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  • Romanticism

    Critical Essays in American Literature

    Edición de James Barbour, Thomas Quirk ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
    First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of America’s Romantic literature. Some of these essays make connections between authors or define Romanticism in terms of one of the works; others address major issues during the period; others offer a ... Leer más

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  • Passing and the Fictions of Identity

    Series series New Americanists
    Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has served as a way for women and people of color to access male or white privilege. In their examination of this practice of crossing boundaries, ... Leer más

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  • Trimalchio

    An Early Version of The Great Gatsby

    For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald’s working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius—now available in ebook for the first time.Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio, an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby, is like listening to a ... Leer más

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  • Sanity Plea

    Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

    In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut’s works from Player Piano to Hocus Pocus, taking a decisively new approach to the work of one of America’s most important, yet often misinterpreted writers. A compelling and original ... Leer más

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  • Shade of the Raintree, Centennial Edition

    The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County

    This true story of literary stardom and sudden tragedy is "a riveting book, shattering and shot through with the powerful poignancy of a life undone" ( Detroit News).Raintree County, the first novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, won MGM's Novel Award and a movie deal, and stood at the top of the ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

    Edición de John N. Serio ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and ... Leer más

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  • Grace Paley

    Illuminating Dark Lives

    Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories.Drawing on interviews with the author, as well as the stories themselves, Taylor ... Leer más

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  • Stephen King's The Body: Bookmarked

    de Aaron Burch ...
    Series Libro 3 - Bookmarked
    A collection of four novellas, Different Seasons includes some of Stephen King's most enduring and well-known works, including "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," which was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption, and "The Body," which was made into the movie Stand by Me. For this entry in the Bookmarked series, Aaron Burch, editor of the literary journal Hobart, will focus on the ... Leer más

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  • The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
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  • The Southern Hospitality Myth

    Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory

    Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospitality—which is exercised among diverse individuals and is widely varied in its particular practices—and ... Leer más

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    "Theodore Dreiser, road warrior . . . Dreiser's account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one." — The Washington Post Book WorldBy 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over twenty years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with the idea of driving from New York ... Leer más

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  • Another Part of a Long Story

    Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton

    "An engrossing biography about the marital breakdown of a major literary figure, of particular interest for what it reveals about O'Neill's creative process, activities, and bohemian lifestyle at the time of his early successes and some of his most interesting experimental work. In addition, King's discussion of Boulton's efforts as a writer of pulp fiction in the early part of the 20th century ... Leer más

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