American category: 24906 books
The Absurd Hero in American Fiction
Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and definitive study of a new trend in postwar American literature. In the years that followed, David Galloway’s analysis of the writings of John...
by David Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Edited this year by beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns.
Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase”...
Hospitality in American Literature and Culture
Spaces, Bodies, Borders
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions,...
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition
Toward a 21st Century Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition gathers Rigoberto González’s most important essays and book reviews, many of which consider the work of emerging poets whose identities and political positions are transforming what readers expect from contemporary poetry. A number of these voices represent intersectional...
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
Textual Disruptions
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental...
Poetics of Emptiness
Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.
This conceptual migration is detailed in two...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars...
The Best American Poetry 2008
Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Charles Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular...
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
Bernard Malamud
A Centennial Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American...
Unfinalized Moments
Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection...
Earth Songs, Moon Dreams
Paintings by American Indian Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women is a celebration of the contributions of Native American women to America's cultural heritage. Focusing on both traditional and modern art and offering an histroical and stylistic overview, Broder's book includes the work of Native American...
by Kathleen Bragdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of scholarship,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism...