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  • The Epic Trickster in American Literatueby Gregory E. Rutledge

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and... more...

  • Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movementby Paul Clements

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski?s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary... more...

  • Queer Chivalryby Tison Pugh

    LSU Press 2013; US$ 42.50

    For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions (and, at times, the atrocities) committed by such men. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions... more...

  • César Vallejoby Stephen M. Hart

    Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 99.00

    This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian César Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism. more...

  • Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010by Paula T. Connolly

    University of Iowa Press 2013;

    Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children’s literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served as primers for racial socialization. This first... more...

  • Nabokov's Adaby Brian Boyd

    Cybereditions 2001; US$ 17.95

    Brian Boyd's classic study explores the relationship between the obvious dazzle of Nabokov's style and the unsuspected depths of his thought before focusing on his richest and most surprising novel. This 'stunning', 'magnificent' first book by 'the great man of Nabokov studies', which 'provides not only the best commentary on Ada , but also a... more...

  • Poems in Personsby Norman Holland

    Cybereditions 2000; US$ 15.95

    This book gives the study of literature a powerful psychoanalytic model for the literary process. The first edition of Poems in Persons established American-style reader-response criticism and showed how this new understanding applies to all kinds of human psychological processes. This second revised edition adds important new developments to... more...

  • Sarah Orne Jewettby Josephine Donovan

    Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95

    An updated and revised edition of a classic study, this widely cited book presents a lucid review of all of Jewett's work, which includes nearly 200 stories and novels. In a new preface Donovan discusses the 'culture war' that has recently erupted over Jewett. more...

  • Between Profits and Primitivismby Athena Devlin

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95

    Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and self-consciously to position themselves within the culture.... more...

  • Don DeLilloby Peter Boxall

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95

    One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and economic concerns for the fist time. Providing a... more...