Pragmatism and Poetic Agency

Ulf Schulenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Schulenberg continues the thought-provoking argument he developed in his previous two monographs by advancing the idea that one can only grasp the uni... Lees meer

Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel

Joseph Conte

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politic... Lees meer

Representations of Technoculture in Don Delillo's Novels

Laila Sougri

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book is the first to explore technoculture in all of Don DeLillo's novels. From Americana (1971) to The Silence (2020), the American author anato... Lees meer

Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Maureen E Ruprecht Fadem

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influen... Lees meer

J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature

Jonathan Locke Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller, from his earliest writing in the 1950s to those near the time of his... Lees meer

Unhappy Beginnings

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concept... Lees meer

Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature

Joelle Mann

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a hist... Lees meer

Rethinking Fiction After the 2007/8 Financial Crisis

Miroslaw Aleksander Miernik

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction. Employing an interdisci... Lees meer

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

Andrew Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist ... Lees meer

Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937

Grant F Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who h... Lees meer

Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place

Alice Sundman

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison's archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts t... Lees meer

Poetic Encounters in the Americas

Peter Ramos

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge examines the ways in which U.S. and Latin American modernist canons have been in cross-cultural, ... Lees meer

Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits

Adriano Tedde

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition... Lees meer

Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic

Wanlin Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of... Lees meer

From Subjection to Survival

Molly J Freitas

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual... Lees meer

Asian American War Stories

Jeffrey Tyler Gibbons

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma... Lees meer

Pragmatism and Poetic Agency

Ulf Schulenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Pragmatism is a humanist philosophy. In spite of the much-debated renaissance of pragmatism, however, a detailed discussion of the relationship betwee... Lees meer

The Mercurial Mark Twain(s)

James L Machor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Who was Mark Twain? Was he the genial author of two beloved boys books, the white-haired and white-suited avuncular humorist, the realistic novelist, ... Lees meer

Wallace and I

Jamie Redgate

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being ," what he actually meant by the ... Lees meer

Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo

Philipp Wolf

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence , along with his 1984... Lees meer

Articulations of Resistance

Sirène H Harb

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resi... Lees meer

Wallace and I

Jamie Redgate

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being ," what he actually meant by the ... Lees meer

The Shape of Fantasy

Charul Palmer-Patel

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and ph... Lees meer

Interpreting Susan Sontag's Essays

Mark Fulk

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag's essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialo... Lees meer