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Literary Passports
The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist...
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....
by David Mikics
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art.
Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century—the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and the only novelist to be...
Rooms of One's Own
50 Places That Made Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English...
Lillian and Dash
A Novel of Hellman and Hammett
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) and Lillian Hellman (The Children’s Hour) reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades.
Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living,...
Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground
From Obscurity to Literary Icon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
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and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.
by Georg Lukács
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of...
Late Essays
2006-2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize–winning author. J. M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking.
J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful...
Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)
The Literature of the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as...
Walden Pond
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today....
The Washington Irving Anthology
The Complete Fiction and Collected Non-Fictional Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Washington Irving sits atop the American literary canon alongside Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe. Indeed he was the first truly international American writer to achieve acclaim around the world as well as at home, and to make his living exclusively as a man of letters. His most famous stories "The...
Mind of an Outlaw
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s...
by John Flower
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don’t read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition...
Herbert Huncke
The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Often overlooked as a minor player on the fringes of the Beat Generation and largely dismissed by others as a scam artist, junkie, and hustler, Herbert Huncke was in fact a significant writer who served as a mentor and inspiration to such legendary figures as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and...