The Anti-Hero in the American Novel

D Simmons

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyo... Lees meer

Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body

S Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent tra... Lees meer

Writing Celebrity

T Galow

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examin... Lees meer

A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of ... 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

Rooting Memory, Rooting Place

C Lloyd

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting t... Lees meer

Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature

Joseph Fichtelberg

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endur... 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's Philosophy

Ty Hawkins

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This study contends that American writer Cormac McCarthy not only is philosophical, or a "writer of ideas," but rather that he has a philosophy. Devot... Lees meer

Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature

Joseph Fichtelberg

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endur... Lees meer

Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity

Stephen Gilbert Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingw... Lees meer

Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time

Paul Christian Jones

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar All... Lees meer

George Saunders

• Hardcover | 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

African American Gothic

M Wester

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myria... Lees meer

Queer Commodities

G Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical te... Lees meer

Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories

M Bostrom

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers a... Lees meer

Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U.S. Literature and Culture

Christopher W Clark

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photog... 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

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel

D Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyo... Lees meer

Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground

A Debritto

• Paperback | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early car... Lees meer

Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers' writing engages with and critiques modern social str... Lees meer

The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery

M MacArthur

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of co... Lees meer

Writing Celebrity

T Galow

• Hardcover | Engels | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examin... 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