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  • Vietnam War Storiesby Tobey C. Herzog

    Routledge 1992; US$ 38.95

    Dealing with ten key narratives, including novels and personal accounts, Herzog locates them in the tradition of war literature as well as recent cinema, and charts the transformations of the American nation in its experience of modern war. more...

  • Difference In View: Women And Modernismby Gabriele Griffin

    Taylor & Francis 1994; US$ 53.95

    This, of course, does nothing for those who do not fit the image. Predictably, for example, Faulkner (1986, p. 13) writes of D.H. Lawrence, who was not quite middle class (at least not at the beginning of his career) that ?Lawrence, in particular, can be seen as defining a characteristically independent position?. The presentation of modernism as possessing ?a clear cultural identity? is thus immediately undercut by the difference here ascribed to Lawrence. Indeed, proclamations of the specificity of modernism meet the resistance of difference already present in the work of modernist artists and writers in the form of fragmentation and tensions expressed as competing truths. more...

  • Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century Americaby Sandra Baringer

    Routledge 2004; US$ 161.00

    Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon. more...

  • Literature of Immigration and Racial Formationby Linda Joyce Brown

    Routledge 2004; US$ 113.00

    This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. more...

  • Dangerous Desireby Pamela Barnett

    Routledge 2004; US$ 27.95

    This is an important work that calls attention to how post-1960s literary representations of rape have shaped the ways in which both sexual and social freedoms are imagined in American literature and culture. more...

  • Surviving The Crossingby Jessica Rabin

    Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 123.00

    By examining the fiction of three women modernists - Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein and Nella Larsen - this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender and ethnic identities in the interwar period. more...

  • Modern Confessional Writingby Jo Gill

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 163.00

    A collection of essays that provide a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. more...

  • Beat Cultureby William T. Lawlor

    ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00

    The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. more...

  • Framing the Marginsby Phillip Brian Harper

    Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 42.00

    In this reassessment of postmodernism, the author contends that the fragmentation considered to be characteristic of the postmodern age can in fact be traced to the status of marginalized American and Afro-American writers of the 1930s to 1950s, such as West, Nin, Barnes, Allison and Brooks. more...

  • The Pleasures of Babelby Jay Clayton

    Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 49.95

    Offering an explication of the often stormy relationship between contemporary American literature and criticism, this study examines systematically the movements of the last two decades - deconstruction, feminism - and engages theories of narrative by applying them to recent literary works. more...