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Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by...

Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805029642Author Dave BorryFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805029642Author Dave BorryFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 310g

Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern...

In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis-and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, bingeing, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come...

Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a...

With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Plath's original typescript for Ariel and compares it to the version that was published by her estranged husband, Ted Hughes.About the AuthorLynda K. Bundtzen is Herbert H. Lehman Professor...

The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science fiction and suspense thrillers in American literature. Two of Finney's novels, ""The Body Snatchers"" and ""Good Neighbor Sam"", became the basis of...

The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems,...

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One of the most widely read writers in the high school curriculum, F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of the great American novel, The Great Gatsby. While other biographies provide extensive information about Fitzgerald's life and achievements, this...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884481928Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books

Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Walter...

Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450172Author Stephen CraneFormat HardbackPage Count 1379Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon's V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150 of them), and wide range of often obscure references. J. Kerry Grant's Companion to "V." takes...

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American...

The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976146537Author Greg CarlisleFormat PaperbackImprint Sideshow Media GroupPublisher Sideshow Media GroupWeight(grams) 680g

Never before published, White Rose and the Red is the fictional biography of Elizabeth Siddall, wife of English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This extraordinary novel explores the charged interpersonal relationships between and among Siddall,...

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions 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 Press

Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the...

Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the...

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450233Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 1442Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm)...

James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad,...

A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including...

How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making...

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...

While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914783596Author Carolyn BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Charles Press Pubs(PA)Publisher Charles Press Pubs(PA)Weight(grams) 499g

Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977173457Author Benjamin, SzumskyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm)...

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...

By considering the screenplay as a literary object worthy of critical inquiry, this volume breaks new ground in film studies.Though the history of the screenplay is as long and rich as the history of film itself, critics and scholars have neglected it as...

In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension...

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media...