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Galaxie Wagon
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
In Galaxie Wagon, Darnell Arnoult navigates the territory of middle age to find humor, heartbreak, and wisdom in a phase of life where the body begins to betray itself, yet romance is still possible and childhood dreams are still attainable. Deceptively simple yet carefully crafted, these engaging...
Late Wife
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for...
by R. M. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In a collection of poems that moves from meditations on emotions to struggles with a cancer diagnosis, from the comfortable world of sun and sand to the jarring dark corners of the so, R. M. Ryan offers us insights into the experience of living. The Lost Road Adventures Club recalls the ephemera of...
The Prose Elegy
An Exploration of Modern American and British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follows...
Two Civil Wars
The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS Essex
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Two Civil Wars is both an edition of an unusual Civil War--era double journal and a narrative about the two writers who composed its contents. The initial journal entries were written by thirteen-year-old Celeste Repp while a student at St. Mary's Academy, a prominent but short-lived girls school...
Whitethorn
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
In "Poem for Jenne," which opens Jacqueline Osherow's ambitious and challenging newcollection, a neighbor has planted larkspur and delphinium in the poet's yard and is tending them hoping to bring color and light into a household stricken by personal tragedy. As the bright blue, star-shaped flowers...
Tears of Rage
The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction-Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this provocative study, Shelly Brivic presents the history of the twentieth-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices. Exploring four of the most renowned and challenging works written between 1930 and 1990 -- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!,...
Black Africans in the British Imagination
English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically,...
Out of Speech
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Grounded in technical mastery, the poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely. In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile, family, disease, desire, and isolation through an array of twentieth- and twenty-first century painters, including...
The Diener
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the dead in the interstice between the living world and the world beyond, is the person with whom Martha...
by Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer's works, world, and character. Bringing an innovative approach to literary criticism, Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal anecdote, scholarly research, travel...
by Charles Hannon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Throughout his career, William Faulkner produced a literary discourse remarkably contiguous with other discourses of American culture, but seldom has his work been explored as a participant in the shifts and ruptures that characterize modern discursive systems. Charles Hannon argues in his brilliant...
Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies
The Limits of Inference
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism on the successes and failures of O'Connor as a rhetorician.
This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's...
Tomorrow is Another Day
The Woman Writer in the South, 1859--1936
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1982
From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal often...