"Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland relates Midwestern pastoral writers to their local geographies and explains…
"How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a "classic"? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short lis…
Denis Donoghue presents a short list of works of American fiction he regards as 'relative' classics: works whose appeal may not be universal, but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in American culture for more than a century.
"Native American Literature considers a selection of post-war novels by Native American writers, including well known, canonical works such as Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, as well as lesser known but equally enjoyable texts, such as Janet Campbell Hale's The Jailing of Ceceli…
Considering Native American literature within a modernist framework, and comparing it with writers such as Woolf, Stein, T.S Eliot and Proust results in a valuable and enriching context for the selected texts.
Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating o…
Rebein discusses twentieth century fiction, contrasting the period following the 1960s and 1970s "experimental writing"--Works written in the 1980s and 1990s -- with the earlier Modern works from the turn of the century forward to the 1960s. He finds that contemporary fiction co…
Who uses dirty words? And when? How is the bad language we use reflected in the movies, in the courts, and elsewhere? With Cursing in America, psychologist Timothy Jay presents the first serious and extensive examination of American profanity from a psycholinguistic-contextual p…
Who uses dirty words? And when? How is the bad language we use reflected in the movies, in the courts, and elsewhere? With Cursing in America, psychologist Timothy Jay presents the first serious and extensive examination of American profanity from a psycholinguistic-contextual p…
Pronde's the critical framework to examine several major works including, Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Invisible man by Ralph Ellison, and Mumbo jumbo by Ishmael Reed.
