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  • The Recursive Frontier

    Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles

    by Michael Docherty ...
    Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
    The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Los Angeles

    A Literary History

    Edited by Michael Docherty, Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary ... Read more

    $131.19 USD

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    Orphans in Waiting & The Children of Witchwood

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Thrillers

    by Wally K. Daly ...
    Narrated by Judy Bennett, Abigail Docherty, Simon Radford, Michael Cochrane, Wendy Baxter ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 18 min

    A pair of thriller series from prolific radio writer Wally K. DalyAward-winning dramatist Wally K. Daly penned numerous plays for BBC Radio across a range of genres, including the beloved sci-fi ‘Scream Trilogy’ and the sitcoms Anything Legal and Give Or Take. Featured here are two of his gripping thriller series: the tense spy serial Orphans in Waiting and the eerie supernatural story The ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Rumer Godden: Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer & The Dark Horse

    Three Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

    by Rumer Godden ...
    Narrated by Indira Varma, Sinead Cusack, Lesley Sharp, David Rintoul, Ronny Jhutti, Ellie Beaven, Michael Maloney, Abigail Docherty, Nickolas Grace, Geoffrey Whitehead, Full Cast, Dearbhla Molloy ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Full-cast radio adaptations of three of Rumer Godden's bestselling novels, plus a bonus interview with the authorRumer Godden is well known for her acclaimed novels for adults and children. She wrote over 60 works in her lifetime, nine of which were made into films. Included here are dramatisations of three of her classic tales, as well as a fascinating interview with the renowned author.Black ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    The Tudor Crown

    A BBC Radio 4 Drama Collection

    by Alison Plowden, Abigail Docherty, John Mortimer, Madame de Lafayette, Peter Wolf, Michael Butt, Amanda Whittington, Paul B. Davies, Friedrich Schiller ...
    Narrated by Michael Bryant, Kathleen Helme, Melody Grove, Roger Lloyd Pack, Meg Fraser, Alexandra Mathie, Full Cast, Louise Brealey, Michael Hordern ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    Nine gripping dramas that delve into the turbulent, thrilling history of the Tudor eraAffairs and assassinations. Conflict and chaos. Power and plots. The tumultuous Tudor period is one of the most iconic and fascinating chapters in British history. In these ten atmospheric dramas, we get a glimpse into the inner workings of Tudor England – and rediscover the key characters we have grown to love ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of 'region' in theme and form. Written by prominent international scholars, the essays cover a diverse group of key texts and authors, including major ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature

    Edited by Leslie Bow, Russ Castronovo ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks of Literature
    An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of tools and perspectives to the rich and diverse traditions of American literary production. The editors have turned to leading as ... Read more

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  • A History of Western American Literature

    Edited by Susan Kollin ...
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    $105.79 USD

  • Approaches to American Cultural Studies

    Edited by Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper ...
    Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts.Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is ... Read more

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  • Emergent U.S. Literatures

    From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century

    by Cyrus Patell ...
    Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, Cyrus R. K. Patell compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

    Edited by Kevin R. McNamara ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly. The debates which were generated by these works have tended to be very ... Read more

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