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  • Publishing the Family

    Series series New Americanists
    In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change, Howard reconsiders such categories of analysis as authorship, genre, and periodization. In the ... Read more

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  • Form and History in American Literary Naturalism

    by June Howard ...
    Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense — and making narrative — out of the comforts and discomforts of its historical moment.Howard believes that naturalism ... Read more

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  • The Center of the World

    Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time

    by June Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this study explores how regional writing shapes ways of imagining not only the neighborhood or the province, but also the nation, and ... Read more

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    Environmental Poetics And Ethics

    Series series Environmental Arts and Humanities Series
    This work covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? He addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and ... Read more

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  • On Humor

    The Best from American Literature

    Edited by Louis J. Budd, Edwin H. Cady ...
    Series series The Best from American literature
    From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to ... Read more

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  • Grimms' Fairy Tales

    A Timeless Collection of Enchantment, Wonder, and ImaginationGrimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is one of the most influential collections of traditional stories ever published, bringing together tales that have shaped generations of readers and become an essential part of world literature.First published in Germany in 1812, the collection is commonly known today as Grimms’ Fairy Tales ... Read more

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

    This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history. Quotes from the book: "Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute." "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence ... Read more

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  • The Great War And Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Read more

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  • A Susan Sontag Reader

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ, there is an essential unity in all her work. The truth of this is perhaps more evident in A Susan Sontag ... Read more

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  • The Red Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

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  • Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders.Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that ... Read more

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