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  • Dead Pledges

    Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture

    Serier serie Post*45
    Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what ... Læs mere

    224,50 kr.

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  • Maps and Legends

    Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

    The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together."I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period." Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called "genre" fiction.In this lively collection ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • 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

    144,24 kr.

  • 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.

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Redigeret af Mark Richardson ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Læs mere

    360,80 kr.

  • First We Read, Then We Write

    Emerson on the Creative Process

    Serier serie Muse Books
    Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage’s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the ... Læs mere

    135,99 kr.

  • Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave

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    af Aphra Behn ...
    Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony. Behn worked for Charles II as a spy during the outset of the Second Dutch War, ending up destitute when she returned to England, and even spending time in a debtors' ... Læs mere

    23,97 kr.

  • The Female Complaint

    The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

    The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably ... Læs mere

    204,11 kr.

  • 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

    238,24 kr.

  • Hospitality in American Literature and Culture

    Spaces, Bodies, Borders

    Serier serie Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting roles of hosts and guests in the United States, the book concentrates on ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

  • Whole Oceans Away

    Melville and the Pacific

    Redigeret af Barnum, Wyn Kelley, Christopher Sten ...
    Essays on Melville and the culture of the Pacific“Like the young Melville, those who imagine Polynesia from the perspective of Europe or North America tend to envision a tropical garden set in a shining sea. But the Pacific experienced by a runaway American sailor in an earlier century presents a different picture, and the Pacifi c experienced by indigenous peoples of today a different one yet.”— ... Læs mere

    440,89 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus