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  • Beyond the Blurb

    On Critics and Criticism

    Beyond the Blurb is a selection of essays that identifies the most important principles of literary criticism and considers the relevance of those principles in the work of specific literary critics, including James Wood, Harold Bloom, and Susan Sontag. Intended for academic and general readers alike, this insightful collection of essays takes a contrarian attitude toward current orthodoxies—its ... Leer más

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  • Beyond the Blurb

    On Critics and Criticism

    Beyond the Blurb is a selection of essays that identifies the most important principles of literary criticism and considers the relevance of those principles in the work of specific literary critics, including James Wood, Harold Bloom, and Susan Sontag. Intended for academic and general readers alike, this insightful collection of essays takes a contrarian attitude toward current orthodoxies—its ... Leer más

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  • Abroad : British Literary Traveling between the Wars

    British Literary Traveling between the Wars

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  • On Poets and Others

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    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Leer más

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  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Leer más

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  • American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

    A Critical Reassessment

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    The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that ... Leer más

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    Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

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    Explores the works of Stephen King, one of the world’s best-selling horror writers, through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. This title argues that King’s writing explores many of the issues analysed by critics and philosophers. ... Leer más

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  • The Properties of Violence

    Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching

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