Greenwood Press, 2002. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-031331-1949. An extensive monograph - a study of the themes of the American short story based on broad historical and literary material. With an extensive scientific apparatus. This unique resource provides readers with a systematic guide to the central themes in 150 of the most commonly taught American novels. Each of the 50 well...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 261 p. Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. Dohra Ahmad adds to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this...
Plymouth UK: Lexington Books, 2010. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7391-3923-3. Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 201 p. With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material.
McFarland, 2017. — 228 p. — ASIN B073KQFDRP, ISBN 1476668345. Stephen King, "America's Favorite Boogeyman," has sold over 350 million copies of his books, becoming in effect the face of horror fiction. His influence on popular culture has drawn both strong praise and harsh criticism from reviewers and scholars alike. While his popularity cannot be overstated, his work has...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 208 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano. Heterotextual poetics reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 76 p. — ISBN10: 1137375744; ISBN13: 978-1137375742. Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. The...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 71 p. — ISBN10: 1137301317; ISBN13: 978-1137301314. By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing,...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 232 p. "Beach's criticism is not only level-headed but astute.The result: a reading lesson that telescopes a major trend in postwar poetry. Even after reading Christopher Beach's The Cambridge Introductin to Twentieth-Century American Poetry we may not know precisely why the deer and the dachshund are one. But we will have received what may...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 257 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful...
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2003. — 136 p. — (Language: English). In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics — the ways these...
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. — ISBN10: 0826358969; ISBN13: 978-0826358967 — (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics) The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 219 p. — ISBN10: 0230608361; ISBN13: 978-0230608368. This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman,...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-0300190595. Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful recounting of...
Blooms Literary Criticism, 2011. - 243 p. A tradition of poets that includes Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop has a palpable distinction, but it may be too soon to speak or write of a canon of American women poets. The poets studied in this volume are not chosen arbitrarily, yet consideration of the book’s length as well as the poets’ canonical probability...
Infobase Learning, 2011. - 146 p. Presents a collection of critical essays that discuss the plots, themes, and characters of the Nobel laureate's short stories. Hailed for his novels of post-Depression American life, John Steinbeck has received equal acclaim for his short fiction. This volume examines the reception and legacy of such enduring works as "The Red Pony," "The...
New York: Blooms Literary Criticism, 2009. — (Bloom's Literary Themes) — ISBN10: 079109801X; ISBN13: 978-0791098011. 'The American Dream' discusses the role of this theme in works of literature such as 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Death of a Salesman', 'The Great Gatsby', 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and many others. 20 essays and reprinted articles give context and...
Chelsea House Publications, 2003. — 120 p. The myth of E.E. Cummings stressed isolation, the difficulty of love, and the realities of death. This volume includes extracts from critical essays that examine important themes in Cummings' poetry. Studied works include "All in green went my love riding, " "Memorabilia, " "i sing of Olaf glad and big, " "somewhere i have never...
A course in American literature for the advanced study of English. bk. 1 — Washington, D.C. : English Teaching Division, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency, 1995. — 292 p. Intended for high-intermediate/advanced level students of English as a foreign language, this book contains selections from the wide range of American literature, from its beginnings...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1137379871; ISBN13: 978-1137379870. Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century. Can...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 — 273 p. — ISBN10: 1137488387; ISBN13: 978-1137488381. A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and...
American Conservatory Theater, 2004. — 55 p. Characters, cast, synopsis of, and preface to The Time Of Your Life. Biography of William Saroyan. Writer to Writer: Selections from Saroyan’s Letters. A Quarter for His Thoughts: Saroyan Memorabilia. Rulebook for Saroyanesques. An Interview with Director Tina Landau. Questions to consider. For further information...(books, websites,...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 331 p. John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic humor in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and American writings, and to offer a definitive account of the comic as the...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 265 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s. This study records conversations both explicit, such as essays...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 525 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture). This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing...
Continium, 2003. — 100 p. — ISBN: 0-8264-1477-X. The Novelist The Novel The Novel's Reception. The Novel Performance. Futher Reading and Discussion Questions Appendix: The Chronology of Infinite Jest.
The unauthorized guide to the mystery behind the Da Vinci Code Sequel. - New York: Squibnocket Partners LLC, 2009. - 234 p. The book follows the same format as the earlier books in the Secrets series, Secrets of the Code, Secrets of Angels & Demons, and Secrets of Mary Magdalene. It is a comprehensive reader's guide to a fascinating and complex novel 'The Lost Symbol'. Once...
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1906. — 204 p. My first acquaintance with Whitman’s writings (William Rossetti’s edition of the Poems) was made at Cambridge during the Long Vacation in the summer of 1868 — or it may have been’69. But it was not till 1877 that I crossed the Atlantic and paid my first visit to him. In 1884 I was again in the States, and saw Whitman several...
University Press of Mississippi, 1990. — 342 p. This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 — 504 p. — ISBN10: 1118647092; ISBN13: 978-1118647097. Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, "A Companion to T.S. Eliot" introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection...
Tuscon, AZ: Schaffner Press, 2011. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 1936182270; ISBN13: 978-1936182275 From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who...
Gale Cengage, 2010. — 365 p. Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians - experts who have helped to define the...
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. — 371 p. — ISBN: 0-691-04983-1. Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 313 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-0521-60399-7. Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007. — 155 p. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life – including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda – continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his image as the poet laureate of the 1920s, he was first and foremost a great...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan, 2011. — 344 p. — ISBN-10: 0819569585; ISBN-13: 978-0819569585. This new book by eminent scholar Michael Davidson gathers his essays concerning formally innovative poetry from modernists such as Mina Loy, George Oppen, and Wallace Stevens to current practitioners such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Robertson, and Mark Nowak. The book...
Harvard University Press. 2002. — 308 p. — ISBN: 0674006488, 0674015940 "The Language of War" examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 384 p. Preface page The American historical romance: a prospectus The Waverley-model and the rise of historical romance Historical romance and the stadialist model of progress The regionalism of historical romance Hawthorne and the ironies of New England history Melville: the red comets return The hero and heroine of historical romance The...
Praeger, 2004. — 172 p. The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms. While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which is generally approached synchronically, reading...
New Jersey: Princeton University Press,. 1993. —ISBN: 0-691-06975-1 Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia dedicated to her...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0299295109 Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey said he was too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie. It’s All a Kind of Magic is the first biography of Kesey. It reveals a youthful life of...
Xlibris Corp, 2005. — 319 p. — ISBN: 1-4134-8446-8. Opening Episod. Subsidized Time Scenes & Settings Keys to Narrative Structure Compendium of Major Characters The Plot of Infinite Jest : a Precis Key Themes and Narratives Techniques Minor Cnaracter & Real People Infinite Jest s Acronyms Slang & Idioms
University of California Press, 2018. — 464 p. Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. 376 p. ISBN10: 0195388984. ISBN13: 978-0195388985. Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 202 p. Robert Frost is one of the most popular of American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The poetry is discussed in detail in relation to ancient and modern...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 174 p. — ISBN10: 1137345500; ISBN13: 978-1137345509. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author...
New York: Liveright, 2015 — 496 p. — ISBN10: 163149001X; ISBN13: 978-1631490019. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco’s legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the Mind...
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. — 345 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-59376-188-2; ISBN10: 1-59376-188-0. Edited by Samuele F. S. Pardini. For more than fifty years Leslie Fielder played a crucial role in the development of American literary culture. Despite his often unacknowledged influence, the academy, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read his work and...
Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015. — 273 p. — ISBN10: 3034319665; ISBN13: 978-3034319669. Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a "new specimen of beauty"? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new understanding of Poe's literary significance by...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 147 p. Much remains uncertain about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, the mysterious author of one of the best-known American poems, The Raven, the Gothic romance The Fall of the House of Usher, and the first detective fiction, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. This book provides a balanced overview of Poe’s career and writings, resisting...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 288 p. Notes on Contributors Chronology Stephen Fredman Wars I Have Seen Peter Nicholls American poets’ response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British David Herd How US...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 192 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first to reveal the profound Catholic imagery in James' work. Edwin Fussell argues that Henry James, though not a "card-carrying" Catholic, was a fellow-traveling Catholic of a certain literary type. Fussell is not trying to turn James...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 320 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied Black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that will take its...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 169 p. Sylvia Plath is widely recognised as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has remained constantly in print in the UK and USA (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath’s own writing has been supplemented over the...
McGraw-Hill, 2002. — 1150 p. — ISBN: 978-0078-25110-8. "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Glencoe Literature for 2002 also "makes new things familiar and familiar things new." Designed to meet the needs of today's classroom, Glencoe Literature has been developed with careful...
Publisher: Routledge, London & New York, 2007. 144 p. Language: English. This guide to Salinger's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The Catcher in the Rye; a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present; a selection of new critical essays on the The Catcher in the Rye, by Sally...
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1911. — 340 p. The N.W. Harris lectures for 1911. This particular sketch of the relations between democracy and poetry opens with a retrospective view of the institution, and closes with a sort of prophecy about the art. In neither case is there the slightest pretence to completeness. Books and essays on...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. — 1979 — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0195024532; ISBN13: 978-0195024531. Studies the ways in which imaginative literature expresses religious meaning and considers the contribution of literary criticism to religious scholarship, maintaining that a reciprocity exists between literature and religion. . The Religious Use and Abuse of Literature: Notes Toward...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 300 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 300 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 275 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Frontier violence comes home to white Americans in twentieth-century fictions that interpret the meaning of the western American past. Rather than serving to regenerate, Handley argues, violence surrounding marriage and family is a degenerative sign of a nation that believed...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 272 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Bishop's career, dividing Bishop's work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work,...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 165 p. Edgar Allan Poe continues to be a fascinating literary agure to students and scholars alike. Increasingly the focus of study pushes beyond the fright and amusement of his famous tales and seeks to locate the author within the culture of his time. In Poe and the Printed Word, Kevin J. Hayes explores the relationship between...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007. — 154 p. Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby-Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville’s masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters coverMelville’s...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 242 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that,...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0748682856; ISBN13: 978-0748682850. Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and...
Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1964. — 49 p. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
University of Michigan Press, 2014. — 228 p. Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillam. — 2010. — 206 p. ISBN10: 023062202X; ISBN13: 978-0230622029. Huntsperger focuses on 4 eminent contemporary poets, such as Hejinian who was one of the first female contenders in the language movement, and Silliman, who has a blog that gets 100,000 views a week. Both Berrigan and Antin (deceased) are decidedly part of the postmodern poetry canon. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — viii, 315 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-33164-1, 978-3-030-33165-8. True PDF "Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930–1939" represents a major reevaluation of Henry Miller, focusing on the Paris texts from 1930 to 1939. Finn Jensen analyzes Miller in the light of European modernism, in particular considering the many impulses Miller received in...
Center for Hellenic Studies, 2006. — 320 p. The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world. The first half of...
Penguin Group, 2007. - 350 p. S. T. Joshi is a widely published writer and editor. He has edited three Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror tales as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002), Lord Dunsany’s In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales (2004), and two volumes of ghost stories by M. R. James (2005, 2006)....
Liverpool University Press, 2001. — 191 p. Ramsey Campbell is one of the worlds leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of CampbellвЂs rich and varied work, from his early tales to the powerfully innovative stories...
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2017. — 210 p. — ISBN10: 1433143054; ISBN13: 978-1433143052 Few poets have been as adamant about the uselessness of their art in the face of history as American poet George Oppen (1908-1984), and yet, few poets have been as viscerally convinced of the important role of the poem in restoring meaning to our words. Oppen came to maturity...
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 149 p. Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study ofWhitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American CivilWar, the growth of...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 464 p. Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing — or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the...
New York: Taylor & Francis Books, 2004. — 198 p. — ISBN: 0-415-96633-7 Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 621 p. — ISBN10: 1405195533; ISBN13: 978-1405195539. A Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 — 712 p. — ISBN10: 0631208925; ISBN13: 978-0631208921. This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the...
Melville House, 2019. — 206 p. When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. — 205 p. Fraternal Devotions: Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America. Gish Jen and the Gendered Codes of Americanness. Transversing Nationalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters . Global-Local Discourse and Gendered Screen Fictions in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 179 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the time of Poe. It describes how America - through political movements, changes in education, magazine editorial policy and the work of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0826427634; ISBN13: 978-0826427632. A close look at the genesis of one of America's great modern writers. Robert Emmet Long presents a full account of Truman Capote's early life, making use of Capote's unpublished papers. Topics covered include his strange relationship with his beautiful but immature mother (she was sixteen years...
Routledge, 2005. — 306 p. A compendium of critical receptions of major works of John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers (September 1921), One Man’s Initiation — 1917 (London, October 1920 New York, June 1922), Manhattan Transfer (November 1925), The 42nd Parallel (February 1930), 1919 (March 1932), The Big Money (August 1936), Adventures of a Young Man (June 1939), Number One (March...
Foreword by Lee Child. — Polity, 2019. — 290 p. Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me , the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 268 p. Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson’s biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 160 p. Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologized has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 264 p. There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the...
Timber Press, 2019. — 268 p. — ISBN: 978-1604698220. Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener — sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory...
Durham: New Hampshire University Press, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1512601365; ISBN13: 978-1512601367 — (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville’s novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she...
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001 — 202 p. — ISBN10: 0791449548; ISBN13: 978-0791449547. Holding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 152 p. Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible...
University of Missouri Press, 2001. - 207 p. English language. John Updike and the Cold War. - Note on Citation - Introduction - Knowledge of an Immense Catastrophe - Zero-Sum Marriages, Global Games - Vietnam and the Politics of Undovishness - Seeing How the Other Half Lives - A Reason to Get Up in the Morning - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 305 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-38265-6. Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Through the voice of American fiction, Religion and Sexuality in American Fiction examines the relations of body and spirit (religion and sexuality) by asking two basic questions: How have American novelists handled the interaction between religious and sexual experience? Are...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 162 p. Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound’s life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction is designed to help...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0199218269; ISBN13: 978-0199218264. Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later...
New York, London: Grove Press, Inc. , Evergreen Books. Ltd., 1947. — 120 p. First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences - especially Shakespearean ones - on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," Olson argues that...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. — 382 p. — ISBN-10: 0520208730; ISBN-13: 978-0520208735. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910–1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. — 90 p. — ISBN: 224 6i379 0; 224 6l378 2. Some time towards the end of 1950, it was in December I think, but the letter isn't dated, I heard that Charles Olson was off to Yucatan. A sudden 'fluke' - the availability of some retirement money owed him from past work as a mail carrier-gave him enough for the trip, 'not much but a couple of hundred,...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. — 534 p. — ISBN: 0-520-20580-4. Edited by Ralph Maud. For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. — 382 p. — ISBN10: 0520208730; ISBN13: 978-0520208735. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910–1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the...
New York: Paragon House, 1989. — 154 p. — ISBN: 1-55778-111-7. Among poets in mid-century America, Charles Olson is a dominating and influential figure. He is best known for The Maximus Poems, an epic sequence which Olson worked on for twenty years, f r om 1950 until his death in 1970. Set in the place where he spent summers as a child, the seacoast town of Gloucester,...
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo. 2008. — 248 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-39375-4 ISBN13: 978-0-521-88405-1. Modern poetry crossed racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book,...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 156 p. As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style....
USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 275 p. Prologue: On the Breadlines and the Headlines. Labor and Desire: A Gendered History of Literary Radicalism. The Contradictions of Gender and Genre. The Great Mother: Female Working-Class Subjectivity. Grotesque Creatures: The Female Intellectual as Subject. Epilogue: Bread and Roses Too: Notes toward a Materialist-Feminist...
USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 275 p. Prologue: On the Breadlines and the Headlines. Labor and Desire: A Gendered History of Literary Radicalism. The Contradictions of Gender and Genre. The Great Mother: Female Working-Class Subjectivity. Grotesque Creatures: The Female Intellectual as Subject. Epilogue: Bread and Roses Too: Notes toward a Materialist-Feminist...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 — 295 p. — ISBN10: 0520240154; ISBN13: 978-0520240155. Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 187 p. — ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–7238–5, ISBN-10: 1–4039–7238–9. Sisters in Sin: Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun. The Image of You, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime: Lillian Hellman’s Memories of Black Women. The Very House of Difference: Audre Lorde’s Autobiographies. Just This Side of Colored: Ellen Foster and Night Talk....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 — 346 p. — ISBN10: 0521694507; ISBN13: 978-0521694506. Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 156 p. Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important authors in nineteenth-century America. Today, her reputation is more complex, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been debated and analyzed in many different ways. This book provides a summary of Stowe’s...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 246 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In Emerson and the Conduct of Life, David M. Robinson describes Ralph Waldo Emerson's evolution from mystic to pragmatist, stressing the importance of Emerson's undervalued later writing. Emerson's reputation has rested on the addresses and essays of the 1830s and 1840s, in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 264 p. Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 174 p. ISBN13: 978-0-521-89686-3. Throughout its history, America has been the scene of multiple encounters between communities speaking different languages. Literature has long sought to represent these encounters in various ways, from James Fenimore Cooper’s frontier fictions to the Jewish-American writers who popularized Yiddish as a...
University of Missouri Press, 2008. - 287 p. ISBN: 082621827X Cosmopolitan Twain takes seriously Mark Twain’s life as a citizen of urban landscapes: from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna to the suburban utopia of Hartford. Traditional readings of Mark Twain orient his life and work by distinctly rural markers such as the Mississippi River, the Wild West,...
New York University Press, 2015. — viii, 199 p. — (Cultural Front). — ISBN: 978-1-4798-2886-9, 978-1-4798-0555-6. True PDF "Deafening Modernism" tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist...
Liverpool University Press. 2000. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0853238448. This wide-ranging volume explores the various dialogues that flourish between different aspects of science fiction: academics and fans, writers and readers; ideological stances and national styles; different interpretations of the genre; and how language and "voices" are used in constructing SF. Introduced by the...
Interview of Elissa Schappell with the famous afro-american writer Toni Morrison, 1992 In the interview the writer tells about her habits and schedule of work. She also comments on writing as a profession and her comprehension of it.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-2015. — 3696 p. p.Volumes 1-4. The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose of one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. The result of a multi-year collaboration among Eliot's Estate, Faber and Faber Ltd., Johns Hopkins University Press, the Beck...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 303 p. This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a...
Rutgers University Press, 2012. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-0-813-55167-8. Dorothy West is best known as one of the youngest writers involved in the Harlem Renaissance. Subsequently, her work is read as a product of the urban aesthetics of this artistic movement. But West was also intimately rooted in a very different milieu — Oak Bluffs, an exclusive retreat for African Americans on...
Oxford Univerity Press, 1993. — 228 p. Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art in verse, prose, and paint; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward its outlook - the autocracies of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In his old age T.S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 283 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Edith Wharton emerges in this book as a novelist of morals (rather than manners). Behind her polished portraits of upper-class New York life is a thoughtful, questioning spirit. This book analyzes Wharton's religion and philosophy in short stories and seven major novels. It...
Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0773540830; ISBN13: 978-0773540835. Edgar Allan Poe, arguing that brevity and intensity were the essence of poetry, declared there was no such thing as a long poem. It can also be said there is no difference between a short and a long poem except duration: a measure of time. Time in Time examines what the...
Berkeley University of California Press, 2014 — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0520241606; ISBN13: 978-0520241602. Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra...
2012. — 328 p. — ISBN: 1481078763, First Bill Steigerwald took John Steinbeck's classic "Travels With Charley" and used it as a map for his own cross-country road trip in search of America. Then he proved Steinbeck's iconic nonfiction book was a 50-year-old literary fraud. A true story about the triumph of truth. "Steinbeck falsified his trip. I am delighted that you went deep...
Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2015 — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0816694419; ISBN13: 978-0816694419 Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 264 p. — (Hopkins Studies in Modernism). — ISBN10: 142142357X; ISBN13: 978-1421423579 In Red Modernism , Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned — and aesthetically responsive — to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the...
Routledge, 2009. — 274 p. Introduction: “A Band of National Union”: Literature, Gender, and American Language Ideologies Hope Leslie, Women’s Petitions, and Political Discourse in Jacksonian America Vocal (Im)Propriety and the Management of Sociopolitical Mobility in The Wide, Wide World and Ragged Dick The (Re)Construction of Dialect and African American (Dis)Franchisement in...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
The Glencoe Literature Library presents full-length novels, nonfiction, and plays bound. together with shorter selections of various genres that relate by theme or topic to the. main reading. Each work in the Library has a two-part Study Guide that contains a. variety of resources for both you and your students. Use the Guide to plan your. instruction of the work and enrich...
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. — 281 p. — ISBN10: 0786467886; ISBN13: 978-0786467884. Seventeen interviews with George and Mary Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought together for the first time. Two are fresh discoveries, while re-audited recordings of other interviews have given a new authoritative accuracy to the text. These conversations provide a unique...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 296 p. In the wings of histories about the Progressive Era and literary modernism stands a cohort of individuals who promoted reform by popularizing poetry, working behind the scenes to create an institutional infrastructure to support authors who addressed the problems of contemporary life. In this engagingly written and thoroughly researched book,...
London: Continuum, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1441163212; ISBN13: 978-1441163219 — (Continuum Literary Studies. Book 198) In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 246 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues...
Routledge 2003. — 206 p. - Rhetoric of Identification - New Rhetoric of Genre - Utopia as Rhetorical Subject Chapter One: Utopia and Utopianism - Utopia and Ideology - Utopia as Literary Genre Chapter Two: Utopianism and Feminism - Scrapping False Dichotomies - Genre Transformation Chapter Three: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human Race - The Real World - Utopian Chronotope -...
Revised Edition — HarperCollins, 2019. — 368 p. When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters ,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2008, -126 p. Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South, Nobel laureateWilliam Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. This introductory book provides students and readers of Faulkner with a clear overview of his life and work. His nineteen...
Routledge, 2006. — 465 p. Providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis, this guide can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the study of primary theoretical works. It aims to motivate readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 240 p. Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and transitional society. By this interpretation he introduces a new and imaginative approach to the writer and his work, and Howells emerges...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. — 300 p. Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture. Walls reveals that the scientific...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 283 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This book juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — (Cambridge Companions to Literature). This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and writing in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's work and bring into focus the broader cultural contexts that lent resonance to his...
Book about Meg Cabot series: Who Wrote That? English language. Over $130 Lots of color photographs. Meg Cabot is the author of The Princess Diaries, Jinx, Pants on Fire and other popular novels for teens and adults. Foreword by Kyle Zimmer President, First Book - Princess in Pink - A Star Is Born - How to Be Popular - College Bound - Princess in the City - Queen of Romance -...
2nd Ed. — Facts on File, 2009. — 859 p. — (Companion to Literature). — ISBN10: 081606895X, ISBN13: 978-0816068951. Since the first American short story was published in 1799, interest in the genre has continued to grow: sales of collections have risen, short story readings proliferate in bookstores, and stories have been increasingly incorporated in the college curriculum....
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 308 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This study analyzes the power, allure, and consequences of radical individualism and the kind of cultural critique it generates in the major figure of American Romanticism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the central figure of American modernism, Ezra Pound. Both writers set out to...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 230 p. — ISBN10: 0691123578; ISBN13: 978-0691123578. How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 167 p. The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to great works of American literature. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the work’s composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 516 p. Notes on Contributors. Greg W. Zacharias. Chronology of Henry James’s Life and Work. Jennifer Eimers. Part I Fiction and Non-Fiction. Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878. Clair Hughes. What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study. Sarah Wadsworth. Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in...
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