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  • Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead

    de Tim Dayton ...
    The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men—likely somewhere between 700 and 800—died of acute silicosis ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War

    Edición de Tim Dayton, Mark W. Van Wienen ...
    In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war effort. A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War explores this fraught ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • American Poetry and the First World War

    de Tim Dayton ...
    American Poetry and the First World War connects American poetry to the political and economic forces behind American participation in World War I. Dayton investigates the ways that poetry was used to imagine the war and studies a wide range of poetry: open and closed form, formal and colloquial, well-known and unknown. In a chapter on Edith Wharton, Dayton demonstrates that many of the features ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    de George Hutchinson ...
    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Making Something Happen

    American Political Poetry between the World Wars

    de Michael Thurston ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    “Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s — the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move ... 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

  • The American Experiment

    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    de James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series The American Experiment
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • LEADERSHIP: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence

    de Barbara Kellerman ...
    "Bravo to Barbara Kellerman! Building upon a lifetime of scholarship and upon a popular course she has created at Harvard, Kellerman brings between the covers of a single volume the world's classic literature on leadership. Every thoughtful leader will find deep, rich rewards here." -- David Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership Harvard Kennedy School, Former Presidential AdviserBolster ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Thinking About History

    de Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Workshop of Democracy, 1863–1932

    de James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Libro 2 - The American Experiment
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great DepressionAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not soon heal, but with that ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Use and Abuse of Literature

    de Marjorie Garber ...
    As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, Garber ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Silence on the Shore

    de Hugh Garner ...
    Series Libro 19 - Voyageur Classics
    Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the books events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus