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In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville's life and work, Michael Rogin shows that Melville's novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family.
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The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and... Læs mere
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Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. Chicago was becoming 'an October sort of city even in the... Læs mere
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Features contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - "Typee", "White-Jacket", "Moby-Dick", and "Pierre-Samuel". This book delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange.
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This supplementary volume attempts to evaluate and simplify Pound's often bewildering work. It contains over 10,000 separate glosses that identify all proper names, literary and historical allusions, with exegeses based upon Pound's original sources.
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Since the late 1970s, a sub genre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the... Læs mere
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The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching impact on post-World War II American poetics. This volume presents his works published for the most part between... Læs mere
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In this memoir, Carolyn See embarks on a re-evaluation of the American Dream. It tells the story of See's family, and of others who believed in the American vision but found that it eluded their grasp.
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The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness, was also a scene of revulsion and combat. This book reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment.
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Presents a cultural history that investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848 - including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans.
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Including over 60 short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, this anthology collects together Mexican American writings about the US war... Læs mere
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4,000 words and phrases are organized thematically within 163 topics. Realistic illustrations and exercises are designed to build vocabulary and critical thinking skills. 13 bilingual editions available.