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Literary Rogues
A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis.
Literary Rogues is a wildly funny and illuminating...
by Carl Rollyson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection of columns from the New York Sun, Carl Rollyson explores the relationship between narrative and literary analysis. Should biographies be written in the style and form of novels? How to balance the life and the work? How much literary...
by Celena Kusch
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts...
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...
Literary Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With contributions by Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O'Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Piacentino, Claude Pruitt, Thomas J. Richardson, Donald M. Shaffer, Theresa M. Towner, Terrence T. Tucker, Daniel Cross Turner, Lorie Watkins,...
Literary Geographies
Narrative Space in Let The Great World Spin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
Demands of the Dead
Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty–abolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articles,...
by Cynthia Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and...
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
Romanticism and Childhood
The Infantilization of British Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. Ann Wierda Rowland discovers new answers to this question in the rise of a vernacular literary tradition. In the Romantic period the child came...
The Tenth Muse
Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early...
by Larzer Ziff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own words "the most conspicuous man on the planet." Now, in this wonderful recounting of his career, Larzer Ziff offers an incisive,...
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century
Anxious Employment
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both...