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  • Stephen King's The Body: Bookmarked

    af Aaron Burch ...
    Serier Bog 3 - Bookmarked
    A collection of four novellas, Different Seasons includes some of Stephen King's most enduring and well-known works, including "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," which was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption, and "The Body," which was made into the movie Stand by Me. For this entry in the Bookmarked series, Aaron Burch, editor of the literary journal Hobart, will focus on the ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

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  • Flappers and Philosophers

    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***Synopsis:This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald’s 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball movie comedies of the 1930’s in that it features a determined young heiress trying to get what she wants out of life.FIND AND ENJOY! ... Læs mere

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  • Wartime

    Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

    af Paul Fussell ...
    Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I ... Læs mere

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  • The Haunted Life

    af Jack Kerouac ...
    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, ... Læs mere

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  • The Road to Monticello

    The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by ... Læs mere

    344,68 kr.

  • Taps at Reveille - The Original 1935 Edition (18 short stories) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Eighteen Jazz Age Stories of Glamour, Loss, and American Desire

    Taps at Reveille, Fitzgerald's fourth and final story collection published during his lifetime, gathers eighteen stories that trace the glitter and disillusion of modern American life after the Jazz Age. Moving from prep-school comedies and romantic initiations to Hollywood satire and the chastened masterpiece "Babylon Revisited," the volume displays Fitzgerald's lucid lyricism, social acuity, and ... Læs mere

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    Serier serie Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."---Lennard Davis ... Læs mere

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  • Culture, Capital and Representation

    Redigeret af R. Balfour ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). ... Læs mere

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  • American Literature from 1945 Through Today

    af Adam Augustyn ...
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    Perhaps the most defining characteristic of American literature composed after World War II is the rejection of conventional form and structure with its increasingly uninhibited and experimental style. Embracing works from previously marginalized groups like African Americans and women and ushering in new genres, contemporary American literature has progressively begun to mirror the American ... Læs mere

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  • Postmodern/Postwar and After

    Rethinking American Literature

    Serier serie New American Canon
    Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have ... Læs mere

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  • Gatsby

    The Cultural History of the Great American Novel

    af Bob Batchelor ...
    Serier serie Contemporary American Literature
    In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced his third novel, a slim work for which he had high expectations. Despite such hopes, the novel received mixed reviews and lackluster sales. Over the decades, however, the reputation of The Great Gatsby has grown and millions of copies have been sold. One of the bestselling novels of all time, it is also considered one of the most significant achievements in ... Læs mere

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  • Red Land, Red Power

    Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

    Serier serie New Americanists
    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more ... Læs mere

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