Télécharger le livre :  The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing
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 radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled...

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Télécharger le livre :  Revision as Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal...

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Télécharger le livre :  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) up to the recent success of A Man Without A...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Rooting Memory, Rooting Place
This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature
Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market...

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Parution : 2014-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground
This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Middle Class in the Great Depression
In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project analyzes popular representations of middle class life.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
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 David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction
Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  African American Gothic
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body
In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics
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 creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of...

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Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative
This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Queer Commodities
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror
Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and cultural methods of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction
This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Bret Easton Ellis
This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Celebrity
Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary" writing in the decades before World War II.  The second two sections...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature
This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-09
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