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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of BelovedToni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious.In a dazz…

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Mark Twain,
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature."Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . .…

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Mark Twain,
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature."Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . .…

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Stephanie Burt
The Poem Is You

A delightful and provocative journey across four decades of contemporary American poetry with Stephanie Burt, "the leading poetry critic of her generation" (New York Times), as our surefooted gu…

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Steven Belletto
Black Surrealist

"Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003…

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Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones's Pragm…

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Getting Naked with Harry Crews

In twenty-six interviews conducted between 1972 and 1997, novelist Harry Crews tells the truth -- about why and how he writes, about the literary influences on his own work, about the writers he admires (…

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Regina Przybycien,
Black Beans and Diamonds

Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien's Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the Ame…

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub The Week A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review Time The Week The Millions"A masterpiece." -Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of BooksA mesmeriz…

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Declan Gould,
Disability in Contemporary American Poetry

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed poetics and use the space of literature to launch alternative theories of psy…

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub The Week A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review Time The Week The Millions"A masterpiece." -Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of BooksA mesmeriz…

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Pilar Martinez Benedi, Ralph James Savarese,
Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sou…

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José Carlos Díaz-Zanelli
Insurgent Veins

Insurgent Veins examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the early twentieth-century indigenista literary tradition and its influence on the consolidation of Indigenous literature, which emerged…

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Günter Leypoldt
Literature's Social Lives

This book draws from literary sociology to look at literature in a longue durée (from Romantic poetry to the Toni-Morrison novel). It proposes a new value theory, and sketches an institutional history of …

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Hemingway and Italy

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemi…

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Ferdowsi,
Shahnameh

A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia's greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi's work protected the Pe…

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Lucas Hardy,
Theologies of Pain

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping New England culture, identity, early American nationalism and racial tropes.

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Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Philip Davis
In Conversation with Willa Cather

Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much interested in plots; she works instead by juxtaposition, leaving it up to the reader to …

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Elizabeth Barrios
Failures of the Imagination

Despite the precariousness of an oil-based economy and the government's professed concern about climate change, a failure of imagination regarding alternatives continues to trap Venezuela in an oil-fueled…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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