollis Robbins ...
    Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

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  • Everybody Behaves Badly

    The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

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    The New York Times bestseller. " Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book."— The Washington PostIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, ... Read more

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  • Paul Auster

    by Mark Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified optimism, the book shows ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They ... Read more

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  • Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Book Analysis)

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    by Bright Summaries ...
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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Eat, Pray, Love with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, an autobiographical account of the year-long journey undertaken by the author following her painful divorce. In her travels across Italy, India and Indonesia, she overcomes her loneliness and depression, ... Read more

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  • A Susan Sontag Reader

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ, there is an essential unity in all her work. The truth of this is perhaps more evident in A Susan Sontag ... Read more

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  • Writing an Icon

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  • The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Edited by Ruth Prigozy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • Chuck Palahniuk

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    Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists. This book is the first guide to bring together scholars from a full range of critical perspectives to explore three of Palahniuk's most widely-studied novels: Fight ... Read more

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