Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
New Directions Publishing Corporation Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThe late Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets.
£13.29
New Directions Publishing Corporation Something to Say W.C. Williams on Younger Poets
Book SynopsisGathers the author's reviews, essays, and letters concerning modern poets, including Rexroth, Lowell, and Ginsberg
£18.04
New Directions Publishing Corporation Martn and Meditations on the South Valley Poems
Book SynopsisFiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or "detribalized Apache."
£11.88
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
Book SynopsisConsidered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—."Trade Review""Here is the early work of this central figure in 20th century poetry in all its power and dazzling variety."" -- Library Journal
£20.89
New Directions Publishing Corporation Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
Book SynopsisConsidered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard—."
£19.94
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vieux Carre a
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Nonconformists Memorial Poems
Book SynopsisA poetic re-piecing of history.Trade Review"Howe has continued to produce work of meditative urgency unmatched in recent American poetry." -- Geoffrey O'Brien - Voice Literary Supplement
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume VII In
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Way It Wasnt From the Files of James Laughlin
Book SynopsisLavishly illustrated, The Way It Wasn't offers an intimate firsthand encounter with 20th-century Modernism, from the extraordinary man who defined it for America.Trade Review"Laughlin was more than the greatest American publisher of the twentieth century: His press was the twentieth century." -- Eliot Weinberger - The Nation"I urge you to read this unforgettable parade of portraits … which changed my life and those of my peers." -- Irving Malin - The Hollins Critic"A selection of glittering fragments punctuated by superb illustrations." -- George Core - Sewanee Review
£22.39
Chronicle Books A Natural Man
Book SynopsisIn wide-ranging poems, Soto explores topics of ethnic identity, death and aging, lust and love.
£11.70
The University Press of Kentucky A Political Companion to Walker Percy Political
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The Catholic University of America Press Reading the Ground Poetry of Thomas Kinsella
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study explores Thomas Kinsella's development within both the Irish and the English contexts, and defines the nature of his poetic achievement. It also offers a new reading of Kinsella's evolving relationship to one of his major literary forebears, W.B. Yeats.
£34.16
The Catholic University of America Press Through the Past Darkly History and Memory in
Book SynopsisThis English-language study of Francois Mauriac's ""Bloc-notes"", presents these poignant, incisive editorials on social justice, war, and human rights in postwar France as both symptomatic of a culture imbued with the past and emblematic of a Christian humanist's ethical approach to history and memory.
£67.50
The Catholic University of America Press Fyodor Dostoevsky Walker Percy and the Age of
Book SynopsisPresents a study of the phenomenon of suicide in modern and post-modern society as represented in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. In his study, suicide is understood in both a literal and spiritual sense as referring to both the actual suicides in their works and to the broader social malaise of spiritual suicide.
£67.50
Rutgers University Press What Democracy Looks Like
Book SynopsisCollectively urging scholars and educators to pay attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this book inaugurates a critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.Trade ReviewAn impressive and eclectic collection that does a compelling job of addressing contemporary concerns over resistance to globalism, capitalism, and continuing attempts to silence dissenters.-Emory Elliott, editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United StatesTable of ContentsContents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Critical Realism; Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi; A Short World History of ""Seattle"": 1994-2005; Body Count/Bodies Count; 1. Working-Class Actuality: ""The Great Unexamined""; Janet Zandy; 2. Crane and the Body Count; Cindy Weinstein; 3. Why Set a Free Man Free? Mark Twain, Empire and Gender; Amy Kaplan. 4. Welcoming the Unbidden: The Case for Human Biodiversity Rosemarie Garland Thomson; 5. Consumer Compassion: The ""Face"" of Global AIDS Roger Hallas Experiments in Reality; 7. ""There is evil in the world an I'm going to do something about it"": William Faulkner as Political Resource Joseph R. Urgo; 8. Rhetoric, Politics, and Ethics in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo James Phelan; 9. Fear and Loathing in Globalization Fredric Jameson; 10. Hawthorne and Class Teresa Goddu; 11. Experiments in Reality: Wycoff's Workers Jonathan Prude The Commons; 12. Cooper and the Tragedy of the Commons Dana D. Nelson; 13. Looks the Same to Me: Post Seattle, Post Sealth Paula Gunn-Allen; 14. Agriculture, Empire, and Ecology: Re-Farming the New World Order Scott Hicks; 15. History's Place Markers in Memory: 1954 and 1999 Thadious M. Davis; 16. Along the Border Bill V. Mullen; 17. Tomato Pickers and the Challenges of Today's Classrooms Judith Scott Girgus; 18. Langston Hughes on the Historically White Campus Joanne M. Braxton Art and Activism; 19. Where the Language Discovers Itself Carolyn Forche; 20. Deep Water, No Life Rafts George Saunders; 21. Not Yet Global Citizens Laurie Garret; 22. The Anti-Tribalist Identity-Based Movement for Pluralist Democracy Tony Kushner Another World is Possible; 23. Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement Michael Denning; 24. Ivory Towers, Velvet Gloves Daniel Lang-Levitsky; 25. The Status of Intellectual Authority and the Promise of Democracy Silvio Torres-Saillant; 26. Teaching After the Battle in Seattle: This is What Plutocracy Looks Like George Lipsitz Notes on Contributors.
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John Wiley & Sons A Hundred Acres of America The Geography of
Book SynopsisMichael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities. Trade Review"Michael Hoberman has opened up freshly the pathway in Jewish American writings about the sense of place, how Jewish life in America has come to be and feel at home." -- Jules Chametzky * professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; founder and editor of The Massachusetts Review *"At once critically imaginative and rigorously methodological, A Hundred Acres of America is a genuinely exciting, pathbreaking work of breathtaking historical, geographical, and cultural scope." -- Ranen Omer-Sherman * JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville *"Hoberman brilliantly revises notions of how quintessentially American landscapes shaped American Jewish writing. Elegantly written and cogently argued, this study unsettles the stories we think we know about Jewish immigration and territorial belonging in America." -- Rachel Rubinstein * author of Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination *"A Hundred Acres is a worthy and lucid genealogy of the under-explored Jewish American geographical imagination, presented convincingly as an engagement with as well as departure from certain forms of dominant U.S. spatiality. Hoberman's nimble treatment of key texts captures the Jewish stamp on iconic American places, from 'the frontier' to the city and the 'suburban pastoral' as well as the Americanization of Jewish spaces elsewhere and, importantly, contributes to a shift in Jewish American literary scholarship away from the classic topics of immigration and assimilation toward a multidimensional criticism." -- Dalia Kandiyoti * author of Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures *"The Jewish Preview of Books—December 2018" by Rachel Scheinerman * The Jewish Review of Books *"The book discusses a variety of places important to Americans, including the evolving West of the 19th century, the small towns of the Midwest and 20th-century suburbia. It ends with a landscape that has been significant to the Jewish people for thousands of years: Israel [and] suggests that the works it examines ask questions that aren’t easy to answer — but then asking hard questions is a sign of good literature." * Greenfield Reporter *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Hoberman Reads from Book," mention in The Shelburne Falls and West County Independent * The Shelburne Falls/West County Independent *"June 8-9, 2019: Jewish American Journeys: Michael Hoberman’s Books" http://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2019/06/june-8-9-2019-jewish-american-journeys.html * American Studies Blog *"Hoberman’s study...challenges us to reconsider what the canon of our literature ought to be in a series of original readings of both obscure and major figures whose vision of landscape — above all sites of memory and myth — shaped their vision of America in rich and striking ways." * Jewish Book Council *"Carefully chosen, sensitively read, historically contextualized, and situated within the broader currents of American literature....An apt reminder that Jews’ engagement with place has always been fraught and that the places that we take for granted are always in the midst of being imagined and invented, a process that is almost never innocent." * Marginalia *"Hoberman engages effectively with many important voices in the study of Jewish American literature today. [A] stimulating study that significantly refigures Jewish American literature." * American Studies in Scandinavia *"The richness of Hoberman’s work is partly a feature of its extensive chronology, which includes 150 years of literary history, and partly due to his careful comparisons that are geographically, literarily, religiously and culturally diverse and bring together an uncommon range of places, authors, texts, and histories. Hoberman offers a fresh perspective on a body of literature." * MELUS *"Short, smart, and pithy." * Shofar *"Jews Out West 18th-century Jewish American writers described America’s vastness in lyrical—and liturgical—terms" by Michael Hoberman * Tablet Magazine *""Heterogeneous, well-researched, and well-written." * American Jewish History *"American Pastorals" by Michael Hoberman * Tablet Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction. “A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us”: Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place—1-13 Chapter One. “In this vestibule of God’s holy temple”: the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862—14-55 Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910—56-98 Chapter Three. “A rare good fortune to anyone”: Joseph Leiser’s and Edna Ferber’s reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939—99-144 Chapter Four. “The longed for pastoral”: images of exurban exile in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls (1998)—145-186 Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the “topological turn” in Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002)—187-227 Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the “Wild West Bank” frontier: Jon Papernick’s The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller’s Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)—228-266 Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places—267-276 Acknowledgements Notes Index
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Ohio State University Press The Voices of Toni Morrison
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Ohio State University Press How Comics Travel
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Ohio State University Press How Comics Travel
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University of Arizona Press Octavio Paz A Meditation
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University of Arizona Press CARLOS MONSIVÁIS
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University of Arizona Press One Island Many Voices Conversations with
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University of Minnesota Press Deleuze And Guattari
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection offer an approach to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. With emphasis on Guattari, both in conjunction with Deleuze and independently, it features an essay by Deleuze and includes a bibliography of Guattari's and Deleuze's publications.
£999.99
University of Minnesota Press So Famous and So Gay
Book SynopsisHow and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted homosexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities?Trade Review"Balancing biographical accounts with highly salient readings of a number of their works, So Famous and So Gay offers smart, surprising insights into the ways in which Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein achieved cultural prominence in spite of the homophobia that kept other openly gay writers of the period out of mainstream literary culture. A daring, suggestive, and intensely interesting book."—Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago"In So Famous and So Gay, Jeff Solomon amasses a treasure trove archive—literature, reviews, biographies, photographs, interviews—from which he examines the gayness, strangeness, and celebrity that combusted to create the queer precocity of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. At once critically expansive and insightful, this book is also a good story. Like Stein and Capote, Solomon is an engaging stylist in his own right. Read to learn, read to enjoy (imagine that!)."—Ken Corbett, author of A Murder Over a Girl"Every bit as ‘fabulous’ as the subtitle promises, So Famous and So Gay focuses on two writers—Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein—whose strategies for politicizing questions of sexual identity included the manufacture of public personae as queerly flamboyant ‘geniuses’ and the exploitation of their author photos. Brilliantly exposing of the commodification of authorial identity, Solomon also offers a welcome corrective to strands of queer theory that neglect the specificities of same-sex desire."—Joseph Allen Boone, University of Southern California"Jeff Solomon’s So Famous and So Gay effectively reinvigorates the single author genre by stretching its scope and preconceived boundaries. Solomon’s magisterial command of twentieth century American literary culture and his provocative use of author photos make this particular two-author study an engaging work of scholarship."—James Penner, author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture"This book is about gayness overlooked and gay lives lovingly, materially recovered."—The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide"A very ambitious and innovative work in the field of queer studies."—Leonardo "Focusing on the nexus of sexuality, celebrity, and text, Solomon positions Capote and Stein as ‘comprehensive test cases’ for the interaction between homosexuality and US literature in the first half of the twentieth century." —American LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: Beneath the MaskIntroduction: Stein and Capote in TheoryPart I1. Young, Effeminate, and Strange: The Debut of Truman Capote2. Capote, Forster, and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Mid-CenturyPart II3. Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen: Notes on a Mistaken Embrace4. Gertrude Stein in Life and TIME: A Respectable Commodity5. Three Lesbian Lives: A Map of Same-Sex PassionCoda: Janet Malcolm and Woody Allen Adrift in the PastAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Songs of Degrees Essays on Contemporary Poetry
Book SynopsisA collection of 19 essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989. They are written from the perspective of an active poet for other poets. Taggart also describes his own composition process and the thinking behind it.
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The University of Alabama Press Apocalypse and After Modern Strategy and
Book SynopsisExamines the development of modernism into postmodernism as it occurs in the works of three major poets, and attends closely to the social and political dimensions of that development as embodied in these writers' distinctive poetics.
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The University of Alabama Press Being a Boy Again Autobiography and the American
Book SynopsisThe recipient of the 1993 Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature, this book identifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I - the American boy book. It distinguishes the boy book tradition from the didactic story for boys and the developmental autobiography.
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The University of Alabama Press Defining Jamaican Fiction Marronage and the
Book SynopsisMaroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature.
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The University of Alabama Press Dream Revisionaries Gender and Genre in Womens
Book SynopsisCharts the evolution of women's Utopian writings in Britain and the United States between 1869 and 1920. The period saw the emergence of a new kind of Utopian text, one that redefined women's roles in society and questioned the foundations of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The University of Alabama Press The Face in the Mirror Hemingways Writers
Book SynopsisThis text develops a largely overlooked theme in Hemingway's writing - his depiction of writers and the special problems they face, professionally and personally. It explores his concern with writers and writing from the 1920s through the early 1960s.
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The University of Alabama Press The World in Which We Occur John Dewey Pragmatist
Book SynopsisAmerican philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be continuous with the natural world. This book insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. It probes the work of a number of major American writers through the lens of Dewey's philosophy.Trade ReviewNeil Browne has produced an illuminating study of John Dewey's philosophy that provides the first sophisticated theoretical grounding for the field of ecocriticism.... A particular strength is its emphasis upon aspects of Dewey's work which anticipate intellectual developments at the end of the 20th century. These include Dewey's philosophical embrace of Darwinian thought and evolutionary biology; his rejection of the dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture, human and non-human that have dominated Western philosophy; and Dewey's insistence upon the contingency and situatedness of human knowledge of the dynamic natural world. - Louise Westling, author of The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction
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University of Alabama Press Beleagured Poets and Leftist Critics Stevens
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The University of Alabama Press Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric
Book SynopsisGertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric, Sharon J. Kirsch broadens our understanding of Stein's influence to include her impact on the field of rhetoric. For humanities scholars as well as popular audiences, the relationship between rhetoric and literature remains vexed, in part due to rhetoric's contemporary affiliation with composition, which makes it separate from, if not subordinate to, the study of literature. Gertrude Stein recognized no such separation, and this disciplinary policing of the study of English has diminished our understanding of her work, Kirsch argues. Stein's career unfolded at the crossroads of literary composition and rhetorical theory, a site where she alternately challenged, satirized, and reinvented the five classical canons of rhetoric - invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery - even as she invented new trajectories of literary experimentation. Kirsch follo
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The University of Alabama Press Thomas Wolfe Remembered
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of reminiscences captures the private life of a great American writer. This is a rich, multifaceted portrait painted by those who knew Thomas Wolfe (casually or intimately), loved him (or didn't), and saw, heard, and experienced the literary (and literal) giant.Trade ReviewThomas Wolfe Remembered is lively and informative, providing many insights for understanding Wolfe’s rich and complex art and life. It’s a very welcome and important addition to Wolfe scholarship and will no doubt greatly appeal to both Wolfe scholars and general readers."" - Robert Brinkmeyer, author of The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950 and Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West
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The University of Alabama Press Syncopations The Stress of Innovation in
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the sustaining vitality behind contemporary American poetry from 1975 to the 2003, these 12 essays examine both exemplary innovators and the social context in which innovation is resisted, acclaimed, or taken for granted.
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University of Alabama Press A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary
Book SynopsisA collection of case studies examining specific incidents of silence and the impasses it creates in the poetic and academic landscape. It looks at the issue of professionalism, in both poetic practice and the academy, which has become the caretaker of much of modern and contemporary poetry and their competing values.Trade ReviewThis book is tantalizing, informed, and insightful; written with appealing geniality (and at times an equally appealing rancor). - Jed Rasula, author of Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Zhivagos Secret Journey From Typescript to Book
Book SynopsisPaolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm. In this book Mancosu extends his detective work by reconstructing the network of contacts that helped Pasternak smuggle the typescripts of Doctor Zhivago outside the Soviet Union and following the vicissitudes of the typescripts when they arrived in the West.
£25.20
Ohio University Press Raising the Dust
Book SynopsisRaising the Dust identifies a heretofore-overlooked literary phenomenon that author Beth Sutton-Ramspeck calls literary housekeeping. The three writers she examines rejected turn-of-the-century aestheticism and modernism in favor of a literature that is practical, even ostensibly mundane, designed to set the human household in order.TTrade Review“Raising the Dust is a scrupulously careful and deeply useful book. Sutton-Ramspeck daringly brings together disparate fields: American and British literature, progressive and conservative authors, domestic science and aesthetic paeans, cultural history and fiction. This interdisciplinary work, impressive in its own right, produces some quite exciting juxtapositions.”
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University of Missouri Press Looking Homeward
Book SynopsisOffers a set of photographs which are intended to enhance the reader's knowledge of the largely autobiographical work of Thomas Wolfe. The photographs are of Wolfe's family and close associates (his strong-willed father and Aline Bernstein, the older woman he loved), his childhood and so on.
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University of Missouri Press Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 13 Big Sea
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the autobiography of Langston Hughes, covering the years up to 1931. Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions to New York City and Harlem.
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University of Missouri Press Manuel Zapata Olivella and the Darkening of Latin
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the fictional work of one of Latin America's most prolific, yet overlooked, writers. Born in Colombia to parents of mixed ancestry, Zapata Olivella uses his novels to explore the plight of the downtrodden in his nation and by extension the experience of blacks in other parts of the Americas.Trade ReviewTillis's book represents an important continuation to the very vital scholarship of critics who have promoted and substantiated the perennial place of Zapata Olivella in Colombian, Latin American, and world letters. - James J. Davis
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University of Missouri Press Sucking Salt Caribbean Women Writers Migration
Book SynopsisFor Caribbean women, the image of sucking salt has long signified how they have endured hardship and found ways to transcend it. This study examines the fiction and poetry of both emigrant and island women to explore strategies they have developed for overcoming the oppression of racism, sexism, and economic deprivation in their lives and work.Trade ReviewGadsby's work is the most innovative contemporary analysis of an important theme of African Diaspora literary studies - migration and the transcendence over difficulty. - Carole Boyce Davies, author of Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject
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University of Missouri Press Flannery OConnor Walker Percy and the Aesthetic
Book SynopsisBy disclosing how Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy made aesthetic choices based on their Catholicism and their belief that fiction by its very nature is revelatory, the author demonstrates that their work cannot be seen as merely a continuation of the historical aesthetic that dominated southern literature for so long.
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University of Missouri Press A Fatherless Child
Book SynopsisThe impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. This book examines the impact of fatherlessness on racial and gender identity formation as seen in black men's autobiographies and in other constructions of black fatherhood in fiction.
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University of Missouri Press Literary Alchemist
Book SynopsisEvan S. Connell emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction. This first portrait and appraisal of an under-recognized American writer reveals a tender and multidimensional representation of a 20th-century literary master worthy of broader attention.
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University of Missouri Press Humanistic Letters
Book SynopsisIrving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. This volume provides for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, which gets to the heart of their intellectual project.Trade Review“The New Humanism, an early 20th century intellectual movement led by Irving Babbit, ‘the Buddha of Harvard,’ and Paul More, ‘the hermit of Princeton,’ has been largely forgotten. But Eric Adler's erudite exegesis of their correspondence demonstrates its timeless relevance given that (in Babbit's words) ‘man is in danger of being deprived of every scrap and vestige of his humanity by this working together of romanticism and science.’”—Walter A. McDougall, University of Pennsylvania, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian“New Humanism was one of the most consequential movements of the last century. At long last we now have the literary record of letters between its two principal figures, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More. Eric Adler’s Humanistic Letters is a much-needed window into two highly creative minds at work enlivening tradition and reinvigorating first principles against the dominant currents of their age, and ours. It’s an American cultural treasure.”— Jeffrey O. Nelson, The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Publisher and Editor-at-Large of The University Bookman“Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More were two of the most profound American thinkers in the twentieth century. They challenged the Zeitgeist and were denied the reputation that they deserved, but an expanding literature testifies to their enduring and now growing influence. Although their letters to each other are numerous, readable, and very illuminating, nobody has published them--until this moment. Eric Adler's edition was worth the wait. It is a model of its kind. It has a lengthy, very informative and insightful introduction, a chronology of the two thinkers, biographies of figures relevant to the correspondence, an elaborate bibliography, and very helpful notes to the letters. Scholars and others will treasure this meticulously wrought and intellectually stimulating volume.”—Claes G. Ryn, author of Will, Imagination and Reason: Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality
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Carcanet Press Ltd Letters to Ted
Book SynopsisA collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.Trade Review'An exquisite miniaturist... Though English by birth, Mr Weissbort has spent a large part of his life in America, and sounds quintessentially American in his writing'The Economist
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University of Exeter Press Short French Fiction Essays on the Short Story in
Book SynopsisThis volume provides new insights into some of the best examples of this form of writing in the twentieth century and also includes a chapter which explores ways in which the genre is evolving as the century draws to a close.Trade Review “This volume is to be recommended both for the new readings of a number of key texts and for the highly pertinent account it provides of the evolving aesthetics of short fiction in France.” (Modern Language Review, Vol. 95, No. 3, 2000) Table of ContentsContents: Jean-Paul Sartre - "L'Enfance d'un chef", William Bell; Marcel Ayme - "La Carte", Christopher Lloyd; Albert Camus - "La Pierre qui pousse", David Walker; Margaret Yourcenar - "La Lait de la mort", Sally Wallis; Simone de Beauvoir - "La Femme rompue", Ray Davison; Michel Tournier - "Les Suaires de Veronique", Rachel Edwards; Marguerite Duras - "La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais", James Williams; contemporary short French fiction - from the "nouvelle" to the "nouvellistique", Johnnie Gratton.
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