Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
by Linda Ray Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement...
Voices of Italian America
A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before...
James M. Cain
Hard-Boiled Mythmaker
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker is a critical overview of the author's life, work, and legacy. An updated and expanded edition...
War Noir
Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience...
The Midwestern Pastoral
Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who...
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature
1485-1603
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of...
by Prabda Yoon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Winner of a PEN Translates! grant.
Winner of the Southeast Asian Write Award.
Selected as a ‘book to look out for in 2017’ by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books.
Named #1 Best Beach Read of 2017 by Monocle Summer Weekly.
In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on...
Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290)
The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life / stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In the first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation.
Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing...
by PERCY H. BOYNTON
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
The general purpose in the preparation of this book has been to eliminate negligible detail and to subordinate or omit authors of minor importance in order to stress the men and the movements that are most significant in American intellectual history. The book has therefore been written with a view...
by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder—and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself. . . . Manchette—masterful stylist, ironist, and social...
by Jacob Stratman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
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The New Diaspora
The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered...
by Brian McHale
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical...
The Disappearance of Literature
Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. Despite being primary points...