Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Syracuse University Press Modernity Community and Place in Brian Friels
Book SynopsisShows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
£22.46
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Sayyid Qutb An Intellectual Biography
Book SynopsisNo Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb abandoned literature in the 1950s in favour of Islamism. This book offers a fresh perspective on Qutb's life that examines his Islamist commitment as a continuation of his literary project.
£26.06
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Sayyid Qutb
Book SynopsisNo Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb abandoned literature in the 1950s in favour of Islamism. This book offers a fresh perspective on Qutb's life that examines his Islamist commitment as a continuation of his literary project.
£56.95
Postwar Literature
Book SynopsisThis volume covers the the wide-ranging historial, social and cultural developments since the end of World War II. The works of George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Tom Stoppard, Salman Rushdie and others are examined for their depiction of this period.
£25.46
Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats Critical Companion Hardcover
Book SynopsisThe Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. This title covers Yeats' important poems, as well as his volumes of poetry, and his plays and important drama-related topics, including Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
£60.00
Critical Companion to Robert Frost A Literary
Book SynopsisKnown for his favorite themes of New England and nature, Robert Frost may well be the most famous American poet of the 20th century. This is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of this great American poet. It combines critical analysis with information on Frost's life, providing a one-stop resource for students.
£60.00
Flannery OConnor
Book SynopsisExamines Flannery O'Connor's life and works, and includes critical analyses of some of the themes in her writing, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.
£60.00
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance
Book SynopsisThe Harlem Renaissance, a broad artistic movement of the 1920s and early '30s was one of the most productive eras in American literary history. This title provides coverage and insight into the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. It has more than 800 entries that explain how the writer, work, or idea helped shape American literature.
£19.76
University of Arizona Press CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES AND THE ORAL TRADITION
£24.71
University of Minnesota Press Urban Triage
Book SynopsisChallenging both the uncritical celebration of abstract multiculturalism and its simpleminded vilification, Lee roots Urban Triage in specific instances of multiracial contact and deeply informed readings of works that have been canonized within ethnic studies and of those that either remain misunderstood or were.Table of ContentsAlsfjaslfjlasjflasjflskafjlsjflsjlsjflsjflsdjflsdjLsjflsdjfsdlfjSafsajflsdafjlksdflasdflksjf sdfslfjksdfjk
£19.94
University of Minnesota Press The Wolf Mans Magic Word
Book SynopsisAn innovative literary analysis of Freud's "Wolf Man."Trade Review"To this day they call him the Wolf-Man. But did anyone really know why? You will know it. What takes place here - I am talking about an event and a monument - is analogous to an archeological dig. A monumental text is exposed to an interpretation whose daring and effectiveness vie with each other."-Jacques Derrida"This book succeeds because of its very specific lexical interpretations coupled with a demonstration of how a genuine link between psychoanalysis and literary analysis can be established."-Paul de Man
£17.99
University of Minnesota Press Everybodys Family Romance Reading Incest in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface: Nobody's Home Introduction: Everybody's Family Romance 1. Laying down the Law: The Modernization of American Incest 2. Legal Fantasies: Populist Trauma and the Theater of Memory 3. Seduction by Literature: Sexual Property and Testimonial Possession 4. Surviving the Family Romance? Realism and the Labor of Incest 5. Consensual Relations: The Scattered Generations of Kinship Conclusion: Beyond the Incest Taboo Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
The University of Alabama Press The Objectivist Nexus Essays in Cultural Poetics Modern Contemporary Poetics
Book SynopsisThis volume presents cultural readings of the objectivist poets, a group characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological view. The essays analyze and evaluate objectivist politics, and focus on the ethical, spiritual, and religious issues raised by objectivist affiliations with Judaism.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Border Crossings Irish Women Writers and National
Book SynopsisRanging from consideration of early writers such as Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson to recent feminist pamphlet wars, this text explores the connections between personal and national identities, politics and literary style, and gender and artistic vocation.
£999.99
The University of Alabama Press Digital Poetics The Making of Epoetries Modern Contemporary Poetics
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£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Southern Women Playwrights New Essays in Literary
Book SynopsisThis collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together criticism on some important playwrights of the 20th century, including Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman, as well as less studied writers such as Naomi Wallace.Trade ReviewOn issues of originality and significance, I am not aware that this collection has a rival in the market-place. - Milly Barranger, author of Southern Playwrights: A Perspective on Women Writers
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Finding the Weight of Things
Book SynopsisOffers the first full-length study of Larry Eigner's poetry, covering his entire career from the beginning of his mature work in the 1950s to his last poems of the 1990s. George Hart charts where Eigner's two central interests intersect, and how their interaction fueled his work as a poet-critic.Trade Review“George Hart’s Finding the Weight of Things stresses the poet Larry Eigner’s longstanding interest in ecology and environmental politics, not only as subject matter for his poems but as coextensive with his particular embodiment. Not only did Eigner live as a differently abled person, he wrote from within an awareness of a threatened and vulnerable globe. Hart’s masterful application of ecocriticism and disability theory makes this a vital and important contribution to Eigner’s work, specifically, and postwar poetics generally.”—Michael Davidson, author of Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press The Unwritten War American Writers and the Civil
Book SynopsisExamines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order.
£33.11
University of Alabama Press The Remembered Gate Memoirs by Alabama Writers Deep South Books
Book SynopsisThis collection of reflective essays - all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness - showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama, recalling how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers.
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press A Question of Character Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction 18921912 Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Trade Review[The] discussions of Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, and Johnson... lucidly illustrate the ways that four of our major writers struggled to create literary forms enabling them not only to reflect but also to intervene in contemporary racial debates, and in the process to begin shifting the generic boundaries of American literature. - American Literary Realism ""[A Question of Character] fills in significant gaps in the critical discourse about genre, race, and science at the turn of the century.... [The] introduction and first chapter are extremely useful for explicating how racial discourse in realism and sentimentalism helps determine genre.... [This book] should be required reading for scholars interested in early theories about scientific racism."" - Choice ""Richly informed and theoretically astute."" - American Quarterly
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press John Steinbeck Goes to War The Moon is Down as Propaganda Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Trade ReviewA fascinating study of the publication history and public reception of a propaganda work by a major American author. Coers has given us a testimonial to the written word and to the depth of Steinbeck's imaginative understanding of the human condition. To read this book, with its stories of translators, printers, and booksellers trying to stay one step ahead of the Gestapo, is to be reminded of the importance of ideas. - American Literature ""The freshest and most thorough study of the effects of Steinbeck's mid-career work on foreign audiences. This indexed and annotated text, with a useful bibliography, is a surprising contribution to the reexamination of Steinbeck. Recommended."" - Choice ""Coers' careful research, logical organization, and clear presentation suit his purpose well. His study tells a fascinating story filled with colorful and intriguing details, which add to the reader's knowledge of Steinbeck and the Nazi occupation in Europe."" - Modern Fiction Studies
£23.36
University of Alabama Press Paper Empire William Gaddis and the World System
Book SynopsisGaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. This work includes essays which address subjects as diverse as cybernetics, the law, media theory, race and class, music, and the perils and benefits of globalization. It also contains an interview with Gaddis.Trade ReviewPaper Empire fills the gap in the scholarly literature on Gaddis. I know of no other monograph or collection of essays that addresses in such a focused way the contexts, especially the systematic contexts, of Gaddis's writing. - Brian McHale, author of The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press The Point Is to Change It Poetry and Criticism in
Book SynopsisArgues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.Trade ReviewA very fine collection.... McGann's writing will help to re-situate the reading of contemporary experimental writing within a broader context that includes the writing and thinking of poets such as Blake, Byron, and Shelley. - Hank Lazer, author of What Is a Poet? and Days
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Strange Bodies Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Reading Network Fiction
Book SynopsisThe marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called hypertext fiction, literary hypertext, and hyperfiction has surely surrendered any claim to newness in the 21st century. David Ciccoricco establishes the category of network fiction as distinguishable from other forms of hypertext and cybertext: network fictions are narrative texts in digitally networked environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create emergent and recombinant narratives. Though they both pre-date and post-date the World Wide Web, they share with it an aesthetic drive that exploits the networking potential of digital composition and foregrounds notions of narrative recurrence and return. Ciccoricco analyzes innovative developments in network fiction from first-generation writers Michael Joyce (Twilight, a symphony, 1997) and Stuart Moulthrop (Victory Garden, 1991)
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Ecology of Modernism American Environments and
Book SynopsisThe Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an ecological esthetic. Joshua Schuster explains why American modernism was never green. In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, which echo as a paean to pollution: Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! Schuster labels this theme regeneration through pollution and demonstrates how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-products of industrialization hindered mo
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press The Transmutation of Love and AvantGarde Poetics
Book SynopsisOffers a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Jeanne Heuving claims that a key achievement of poetry by Ezra Pound, H.D., Robert Duncan, and others lies significantly in their engagement with the synergistic relations between being in love and writing love.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press William March Annotated Checklist
Book SynopsisProviding an exhaustive compendium of publications by and citations about Alabama-born writer William March, this title traces in meticulous detail the arc of March's writing, the popular and critical reception of his books and novels, and the abundant scholarship and criticism about March and his oeuvre.
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Of Such a NatureÍndole
Book SynopsisJosé Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to win the Pablo Neruda Prize. This is a bilingual edition translated into English by Peter Boyle. In addition, Boyle provides an extensive introduction placing Kozer's work in a critical context.Trade ReviewÍndole hangs together as a collection; each poem is an exploration composed of careful deliberate details. While Kozer’s style and poetic structure are different, his poems in Índole are reminiscent of Neruda’s Odas elementales for their revelation of the miraculous and the epiphanic to be found in the every day."" - Emily A. Maguire, author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography
£15.26
The University of Alabama Press The Stuff of Our Forebears Willa Cathers Southern
Book SynopsisBeginning with an examination of Willa Cather's Virginia childhood and the southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, Joyce McDonald traces the effects of those influences in Cather's novels.Trade ReviewIn associating Cather with the past grandeur and defeat of the South and detecting in her fiction an undertone of historical irony, McDonald successfully places Cather in a larger world than the pioneering American one with which she has been identified."" - John J. Murphy, Brigham Young University""McDonald succeeds in establishing both the importance and the relevance of those formative years before the Nebraska experience that scholars have so emphasized for several decades. . . . The Stuff of Our Forebears is a readable, insightful addition to Cather scholarship."" - Bruce P. Baker II, University of NebraskaTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Cather's Southern Heritage and Pastoral Origins 2. Cather's New World Pastorals 3. The Pangs of Disillusionment: Cather's Antipastoral Subtext 4. For Their Own Good: Cather's Pastoral Histories 5. History and Memory: Cather's Garden of the Chattel Notes Bibliography Index
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Wreading
Book SynopsisA diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar.
£35.06
The University of Alabama Press Eugene ONeill Remembered
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£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones Ecocriticism and
Book SynopsisChronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II - creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise from the muck, not to destroy the world, but to save it. The book asks what happens to these landscapes after the madness and destruction. What monsters and magic surface then?
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Omnicompetent Modernists
Book Synopsis“It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there”, as the poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared. Matthew Hofer examines, through a multilayered literary critique of interwar modernist poetry, what it might mean to get the news, and more, from a poet.Trade Review“Omnicompetent Modernists makes a powerful and nuanced argument about the importance of John Dewey and Walter Lippmann to understanding the political poetry of Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes. The book will become a touchstone for debates about modernism and the role of poetry in the public sphere.”— Joshua Kotin, author of Utopias of One “Drawing on new archival research, Matthew Hofer leverages Dewey’s insights into aesthetics and society for a series of highly original, incisive close analyses of formal strategies chosen by three modernist poets determined to give their poems political impact. This is a valuable work of literary history with direct relevance to our own cultural moment.”— Peter Middleton, author of Expanding Authorship: Transformation in American Poetry since 1950 “Omnicompetent Modernists seeks to change how we speak about the relationship between poetry and poetics. Hofer’s choice to consider Langston Hughes, Mina Loy, and Ezra Pound in the light of Dewey’s democratic philosophy is an inspired one. An argument that encompasses such disparate poetry has the prospect of saying a lot—this book delivers.”— Stephen Fredman, author of American Poetry as Transactional Art
£30.56
UNIV OF ALABAMA PR Playing House in the American West
Book SynopsisExamining an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life.Trade Review“Playing House in the American West is an impressive book. Its chronological scope is large, as is its range of writers and genres. It articulately and imaginatively shows the wide variety of ways women writers and women’s writings have been able to move past what might have been the stifl ing drudgery of housework into affirming, creative, agency- producing acts of playing house.”—Western American Literature “Cathryn Halverson’s major contribution to American literary studies in Playing House in the American West is to map an alternative trajectory in women’s writing about the West, and this alternative is all the more appealing because it largely ignores, and acknowledges its displacement of, the confining and oversimplifying narratives that reduce much of western American literature to the political unconscious of American imperialism…. The strength of Halverson’s book is in its acknowledgment of these moments when self- fashioning and “playing house” are undone by imperial power and social hierarchies, all the while focusing on how, despite these “grim realities,” women’s writing about the West so frequently strives to offer “more palatable versions of their lives” (175).”—Legacy“Through a series of incisive literary readings, Cathryn Halverson reconfigures the U.S. West as a space of liberating domesticity--the more unorthodox, the better. Exploring women life writers who range across race, class, sexuality, period, and genre, she excavates compelling conversations and legacies, unsettles assumptions about home-making, and mines unsuspected layers of textual play. The revealed relationship between women and the West just became that much richer.”—Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 “Cathryn Halverson’s splendid Playing House in the American West is a rigorous, original, and finally joyous book that shakes loose a century or more of assumptions about western women’s writing and regional domestic space. In opposition to the received notion of the West as a land of vast open spaces and the big outdoors, Halverson reveals women authors who posit the home as the expression of, and perhaps source of, both personal autonomy and regional identity. Thus Halverson herself engages in a compelling form of serious play, arguing that these authors—including Caroline Kirkland, Willa Cather, M.F.K. Fisher, and Marilynne Robinson—actively reimagine not only gender roles and western domesticity but the American West itself. Halverson is intentionally thinking inside the box, and she has written an ambitious book that will prove to be an important and enduring contribution to the study of western American literature and culture.”—Nathaniel Lewis, author of Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship
£26.96
UNIV OF ALABAMA PR Cather Among the Moderns
Book SynopsisWilla Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.Trade ReviewMany scholars—among them Jo Ann Middleton in Willa Cather’s Modernism and Rick Middleton in various writings—have convincingly argued that certain fictions by Willa Cather (1873–1947) exhibit many of the traits usually associated with modernist art of the early 20th century: experimentation with form, disruption of conventional ways of seeing “reality,” and a questioning of traditional morals, values, and societal structures. Stout seeks not only to expand this list to include other Cather works—O Pioneers!, A Lost Lady, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Shadows on the Rock—but also to demonstrate that Cather herself was ‘modern’ (synonymous with 'progressive' and 'liberal') in her actions and attitudes, and thus should be seen as closely akin to her American modernist writer contemporaries. Stout offers a number of persuasive arguments concerning Cather’s modernist literary techniques but does not present sufficient evidence to dispel the prevailing understanding of Cather as a person who (except in the case of exploring alternative roles for women) held rather conventional views for her time, and neither actively engaged in the types of activities nor adhered to the same types of liberal beliefs that most modernist American writers did." - CHOICE"Cather Among the Moderns offers a considerable contribution to Willa Cather studies, demonstrating exemplary scholarship in blending close literary analysis with historical and biographical insights." - Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature "Cather Among the Moderns is a major contribution to the field of Cather scholarship. It will immediately be a touchstone for anyone working on Cather; with its groundbreaking study of the relationships between Cather and a range of other authors and their works, from Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost, it will also serve as a wonderful resource for future studies. Further, it helps us understand literary modernism, and modernism itself, in deeper and more nuanced ways." - Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War and a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation
£26.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press The Violence Within The Violence Without
Book SynopsisWallace Stevens, one of the leading poets of the 20th century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. Here, Brogan traces Steven's evolving poetic practices along three major lines that often intersected.
£999.99
University of Georgia Press Flannery OConnor The Obedient Imagination
Book SynopsisDisturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity.
£37.98
LUP - University of Georgia Press Eugene ONeills Last Plays Separating Art from
Book SynopsisThis study draws on research concerning the lives of Eugene O'Neill, his family and his circle. It corrects and expands the biographical record on him and distinguishes the man and his life from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. Included are his attempted suicide, his tuberculosis, and his relationship with his parents.
£60.06
LUP - University of Georgia Press John Ashbery and You His Later Books
Book SynopsisApproaches John Ashbery's critically neglected poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun ""you"" and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. This book argues the poet has been paying increasingly keen and affectionate attention to his readers.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Campus Sexpot A Memoir
Book SynopsisTakes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel.Trade ReviewCharming and frequently hilarious. - Washington Post Book World ""Not about lust but very much about love, mysterious and miraculous. A riveting book."" - Brian Doyle, author of Leaping
£25.32
LUP - University of Georgia Press Partial Faiths Postsecular Fiction in the Age of
Book SynopsisSpiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's ""Vineland"" and Toni Morrison's ""Paradise"". What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. This work is a study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms.
£31.38
LUP - University of Georgia Press Occupy Pynchon Politics after Gravitys Rainbow
Book SynopsisExamines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon's representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s shed the paranoia and metaphysical bent of his first three novels and share a great deal in common with the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
£30.51
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.”
£20.99
Ohio University Press Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar
Book SynopsisThough often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland. Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women's efforts to construct gendered and classed ethnicity.Focusing predominantly on work by North American born and immigrant authors that represents the Polish American Catholic tradition, Grazyna J. Kozaczka puts texts in conversation with other American ethnic literatures. She positions ethnic gender construction and performance at an intersection of social class, race, and sex. She explores the marginalization of ethnic female characters in terms of migration studies, theories of whiteness, and the history of feminist dis
£999.99
Duke University Press American Literary Scholarship 1989
Book SynopsisAmerican Literary Scholarship is published in annual volumes covering current critical analysis of American literature in each year since 1963. These bibliographic essays are selective and critical; they describe and evaluate published works, identify trends, and indicate areas ripe for research.Table of ContentsEmerson, Thoreau, and transcendentalism; Hawthorne; Poe; Melville; Whitman and Dickinson; Mark Twain; Henry James; Pound and Eliot; Faulkner; Fitzgerald and Hemingway; literature to 1900; 19th-century literature; fiction - the 1930s to the 1960s; fiction - the 1960s to the present; poetry - 1900 to the 1940s; poetry - the 1940s to the present; drama; black literature; themes, topics, criticism; foreign scholarship; general reference works.
£39.60
Duke University Press Orientalism and Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Orientalism and Modernism clearly sets the record straight by addressing the issue of how Chinese poetry and culture helped precipitate the transition of Pound and Williams toward high modernism. It is a historically focused, meticulously researched, and passionately argued book."—Zhang Longxi, University of California, Riverside"Newcomers won’t find a more readable introduction, and old hands will find much they’d not heard of before. Both Pound and Williams, circa 1920, were immersed in Chinese modes of thought more deeply than anyone has hitherto suspected. An indispensable book."—Hugh Kenner, University of Georgia"Zhaoming Qian offers a strong analysis of the influence of Chinese culture on the early work of Pound and Williams. I particularly admire the ability of the author to integrate discussions of art as well as literature. It is clear that the aesthetic of China which appealed to the Modernists was visual as much as verbal, and this dual emphasis is well-captured."—Reed Way Dasenbrock, New Mexico State University
£22.49
Duke University Press The Real Thing
Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars and students of Latin American studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, and comparative literature, this book includes essays that analyse the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Institutionalization of Transgression: Testimonial Discourse and Beyond (1995) / Georg M. Gugelberger 1 Part I The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (1989) / John Beverley 23 Testimonio and Postmodernism (1991) / George Yudice 42 Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism (1991) / Margaret Randall 58 Testimonio and Survival: Roque Dalton's Miguel Marmol (1991) / Barbara Harlow 70 Spanish American Testimonial Novel: Some Afterthoughts (1994) / Elzbieta Sklodowska 84 Testimonio in Guatemala: Payeras, Rigoberta, and Beyond (1991) / Marc Zimmerman 101 No Secrets (1995) / Doris Sommer 130 Part II What's Wrong with Representation? Testimonio and Democratic Culture (1995) / Santiago Colas 161 On Literary and Cultural Import-Substitution in the Third World: The Case of the Testimonio (1992/93) / Fredric Jameson 172 The Aura of Testimonio (1995) / Alberto Moreiras 192 The Fantasies of Cultural Exchange in Latin American Subaltern Studies (1995) / Gareth Williams 225 Beyond Testimonial Discourse: New Popular Trends in Bolivia (1995) / Javier Sanjines C 254 The Real Thing (1995) / John Beverley 266 Bibliography 287 Index 305 Contributors 315
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