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  • The War Comes with You

    Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy

    by Stacey Peebles ...
    How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever?In the post-2011 surge of war stories published in America and Iraq, the defining characteristic is the depiction of combat violence that crosses borders, overtakes civilian spaces, and disrupts chronology. In The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy, Stacey Peebles picks up where her ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cormac McCarthy and Performance

    Page, Stage, Screen

    by Stacey Peebles ...
    Cormac McCarthy is renowned as the author of popular and acclaimed novels such as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road. Throughout his career, however, McCarthy has also invested deeply in writing for film and theater, an engagement with other forms of storytelling that is often overlooked. He is the author of five screenplays and two plays, and he has been significantly involved ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Welcome to the Suck

    Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq

    by Stacey Peebles ...
    Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier's experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War.Stories about war always encompass ideas about ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Animals in the American Classics

    How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction

    by Susan F. Beegel, John Bird, Deborah Clarke, Robert Donahoo, William Engel, Barbara Heavilin, Stacey Peebles, Philip Edward Phillips, Anthony Reynolds, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Brian Yothers ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.John Cullen Gruesser’s edited volume Animals in the American Classics: ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy

    Edited by Stacey Peebles, Benjamin West ...
    Series Book 167 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary American authors. Experimenting with genres such as the crime thriller, the post-apocalyptic novel, and the western, his work also engages with the aesthetics of cinema, and several of his novels have been adapted for the screen. While timely and relevant ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

    Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

    Edited by Lee Gutkind ...
    The one guide every creative nonfiction writer needs to turn to when being "creative."Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations--or are partially fabricated. But what are the parameters of creative nonfiction? Keep It Real begins by defining creative nonfiction. Then it explores the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

    Edited by John T. Matthews ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion

    A Literary Companion

    by Erik Hage ...
    Series Book 9 - McFarland Literary Companions
    Cormac McCarthy, the author of such works as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, is one of America's greatest living writers--an uncompromising examiner of the depths of human depravity, the nature of evil, and the bonds that endure.This companion is intended for both the scholar and lay reader seeking a comprehensive understanding of McCarthy's body of ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Bending Genre

    Essays on Creative Nonfiction

    Edited by Dr. Margot Singer, Dr. Nicole Walker ...
    Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in creative nonfiction, Bending Genre asks not where the boundaries between the genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. The ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • How We Speak to One Another

    Edited by Ander Monson, Craig Reinbold ...
    “To read the collected essays here is to feel invited to a salon.” —Signature How We Speak to One Another is some of the most engaging evidence we’ve got that the essay is going strong. Here, essayists talk back to each other, to the work they love and the work that disquiets them, and to the very basic building blocks of what we understand “essay” to be. What’s compiled in these pages testifies ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh

    by R. Barton Palmer, Steven M. Sanders ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    "Provocative, insightful, and instructive analysis of the cinematic and philosophical significance of Steven Soderbergh's work." —Jason Holt, editor of The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake NewsWidely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose ... Read more

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