Literary Criticism : American

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Tracing the evolution of Susan Glaspell's writing, Veronica Makowsky provides fascinating glimpses of the life of a woman who broke the barriers against female journalists, advocated socialism, struggled with the precepts of Greenwich Village free love, was one of the founders of the Provincetown Players, participated in the sessions of the feminist Heterodoxy Club, placed women's concerns on the stage as a playwright and actress, and wrote about a turbulent century of American women with courage, optimism, sensitivity, and love. This is the first full-length book about Glaspell's works, including the fiction and lifewriting that bracketed her relatively brief career as the playwright best-known for the one-act drama Trifles. Also the author of many other plays, including the Pulitzer prize-winning Alison's House, a number of collected and uncollected short stories, nine novels, and a biography of her husband the iconoclastic George Cram Cook, Glaspell was an artist of formidable, but ill-acknowledged talent. Makowsky places Glaspell's work in its biographical and cultural context, with particular attention to Glaspell's depiction of women's roles over a century of American history. In addition, she examines closely Glaspell's use of the maternal metaphor and her depiction of women in the role of mothers. This absorbing and revelatory study rescues one of America's literary "foremothers" from relative obscurity, challenging canonical ideas about the circumstances that lead to literary "greatness."  more...

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Though he died some forty years ago, James Thurber remains a vastly popular author, whose irreverent, insightful, and consistently witty books--for both adults and children, and typically illustrated with his droll cartoons--remain largely in print. Simon & Schuster had a strong and lasting relationship with Thurber, so it is appropriate that we be the publisher of this new collection of his letters. (An earlier collection, published in 1981 by Little, Brown, and edited by Thurber's widow, is long out of print.) For the first time, James Thurber's daughter will allow the publication of many of the extremely personal letters he wrote to both her and her late mother, and, in addition, Harrison Kinney who will edit this collection, has located many others that have never before been published. In the book, letters in most instances will be presented chronologically by date, and in an effort to make the text more accessible,an effort has been made to avoid footnotes where possible, using instead short explanatory notes preceding the letters wherever appropriate. Thurber's original drawings will be used when relevant to a particular letter, and in addition there will be an 8-page photo insert showing many of the principles. more...

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This book raises the provocative issue of how Native languages and knowledges were historically excluded from the study of Native American literature and how their encoding in early Native American texts destabilized colonial processes. Cogently argued and well-researched, Tribal Theory in Native American Literature sets an agenda for indigenous literary criticism and invites scholars to confront the worlds behind the literatures that they analyze. more...

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