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  • American Terror

    The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville

    by Paul Hurh ...
    If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville—who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorized, and championed it ... Read more

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  • The Raven

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    The RavenEdgar Allan POE (1809 - 1849)"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is ... Read more

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  • The Haunted Life

    and Other Writings

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary confidant, Sebastian Sampas, lost his life on the Anzio beachhead while serving as a US Army medic. That spring -- still reeling with grief over Sebastian -- Kerouac solidified his friendships with Lucien Carr, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, offsetting the loss of Sampas by immersing himself in ... Read more

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  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

    by David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Read more

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."---Lennard Davis ... Read more

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  • God's Arbiters

    Americans and the Philippines, 1898 - 1902

    by Susan K. Harris ...
    Series series Imagining the Americas
    When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex the archipelago? The disputants did agree on one point: that the United States was divinely appointed to bring democracy--and with ... Read more

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  • Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum

    An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War–era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of biopolitical capture that saturates the American body politic down to its capillaries.The ... Read more

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  • A History of American Working-Class Literature

    Edited by Nicholas Coles, Paul Lauter ...
    A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place ... Read more

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  • Hemingway and Africa

    by Miriam B. Mandel, Philip H. Melling, Silvio Calabi, Suzanne del Gizzo, Beatriz Penas Ibanez, Chikako Tanimoto, Erik Nakjavani, Frank Mehring, James Plath, Professor Jeremiah M Kitunda0, Kelli A. Larson1 ...
    Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two nonfiction books, Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first safari, and True at First Light (1999; longer version, ... Read more

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  • Until Choice Do Us Part

    Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era

    by Clare Virginia Eby ...
    For centuries, people have been thinking and writing—and fiercely debating—about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a tool for social change.In Until Choice Do Us Part, Clare Virginia Eby offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions ... Read more

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  • Voices in the Wilderness

    Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric

    by Patricia Roberts-Miller ...
    What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America’s dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not ... Read more

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  • Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction

    by Edward Ragg ...
    Edward Ragg's study was the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career. Ragg's detailed close-readings highlight the poet's absorption of late nineteenth century and early ... Read more

    $109.09 USD