Classic American Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 9

Diane C McPhail
The French Innkeeper's Daughter

Exiled from her home in rural, 18th century France, a resilient young woman journeys through the forests of Normandy, to the oppressive poverty of pre-Revolutionary Paris, and ultimately to her destiny as…

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Rafael Walker
Realism After the Individual

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.Reali…

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Aaron Colton
Writing Through Writer's Block

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan…

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Denne Michele Norris, Electric Literature
Both/And

From Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.Featuring se…

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Franny Choi
We Radiant Things

Part lyric memoir and part cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi's debut essay collection explores pop culture's obsession with robots and what media representation of Asian femmes reveals about …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison

Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently…

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The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies' Home Journal to Vogue this diverse collection examines how the nation's First Lady has become an important cultural icon wit…

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Kelly L Bezio
In Contagion's Wake

An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated---and were exacerbated by---the spread of infectionIn April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the …

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John Updike,
Selected Letters of John Updike

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS' CHOICE • The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers---a remarkable outpouring over …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison

Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently…

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Lupe Mendez
We Exist in the Whisper

"One day all these classrooms / will no longer hold any of us. / Leave no evidence we were here. / We exist in the whisper...." Lupe Mendez's innovative new collection captures a unique time in …

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Stacey Margolis
Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…

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Susan Farrell
Vonnegut's War

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Fiveis widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with …

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Kelly L Bezio
In Contagion's Wake

An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated---and were exacerbated by---the spread of infectionIn April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the …

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Italian Americans on the Page

Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied voices from both the United States and Canada.Italian Americans on the Page fills a signifi…

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Kansas Matters

An anthology of poetry and prose from thirty-five of today's leading literary voices from the Sunflower State, brought together to explore how Kansas makes us feel and why we're proud to call it home.Kans…

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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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Scarlet Ibis James
Scarlet Birthright

Scarlet Birthright: What They Left BehindAward-Winning Standalone Fiction Novella"A moving family saga ... about fractured family relationships and the healing power of love."- Foreword ReviewsW…

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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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Howard Rambsy Ii,
Writing Black Panther

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's pres…

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