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For Oe Kenzaburo, a Japanese novelist who won the 1994 Noble prize in literature, William Faulkner is not so much a father of Yoknapatawpha as he is a critic of the masculine possessiveness attributed to the creation of the imaginary county. Faulkner and...

For over 200 years, the American Western novel has chronicled much of the American experience, with exemplaries found in the works of James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte, Andy Adams, Jack Schaefer and Larry McMurtry. Alongside the roguish figure of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476690643Author Gary ScharnhorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 178g

One of America's most influential women writers, Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell and is seldom featured in literary criticism. This volume reassesses Sexton and her poetry for the first...

In the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas, the writings of Flannery O'Connor concern for place can best be seen in the immediacies of things and persons. It is in relation to St. Thomas' teaching, then, that O'Connor becomes comfortable in her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631573648Author Maike KolbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 290g

Tracing the influence of Faulkner’s screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women William Faulkner’s time as a Hollywood screenwriter has often been dismissed as little more than an intriguing interlude in the career of one of America’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506479163Author James Henry HarrisFormat PaperbackImprint Fortress PressPublisher Fortress PressWeight(grams) 140g

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition is a study of the embedded texts that function as the formal and thematic backbone of Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel. Robert M. Nelson identifies the Keresan and Navajo ethnographic pretexts...

During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing of the day reflected this popularity. However, despite an increased contemporary interest in ecocriticism and cultural entomology, scholars have largely...

Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a "horror" writer, Poe was also a philosophical aesthete, a satirist, a...

Occurring alongside the Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, and other identity movements of the 1960s, the Vietnam War was part of an era that rescripted gender and other social identity roles for many, if not most, Americans. This book examines...

Hawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in...

Born into poverty with an abusive home life, Dean Koontz found a respite in books. As he began a writing career in the late 1960s, Koontz began injecting the dark experiences of his own life into his literature, and autobiography became a central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820486918Author William Mark PoteetFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 330g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631371510Author Karsten FitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 320g

Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac McCarthy to the striking absence of interior thought in his seemingly amoral characters. In No More Heroes, however, Lydia Cooper reveals that though...

Since the seventeenth century, ethnicity has been the central issue in the American search for a national identity. The articulation of this issue can clearly be seen in the representation of non-white others in the literature of the nineteenth century,...

The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All The Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820481661Author John Lawrence DarrettaFormat HardbackPage Count 147Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g

In The Other Henry James, John Carlos Rowe offers a new vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can now be read as rich with homoerotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884419805Author Fred GardapheFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 136g

This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott (increasing the number of indexed reviews almost tenfold) but also insight into the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the...

For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts-above all, "objectivity"-seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature...

Explorers of the American frontier found more than just simple geographical locations, and their writings chronicle a whole cultural perspective on the West. The developing patterns of the American discovery narrative are the focus of "Narrating...

"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua),...

In The Silence of Bartleby, Dan McCall proposes a new reading of Herman Melville's classic short tale "Bartleby, The Scrivener." McCall discuss in detail how "Bartleby has been read in the last half-century by practitioners of widely used critical...

Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In Reclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon...

Here is that rare work that in research and interpretation is original almost from beginning to end. For the first time we discover that slave music and dance are used by Melville in Moby-Dick in the creation of some of his most tragic and avant-garde...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820476346Author Elisabeth Mermann-JozwiakFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666909098Author Yoshinobu HakutaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out.  There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540412Author Luigi FontanellaFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 404g

Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the most commercially successful writer of gay novels in the twentieth century. This book shows how Merrick’s novels were largely based on his own life and time as...

In Robert Frost's Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply, William F. Zak provides groundbreaking analysis to well over one hundred of Frost's lyrics, considering each poem as integral to the poet's singular "constellation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541259Author Steven J BelluscioFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 236g

Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541167Author Sabrina VellucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541679Author Sian GibbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540344Author Sheryl Lynn PostmanFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 249g