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  • German Exile Biofiction

    The Metaphorical Art of Intellectual Activism

    de Professor Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Biofiction Studies
    Shows how after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers used biofiction to provide readers with a means of identifying root causes of political oppression.There were biofictions before the 20th century, but the literary form surged in the 1930s, especially among writers who fled Europe to escape the Nazis. What would be the best way to challenge and counteract the Nazis' oppressive ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Biofiction

    Edición de Lucia Boldrini, Laura Cernat, Alexandre Gefen, Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofiction's core foundations through contemporary debates.The volume is organized into seven sections: Histories of biofiction; Theoretical reflections on biofiction; ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction

    de Professor Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Biofiction Studies
    Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction.Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Biofiction

    An Introduction

    de Michael Lackey ...
    Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Conversations with Joanna Scott

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse is natural and the ordinary ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The American Biographical Novel

    de Professor Michael Lackey ...
    Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists

    de Professor Michael Lackey ...
    In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Conversations with Biographical Novelists

    Truthful Fictions across the Globe

    Edición de Professor Michael Lackey ...
    How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Haverford Discussions

    A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise strategies to dissuade young blacks ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Biofictional Histories, Mutations and Forms

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    Biofiction, defined as literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, first became popular in the 1930s, but over the last forty years it has become a dominant literary form. Prominent writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Julia Alvarez, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Colum McCann, and Michael Cunningham have authored ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Conversations with Jay Parini

    Edición de Michael Lackey ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Jungle

    de Upton Sinclair ...
    Narrado por Michael Lackey ...

    Completo

    17 hora 21 minutos

    Jurgis Rudkus, an impoverished Lithuanian immigrant, takes a lowly job at Brown's slaughterhouse to support his young wife and their relatives. Once admiring America for its potential, Rudkus has found opportunities to be too far out of his reach. After being evicted, Rudkus is living in a slum and deeply in debt - unable to support his family. As he attempts to make ends meet, the oppressive ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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