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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600960031Author Brigham YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Temple Hill BooksPublisher Temple Hill BooksWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912155958Author Christina RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Bell & Mackenzie PublishingPublisher Bell & Mackenzie Publishing

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...

"Marcus shows the ways in which Black activists and writers, in particular, have continued to express their political desires. In doing so, she draws our attention to the centrality of disappointment in American political life."-Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006115Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 146mm * 21mm

Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain...

For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982150341Author Walter MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Washington Square PressPublisher Washington Square PressWeight(grams)...

This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962809Author Art YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119103646Author Henry HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher Wiley-BlackwellWeight(grams) 152g

A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s. Book InformationISBN 9780582745025Author Peter HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787072688Author Simon BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 410g

Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic...

One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred...

From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant The Glass Menagerie, until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of The Two-Character Play, Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain...

Schlegel's notebooks, like those of Coleridge, are complementary to his published writings; they are repositories in which can be traced the growth and continued revision of his ideas. One hundred survived his death, more than half of which have been...

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing,...

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782189329Author Pam HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Currach PressPublisher Columba BooksWeight(grams) 134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976146537Author Greg CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Sideshow Media GroupPublisher Sideshow Media GroupWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Jack Kerouac is among the most important and influential writers to emerge from mid-twentieth century America. Founder of the Beat Generation literary movement, Kerouac's most famous novel, On the Road, was known as the bible of this generation, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807077191Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts-including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth-to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional...

The poet has said of himself and his work: "I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters--Stein, Williams, Pound; back of that by the generations of poets that have...

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell's life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives. Individual chapters address his relation to the South,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913662820Author Richard SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Rowanvale BooksPublisher Rowanvale BooksWeight(grams) 280g

In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers...

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. Jeffers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224555Author Albert RollsFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825356552Author Eva-Sabine ZeheleinFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255025Author Stephanie FettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772060164Author Michael NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893157156Author A C SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bridger House Publishers IncPublisher Bridger House Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434402882Author Michael HemmingsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Exploring how the figure of the "wild child" in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity In the eighteenth century, Western philosophy positioned the figure of "the child" at...

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed long walks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825351960Author Michaela KeckFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 4450g

The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she follows him down into the hold and finds him leaning over...