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Presents an analysis of Whitman's quest for happiness. This book explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. It maintains that in... Læs mere
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Late-19th-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local... Læs mere
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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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Provides an account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. This title takes us from Duncan's birth in... Læs mere
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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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Redefines American modernist poetry in light of developments in modern painting, particularly cubism. This work places the poetry of well-known modernists such... Læs mere
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A biography of Mary Austin that explores her life and achievement. It tells the larger story of the importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.
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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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Contains the letters that trace young Sam Clemens' remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of "The Jumping Frog", soon to be a national and international celebrity.
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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