A Dream of Peace

Ronald Grant Nutter

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 9
• The American novelist John Gardner died in a motorcycle accident in 1982. His novels, in which death and guilt are brooding presences, continue to att... Lees meer

The Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama

Thaddeus Wakefield

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 39
• The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler's colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson's Ki... Lees meer

William Carlos Williams and Charles Tomlinson

• Paperback | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 17
• An important chapter in the story of Anglo-American literary relationships in the twentieth century is the friendship of the American poet William Car... Lees meer

Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels

Randy Laist

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 52
• More than any other major American author, Don DeLillo has examined the manner in which contemporary American consciousness has been shaped by the his... Lees meer

Deconstructing Frank Norris's Fiction

Lon West

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 13
• Frank Norris, a contemporary of such famous American authors as Jack London and Theodore Dreiser, has long been grouped with them into the category of... Lees meer

Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction

Allen F Stein

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 45
• Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction offers close readings of some thirty stories - Chopin's most significant short works - the majority ... Lees meer

The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness

Ammar Abduh Aqeeli

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 73
• The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness pariticipates in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts Movement of t... Lees meer

Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination

Intaek Oh

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 54
• Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy - Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man's River (199... Lees meer

Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst

Licia Morrow Calloway

• Paperback | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 27
• During the Harlem Renaissance, competing rhetorics of racial uplift centered upon concerns regarding class identification and the process of accultura... Lees meer

Lillian Hellman and August Wilson

Margaret Booker

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 37
• This book critically discusses the works of two seemingly different and unconnected playwrights, Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. By analyzing the b... Lees meer

The Paradox of Thanatos

Tanguy Harma

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 74
• What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned, primarily, by a trope of nul... Lees meer

"The Game as It Is Played"

Donald Pizer

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 66
• The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer's essays on Theodore Dreiser. The essays explore several of the more controversial areas o... Lees meer

Robert Penn Warren's Novels

Cecilia S Donohue

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 12
• In presenting an innovative and timely analysis of the novels of one of America's foremost modernists, the author draws on theories of women's speech,... Lees meer

Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo; Narratives of Everyday Justice

Jason S Polley

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 60
• The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argu... Lees meer

Contemporary Latina/O Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante

Leah Garland

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 44
• Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante demonstrates the crucial significance of looking at theatrical perfo... Lees meer

Forest Beatniks and Urban Thoreaus

Rod Phillips

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 22
• The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon --the product of a postwar-youth cul... Lees meer

Hunting the Sun

Merrill Horton

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 55
• Hunting the Sun upends all previous Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honoré de Balzac virtually everything in William Faul... Lees meer

Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld

Evans Lansing Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 62
• Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War... Lees meer

Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities

Jose Armengol

• Paperback | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 57
• Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities demonstrates how contemporary U.S. novelist Richard Ford, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, r... Lees meer

Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity; The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Yoriko Ishida

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 53
• The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysi... Lees meer

From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison

Jeffrey J Folks

• Paperback | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 25
• From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethica... Lees meer

John Updike's Human Comedy

Brian Keener

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 43
• The comedy in John Updike's most important works - The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest ; and Rabbit Remembered - de... Lees meer

Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self

Nathan Straight

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 59
• Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self expands the field of autobiography studies by describing an emergent genre, natural biography, that e... Lees meer

Desire and Disillusionment

Lawrence E Hussman

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern American Literature | nr. 64
• Lawrence E. Hussman examines selected novels and short stories of fifty major American fiction writers from Stephen Crane to Junot Diaz. The reader wi... Lees meer