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Literary Criticism : American

American eBooks

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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath
By: Gill, Jo
Published by: Cambridge University Press

A lucid overview of Plath's life, work, influence, and the critical reception of her writings to the present day. more...

Price: $16.00


The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
By: Scofield, Martin
Published by: Cambridge University Press

A comprehensive introduction to the genre from Edgar Allen Poe to Raymond Carver. more...

Price: $21.00


The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner
By: Towner, Theresa M.
Published by: Cambridge University Press

An introductory overview of the works of one of America's most important and complex novelists. more...

Price: $16.00


Cather Studies
By: Studies, Cather
Published by: Bison Books

Part of a scholarship that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of her day, this chronologically arranged collection demonstrates that Cather found the subject of war both unavoidable, because of her position in history, and artistically irresistible. more...

Price: $35.00


A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865
By: Samuels, Shirley (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865 presents current critical responses to the broad range of American fiction written from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. The volume features contributions from over 35 leading international critics and scholars, who offer a cultural and historical context that serves to illuminate the fiction. The Companion covers both less well-known writers, such as Lydia Maria Child and George Lippard, and canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Contributors demonstrate how these authors present conflicts about territory and sovereignty and questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and identity. more...

Price: $121.95


A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South
By: Gray, Richard; Robinson, Owen
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. Consisting of over 30 original contributions, each of them written by an acknowledged authority in their field, the Companion reveals the diversity of the Southern region, as expressed in different forms of thought, work, and imaginative play. The first major section, concentrating on themes and issues, looks at the distinctive cultural characteristics of the American South and includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history and politics. The second focuses on writers who have made significant contributions to Southern thinking and the imaginative reinvention of the South. These include Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, and range from the earliest writers in the region to all those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now. more...

Price: $151.95


A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900 - 1950
By: Stoneley, Peter (ed.); Weinstein, Cindy (ed.)
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

This Concise Companion offers an authoritative overview of American fiction from 1900-1950 focusing on the literature that developed out of the social, cultural, and political changes, which occurred in the first part of the 20th century. With careful reference to key authors and their works, newly-commissioned chapters examine the period's formative events, such as the Depression and the two World Wars, and their representation in literature. In addition, essays also analyze the multiple and paraadoxical self-descriptions that have been taken to define modernism, such as the 'rise of proletarian literature' and the 'high modernist' novel. Looking at issues of race, language, cosmopolitanism, and the First and Second World Wars, this volume introduces the contextual information and strategic knowledge that students need to formulate their own readings of classic American fiction. Authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, who have defined our understanding of modernism for so long, are reread in relation to key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska. This Companion examines the original context of these authors' works and looks at its current reception to uncover how 20th-century literature is being reinterpreted in the new millennium. more...

Price: $100.00


Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture
By: Hendin, Josephine G.
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms.:.; Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more.; Shows how different genres and approaches opened up creative possibilities and interacted in the postwar period.; Portrays the postwar United States split by differences of wealth and position, by ethnicity and race, and by agendas of left and right, but united in the intensity of its creative drive. more...

Price: $64.95


Conrad Aiken
By: Denney, Reuel
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

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Price: $36.00


Creating American Civilization
By: Shumway, David R.
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

David R. Shumway contends that American literature is the product of study - the deliberate invention of a discipline seeking to define the character and legitimate the existence of a specifically American civilization. He traces the various reconstitutions of American literature by examining the discipline’s practices and techniques, discourses and structures, paradigms and unstated assumptions.This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology it would display in later phases, including sexism, racism, and class bias. Singular in its treatment of American literary study as a discipline rather than as criticism and in its insistence on the cultural and political work carried on by this discipline, Creating American Civilization will engage literary theorists and historians as well as individuals with an interest in American literature. more...

Price: $72.00


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