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  • Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    Hundreds of memoirs novels plays and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire in this instance refers not ... Leer más

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  • Friendly Fire

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, ... Leer más

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

    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, ... Leer más

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  • The Portable Walt Whitman

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration

    A Library of America Special Publication

    de Philip Roth ...
    On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected ... Leer más

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  • Beneath the American Renaissance

    The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

    The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David ... Leer más

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  • Thrill of the Chaste

    The Allure of Amish Romance Novels

    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    Take a peek beneath the bonnet.Browse the inspirational fiction section of your local bookstore, and you will likely find cover after cover depicting virtuous young women cloaked in modest dresses and wearing a pensive or playful expression. They hover innocently above sun-drenched pastures or rustic country lanes, often with a horse-drawn buggy in the background—or the occasional brawny stranger. ... Leer más

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  • God and the American Writer

    de Alfred Kazin ...
    God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years--that is, since the same author's On Native Grounds.--Louis S. AuchinclossThis is the culminating work of the finest living critic of American literature. Alfred Kazin brings a lifetime of thought and ... Leer más

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  • Real Folks

    Race and Genre in the Great Depression

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Musical Novel

    Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

    What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are ... Leer más

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  • Red, Black, and Jew

    New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature

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    Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew writers. Red, Black, and Jew illuminates a unique and often overlooked aspect of these literary ... Leer más

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