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  • Understanding John Updike

    by Frederic Svoboda ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A close look at the extraordinary literary achievements of a popular and prolific American authorThe winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy. A superb stylist with sixty books to his credit, he ... Read more

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  • Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    by Michael Gorra ...
    A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra ... Read more

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  • Henry Miller on Writing

    by Henry Miller ...
    “A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesSome of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using ... Read more

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  • The Fun of It

    Stories from The Talk of the Town

    by James Thurber, John Updike, E. B. White ...
    William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way.The Fun of It is the first anthology of ... Read more

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  • On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    "Fearless, illuminating" criticism from a New York Times–bestselling author and legendary teacher, "proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial" ( Los Angeles Times).Novelist John Gardner's thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: "True art is by its nature moral." It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in life and in art. Since the book's first publication, ... Read more

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  • Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

    by Gesa Mackenthun ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of ... Read more

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  • The Achievement of Wendell Berry

    The Hard History of Love

    by Fritz Oehlschlaeger ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    Arguably one of the most important American writers working today, Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books, including novels and collections of poems, short stories, and essays. A prominent spokesman for agrarian values, Berry frequently defends such practices and ideas as sustainable agriculture, healthy rural communities, connection to place, the pleasures of work, and the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Covert Sphere

    Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State

    by Timothy Melley ...
    In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four—a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Undisciplined

    Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

    by Nihad M. Farooq ...
    Series Book 9 - America and the Long 19th Century
    In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq’s Undisciplined encourages ... Read more

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  • Inventing the Language to Tell It

    Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness

    by George Hart ...
    From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers’s poetic experiment is an important contribution to American literary history—no other twentieth-century poet attempted such a thorough engagement ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Postmillennial Vampire

    Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives

    by Susan Chaplin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Sentimental Touch

    The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism

    by Aaron Ritzenberg ...
    Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental ... Read more

    $39.99 USD