Robert Frost's Political Body

Grzegorz Kosc

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture
• A provocative new study that identifies a deep structure -- that of the political body -- in Frost's poetry. In Robert Frost's poetry lives the figure... Lees meer

Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's in Our Time

Matthew Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 2
• A handbook to Hemingway's famous collection of short stories that emphasizes its status as a modernist masterwork. The volume of collected short stori... Lees meer

A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had alrea... Lees meer

A Divided Poet

David Sanders

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 7
• Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole and in the context of the poet's career and development. North of Boston, Robert Fr... Lees meer

Hemingway and Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 8
• New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work. Hemingway's two extended African safaris, t... Lees meer

The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry

Ian D Copestake

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 5
• The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the ... Lees meer

Imagining Home

Susan Farrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 10
• The first study to bring Hemingway, Vonnegut, O'Brien, and 9/11 literature together in order to examine views about war, gender, and domesticity over ... Lees meer

Robert Lowell in a New Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 13
• New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles. Robert Lowell (1917-1977) holds... Lees meer

The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been... Lees meer

The Critical Reception of Flannery O'Connor, 1952-2017

Robert C Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 11
• The first chronological overview of O'Connor criticism from the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood, in 1952 to the present. Flannery O'Connor ... Lees meer

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Brian Yothers

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 15
• This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write i... Lees meer

John Steinbeck and the Critics

John Ditsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 1
• A fascinating survey of the changing fortunes of Steinbeck's critical reputation. This work by a prominent Steinbeck scholar begins with a study of th... Lees meer

The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 4
• New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. Thomas Pynchon's 1997 no... Lees meer

Paul Bowles

Barry Charles Tharaud

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 14
• Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his lit... Lees meer

The Secret Violence of Henry Miller

Katy Masuga

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 6
• Miller as a writer whose work does something more profound and violent to literary conventions than produce novel effects: it announces the possibilit... Lees meer

A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 3
• New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work. Published in 1932, Death in the After... Lees meer