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  • Around Quitting Time

    Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction

    Series series New Americanists
    Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this atonce hopelessly ideological and breathlessly utopian mirage? In Around Quitting Time Robert Seguin investigates this question, focusing ... Leer más

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  • Playing in the Dark

    de Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... Leer más

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  • With Love and Squalor

    13 Writers Responds to the Work of J.D. Salinger

    Reading The Catcher in the Rye has become a rite of passage for young Americans, landing the book on bestseller lists (and banned book lists) each year, even though it was published a half century ago. What is it about J. D. Salinger and his body of work that has left such a lasting mark on American fiction? And who better to answer that question than the current generation of writers?Here are ... Leer más

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  • Understanding David Mamet

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders.Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that ... Leer más

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  • The H.D. Book

    de Robert Duncan ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan
    This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A ... Leer más

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  • Conversations with W. S. Merwin

    Edición de Michael Wutz, Hal Crimmel ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences (Robert Graves and Ezra Pound), his location within the twin poles of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, and his extraordinary work as a translator, ... Leer más

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  • The Emergence of Pre-Cinema

    Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of the Romantic age, in the prose of Anne Radcliffe, the experiments of Friedrich Schlegel, and in ... Leer más

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  • Interrogating Popular Culture

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    de Stacy Takacs ...
    Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing:Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edición de Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Leer más

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  • Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture

    Children of Empire

    de Denis Jonnes ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread rejection of contemporary American society.This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war family ... Leer más

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  • Travis McGee & Me

    Reflections on the Man from Slip F-18

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    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 ... Leer más

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