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Handing One Another Along
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 27.00In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize?winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles? legendary course at Harvard, this provocative book addresses such questions as, ?Who are we?... more...
Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 49.99This book is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction. It opens up the discussion of young-adult racial and ethnic identity in literature to recognize, and focus on, those whose heritage straddles... more...
Pen of Iron
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 19.95The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning--and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow,... more...
Literature and the Environment
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 77.00The phrase literature and environment only achieved popularity in recent decades, yet writers dating back to the explorers of the 1500s?and later such 19th-century Romanticists as Thoreau?have long been addressing environmental issues through literary expression. This volume introduces students and educators to the field by tracing the evolution of... more...
African American Writers and Classical Tradition
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions... more...
In Babel's Shadow
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 75.00Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this insight, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book publication itself. In readings of G. V. Desanis All about H. Hatterr , Anthony Burgesss A Clockwork Orange , Christine Brooke-Roses Between , Eva Hoffmans Lost in Translation... more...
Roads of Her Own
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 95.20Reading Jack Kerouacs classic On the Road through Virginia Woolfs canonical A Room of Ones Own , the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: womens road narratives. The study shows how womens literature... more...
Critical Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 90.00Ralph Waldo Emerson, the greatest of the Transcendentalists, is often considered to be the central thinker in American history. In essays such as "Self-Reliance" and poems such as "Concord Hymn," he gave voice to ideals that Americans have held dear ever since. more...
The Other Emerson
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 83.00Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy. The Other Emerson is a thorough reassessment of the philosophical underpinnings, theoretical innovations, and ethical and political implications of the prose writings of one of... more...
The Global Remapping of American Literature
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 46.95This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of... more...









