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  • Stephen King's The Body: Bookmarked

    by Aaron Burch ...
    Series Book 3 - Bookmarked
    A collection of four novellas, Different Seasons includes some of Stephen King's most enduring and well-known works, including "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," which was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption, and "The Body," which was made into the movie Stand by Me. For this entry in the Bookmarked series, Aaron Burch, editor of the literary journal Hobart, will focus on the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Flappers and Philosophers

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald’s sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writer’s entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Ice Palace,” “Head and Shoulders,” and “The Offshore Pirate.” In these pages ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Wartime

    Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

    by Paul Fussell ...
    Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • 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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  • The Road to Monticello

    The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

    by Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • 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

    $22.29 USD

  • Culture, Capital and Representation

    Edited by R. Balfour ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • American Literature from 1945 Through Today

    by Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
    Perhaps the most defining characteristic of American literature composed after World War II is the rejection of conventional form and structure with its increasingly uninhibited and experimental style. Embracing works from previously marginalized groups like African Americans and women and ushering in new genres, contemporary American literature has progressively begun to mirror the American ... Read more

    $42.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Postmodern/Postwar and After

    Rethinking American Literature

    Edited by Jason Gladstone, Andrew Hoberek, Daniel Worden ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Gatsby

    The Cultural History of the Great American Novel

    by Bob Batchelor ...
    Series series Contemporary American Literature
    In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced his third novel, a slim work for which he had high expectations. Despite such hopes, the novel received mixed reviews and lackluster sales. Over the decades, however, the reputation of The Great Gatsby has grown and millions of copies have been sold. One of the bestselling novels of all time, it is also considered one of the most significant achievements in ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Red Land, Red Power

    Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

    by Sean Kicummah Teuton, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Writing with Scissors

    American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance

    by Ellen Gruber Garvey ...
    Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like ... Read more

    $43.19 USD