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This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term 'Beat Zen', and who influenced the counterculture which...

Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in...

In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway's work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two opening chapters, which deal with the young Hemingway's career in Paris, and has incorporated material uncovered after the publication...

Lincoln's Selected Writings includes letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses and more, accompanied by annotations, a preface, a note on the texts and a list of abbreviations. The writings are followed by contemporary...

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the...

The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the best-and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312597061Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534936Author Claudia Roth PierpontFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534936Author Claudia Roth PierpontFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878058594Author Martin BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of MississippiWeight(grams)...

A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the...

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy's fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an...

This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field provide re-examinations of crucial trends in the decade: the rise of the proletarian novel; the intersection of...

Baker surveys this territory in this rich treasury and stakes it out in a dozen sections. Roaming through them, the reader will find P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken, James Thurber, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.Book InformationISBN 9780393035926Author...

Published in 1884, Huckleberry Finn has become one of the msot widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than any other work,...

Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooksthe ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and...

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant...

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel of such profound power that it has affected the lives of readers and left and indelible mark on American culture. This rich collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the essence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977948Author Maud CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm *...

2021 Top Ten Finalist for the Locus Awards in Nonfiction Joshua Smith's chapter "Uncle Tom's Cabin Showdown" won the 2021 Don D. Walker Prize from the Western Literature AssociationWeird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an...

Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained - until recently - closely focused on critical analyses of nature writing and literature of wilderness. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210565Author Clenora Hudson-WeemsFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 244g

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a...

Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period...

Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was...

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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and...

American Literature in Context after 1929 American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the Great...

American Literature in Context after 1929 American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the Great...

A collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and new, creative directions.About the AuthorPeter Schjeldahl is art critic...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Ernest Hemingway's best-known novel. Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston. A rich selection of background and contextual materials carefully chosen to enhance the reader's...

First published in 1937, Of Mice and Men has been a staple of American literature ever since. Divided by decade, The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men provides an overview of criticism over the 70 years the book has been in print...

This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'metafiction', as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475935127Author Robert DemottFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

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

"Augustine's edition of The Mystery is a model of editorial excellence and an immense contribution to H.D. scholarship, crucial to an understanding of the poet's creative processes and central themes. Every reader of modernist literature will want...

The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade,...

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