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Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945. Two particular...

In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052010335Author Marc MaufortFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which...

This study is concerned with the function of the mirror metaphor in texts by three modern African-American authors. Wright's photo-text 12 Million Black Voices, Baldwin's early essays, and Ellison's novel Invisible Man go back to the time before the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787079151Author Francesca GollFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 390g

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the...

During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War...

This is a courageous book. In a series of essays, the author takes one the major literary, critical and artistic figures who have shaped the contemporary literature of Canada. What emerges is provocative, at times outrageous, but most of all thoughtful...

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal to the transatlantic literary culture of the nineteenth century. Long appreciated...

As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. ""Heartless Immensity"" tells the story of how...

In this study of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young shows that American women writers have been profoundly influenced by the Civil War and that, in turn, their works have contributed to conceptions of the war and its aftermath. Offering reassessments...

Forms of Empire shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an 'age of equipoise,' but the period between 1837 and 1901 included more...

Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty 'Jezebels', ""Cotton's Queer Relations"" exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation...

All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape, renewal, and reinvention. Hit the Road, Jack is an interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of the road as reality and metaphor. Engaging with...

Of all developments surrounding hypermedia, none has been as hotly or frequently debated as the conjunction of fiction and digital technology. J. Yellowlees Douglas considers the implications of this union. She looks at the new light that interactive...

Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-colour fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and...

In this stimulating and innovative synthesis of New York's artistic and literary worlds, Lytle Shaw uses the social and philosophical problems involved in "reading" a coterie to propose a new language for understanding the poet, art critic, and...

American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be continuous with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. Dewey's conception of...

William Burroughs is both an object of widespread cultural fascination and one of America's great writers. In this study, Oliver Harris elucidates the complex play of secrecy and revelation that defines the allure of fascination. Unraveling the...

Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit...

Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures. In the 1920s and '30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new...

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter. While scholars have long assumed that this visual excess was literal, linked to the United States-utilization of sophisticated modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982164539Author Neil PasrichaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut's works from ""Player...

The American critic William V. Spanos, a pioneer of postmodern theory and co-founder of one of its principal organs, the journal boundary 2, is, in the words of A William V. Spanos Reader coeditor Daniel T. O'Hara, everything that current post-modern...

Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional...

More than any other single characteristic, aridity defines the American West. Water scarcity and its biologically critical function have also molded the regional literature of the region. Using novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Edward Abbey, John Steinbeck...

Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of life knowledge. Echoing the resurgence of short-story scholarship in recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621905929Author Joseph R. MillichapFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press

This is a wide-ranging critical assessment of the cultural impact of America's longest war.The lingering aftereffects of the Vietnam War resonate to this day throughout American society: in foreign policy, in attitudes about the military and war...

From authors of bodice rippers and gallant figures to hometown poetry, hearty men, and tales of American originals, the history of literature in Michigan is deep and rich. The Wolverine State has been the birthplace, home, and inspiration to a tremendous...

An essential collection of criticism on the leading nature writers of today.Book InformationISBN 9780472065370Author John CooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Traces a crucial paradox in historical and contemporary notions of citizenship: in a liberal democratic culture that imagines its citizens as self-reliant, autonomous, and inviolable, the truth is that claims for citizenship—particularly for marginalized...

This 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...

Although a handful of books and articles have been written about American literary minimalism during the last forty years, the mode remains misunderstood. When in a 2011 interview in The Paris Review author Anne Beattie was asked how she felt about being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881468250Author Marshall Bruce GentryFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer.Book InformationISBN 9780817321253Author Anita DuneerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205973Author Sandra M GustafsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame...

A belief in progress is a fundamental ethos in American history and culture. ""The Assault on Progress"" probes American literary works that challenge the prevailing notion of technology as a manifestation of progress. J. Adam Johns...