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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “theda wrede”
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  • Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature

    Healing Narratives

    by Theda Wrede ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an “authentic” relationship with nature. This idealized notion about life in the Southwest, however, has contributed the subjugation of the indigenous populations and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Lab Lit

    Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science

    by Olga Pilkington, Stephanie Chidester, Beverly Connor, Dean Conrad, Matt Hadley, Lynne Magowan, Amanda Scott, Eileen Trauth, Suzanne Trauth, Theda Wrede0, Ace G. Pilkington2, Kimberly H. Idol3, Elaine P. Pearce4, Jennifer L. Rohn5 ...
    Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science is the first formal, systematic, scholarly investigation of laboratory literature from the perspective of literary studies. Lab Lit as a new genre has received a lot of public and media attention due to its compelling presentation of science practitioners and the relatable explanations of the scientific advancements that have ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Feminist Ecocriticism

    Environment, Women, and Literature

    by Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Monique LaRocque, Theda Wrede, Richard M. Magee, Marnie M. Sullivan, Vicky L. Adams, Eric Otto ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction. The book explores the central claim of ecofeminism—that there is a connection between ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    by Victor R. Volkman ...
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    A Conflict that Shaped A GenerationFour decades on, the legacy of American involvement in the Viet Nam War still looms large in the lives of the veterans who experienced it first hand. This new anthology of poems, stories, and essays looks at the war through the lens of both past and present perspectives.Featuring the work of fifteen veteran writers, the scope of the book defines how modern ... Read more

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  • Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

    by Stoneback ...
    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The first volume in an important series of guides to the works of Ernest Hemingway"The Reading Hemingway series of guides to Ernest Hemingway's major works of fiction, short stories, and novels are written for students, fellow teachers, and other readers who share an interest in the works of one of America's, and indeed the world's, outstanding writers…. The books in this series will gloss or ... Read more

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Last Looks, Last Books

    Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

    by Helen Vendler ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Modern American poets writing in the face of deathIn Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010

    Edited by Freeman Dyson, Tim Folger ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    Twenty-eight of the best pieces of science and nature writing in America in a collection edited by the renowned physicist and public intellectual.The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then ... Read more

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  • The Poetics of Transition

    Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

    by Jonathan Levin ...
    Series series New Americanists
    The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement—is infused with power. He then offers a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Walden

    A Library of America Paperback Classic

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A special edition of “the most remarkable book in the American canon”—Thoreau’s timeless ode to the beauty of a life lived simply and among nature (Bill McKibben)In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once the record of the twenty-six months ... Read more

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  • The Musical Novel

    Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

    by Emily Petermann ...
    What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

    Edited by Ezra Greenspan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature ... Read more

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