Classic American Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 10

Alison Kinney
United States of Rejection

This is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nati…

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Jeremy Rosen
Genre Bending

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular…

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Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historic…

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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James Peacock,
Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Litera…

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Laura Ryan
D. H. Lawrence and Black Modernism

The first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernist writers - Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean …

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Joshua Lander
Philip Roth and the Body

To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?Philip Roth and the Body questions the symbolic fun…

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Us Presidents,
Smithsonian Book of Presidential Speeches

Experience 72 landmark speeches from every US president in this keepsake book of words that have influenced and defined democracyForty-five men have addressed the American people as their president of the…

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Janet N Gold
Clementina Suárez

The biography of a Honduran writer who defied conventions through her life and writingClementina Suárez (1902-1991), the legendary matriarch of Honduran letters, scandalized Central American society with …

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Martin Amis
The Moronic Inferno

Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields , presents a collection of essays on the "moronic inferno," aka the United States of America. A thrilling tour of late-twentieth-centu…

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Fang Tang
Metaphors of Illness in Chinese North American Literature

By exploring various representations of illness and disability in Chinese American literature, Sarah Tang argues that narratives of ailments transcend the boundaries of medical therapy to become essential…

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John Rieder
Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises,this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods,…

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Edwidge Danticat
We're Alone

A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage

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F Scott Fitzgerald
On Booze

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Bo…

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Daniel A Nelson
Seeing to See

Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau. Dickinson proves challenging due to her short and obscure poems and Thoreau due…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of t…

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