Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-care... Lees meer

Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers' Project

Sara Rutkowski

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA's Federal Writers' Project (FWP)--a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting... Lees meer

George Saunders

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWar... Lees meer

New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 19... Lees meer

The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction

S Halldorson

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion... Lees meer

Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics

Alan Ramón Clinton

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Using the idea of 'parability, 'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a... Lees meer

Norman Mailer's Later Fictions

J Whalen-Bridge

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel Accordi... Lees meer

Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction

A Graham-Bertolini

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines u... Lees meer

Cormac McCarthy

K Lincoln

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences f... Lees meer

Exploring the Limits of the Human Through Science Fiction

Gerald Alva Miller Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching bo... Lees meer

Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger

Ian Tan

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens's poetry usi... Lees meer

Just War Theory and Literary Studies

Ty Hawkins, Andrew Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world. To do so, it explores J... Lees meer

The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing

Linda Voris

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's r... Lees meer

Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry

N Marsh

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of way... Lees meer

Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics

Alan Ramón Clinton

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Using the idea of 'parability, 'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a... Lees meer

The Middle Class in the Great Depression

Jennifer Haytock

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project ana... Lees meer

Retrospective Poe

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe's writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and ... Lees meer

The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682-1826

D MacNeil

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner du... Lees meer

James Merrill and W.H. Auden

P Gwiazda

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• James Merrill and W.H. Auden offers a substantial analysis of the literary and personal relationship between two major twentieth-century poets. As Gwi... Lees meer

Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics

S Salaita

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using liter... Lees meer

Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry

N Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of way... Lees meer

Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture

Mary C Foltz

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human w... Lees meer

American Borders

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range of contexts, from the founding of... Lees meer

American Political Poetry in the 21st Century

M Dowdy

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to... Lees meer