Kent State University Press: 593 books
Arthur Mervyn
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Arthur Mervyn has long puzzled students and scholars with its seeming diffuseness, resulting from its original serial publication. Critics agree, however, that the power of this novel lies not so much in its portrait of “right virtue,” which was Brown's primary aim, as in its realistic descriptions...
by Rosemary Willey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1997
“Many of the poems in Rosemary Willey’s Intended Place are flawless meditations on possibility and denial. The voice in these poems is straightforward, and there isn’t an emotional placebo behind the terse syntax and the believable imagery. “From the very first few pages, we realize that this...
by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the Purple Cow centers around the domains of Irish-American men and women in Pittsburgh. Goran creates once...
The Rhetoric of Certitude
C.S. Lewis's Nonfiction Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
While numerous studies on C. S. Lewis’s literary achievements have been published in the past several years, The Rhetoric of Certitude brings much-needed attention to Lewis’s nonfiction prose, identifying his unique style and explaining why his writing has remained popular while that of so many...
Brainwashing
The Fictions of Mind Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
An examination of the literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era
“Brainwashing: A method for systematically changing attitudes or altering beliefs, originated in totalitarian countries, especially through the use of torture, drugs, or psychological-stress...
Splintered Light: Tolkien's World, Revised Edition
Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of...
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
An anthology of the best scholarship on the celebrated African American writer
A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recognition. Praised by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglass, who called him...
The Space Between
Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Annie Dillard, a foremost practitioner of the literary epiphany, has become a representative of a necromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This first full-length study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist...
The Sweet and the Bitter
Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece have a great deal to teach us. From the heroic to the humble, Tolkien draws on medieval concepts...
A Sea of Change
Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream - a Contextual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A fresh perspective on Hemingway's work
Early in his career, when To Have and Have Not was published, Ernest Hemingway's portrayal of themes, setting, and character was often compared to Cezanne's art - abstract. By contrast, in 1952, with the publication of The Old Man and the Sea, his style...
Hemingway's The Garden of Eden
Twenty-five Years of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first book-length study of the novel that transformed Hemingway scholarship
When The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years after Ernest Hemingway's death, it was a watershed event that changed readers' and scholars' perceptions of the famous American author. Following...
No Uncle Sam
Forgotten of Bataan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
On April 9, 1942, Gen. Edward King, commander of the Fil-American forces in Bataan, surrendered to the Japanese. To this day, it remains the largest American army in history to surrender, numbering more than 70,000 Filipinos and Americans. After the surrender the Japanese marched their captives to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
This revised edition of Ambrose Bierce’s 1892 collection of “Soldiers” and “Civilians” tales fills a void in American literature. A veteran of the Civil War and a journalist known for his integrity and biting satire, Ambrose Bierce was also a lively short-story writer of considerable depth...
by Elizabeth Breese
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
"Traveling from her pastoral America to Neruda's Chile and the Ireland of St. Kevin, Elizabeth Breese sings the lonely-wild lyric of ditch flowers and raw honey, tornados and radios, broken birds and sailors lost at sea. Her ars poetica: 'little bee hand in pocket editions, the rough-/ cut paper...