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  • Searching for Jim

    Slavery in Sam Clemens's World

    de Terrell Dempsey ...
    Series Libro 1 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    Searching for Jim is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens’s remarks to the contrary in his autobiography, slavery was very much a part of his life. Dempsey has uncovered a wealth of newspaper accounts and archival material revealing that Clemens’s life, from the ages of twelve to seventeen, was intertwined with the lives of the slaves around ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Age of Innocence (World's Classics Series)

    Enriched edition.

    de Edith Wharton, Dean Pritchard ...
    Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence' is a masterful exploration of social norms and expectations in the elite society of 1870s New York. The novel delves into the love triangle between Newland Archer, May Welland, and Countess Ellen Olenska, highlighting the challenges of adhering to societal conventions while longing for true love and individuality. Wharton's exquisite prose and keen ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Uncreative Writing

    Managing Language in the Digital Age

    de Kenneth Goldsmith ...
    Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Butterfly in the Typewriter

    The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

    de Cory MacLauchlin ...
    "An exhaustive biography. . . . Required reading for anyone interested in this enigmatic literary figure; indeed in Southern literature." — Washington TimesThe saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

    Edición de Catherine Ross Nickerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edición de Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism

    From Howells to London

    Edición de Donald Pizer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920

    Edición de Mark W. Van Wienen ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US ... Leer más

    $118.99 USD

  • Understanding Andre Dubus

    de Olivia Carr Edenfield ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An overview of a canon influenced by military service, faith, and a life-changing accidentAndre Dubus (1936–1999), the author of short stories, novellas, essays, and two novels, is perhaps best known as the author of the story "Killings," which was adapted into the film In the Bedroom, a nominee for five Academy Awards in 2001. His work received many awards, including the PEN New England Award, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice

    Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe

    de Kristen Case ...
    Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since the Enlightenment. Kristen Case's book argues that American poets from Emerson to Susan Howe have responded to the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edición de Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Libro 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Rhetoric of Terror

    Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror

    de Marc Redfield ...
    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom “9/11”: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essays making up The Rhetoric of Terror, Marc Redfield proposes the notion of “virtual trauma” to describe ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD