American Literature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian
Leslie Fiedler

Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly.Author and gadfly Leslie Fiedler was one of the best-known names in twentieth-century literary criti…

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S S van Dine
The Bishop Murder Case

In one of the most well-known classic American murder mysteries, amateur detective Philo Vance must solve a puzzle series of crimes based on nursery rhymes"The perfect sleuth for Jazz Age New York&qu…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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N Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn American Classics Edition

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A beautiful artistic object, a book everyone should read for…

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Pamela Carter Joern
At the Corner of Past and Future

With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to GaudÍ's cathedral. Through a range of experiences-growing up i…

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Kazumitsu Ito
The Meaning of Living

In this essay, I have attempted a " philosophical critique." In short, I have tried to summarize my thoughts on the foundation for living, the meaning of living, relationships with others, socie…

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
To Save and to Destroy

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive politica…

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Julio Cortázar,
From Julio

A collection of letters by one of the greatest writers of the last hundred years, Letters from Julio spans nearly three decades of Cortázar's life."He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who m…

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William H Pritchard
On Frost and Eliot

Named a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice ReviewsRobert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they …

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Rohan Phadnis
knightfall

knightfall by Rohan Phadnis is a collection of modern poetry that explores politics, philosophy, and the human condition. Across sixteen poems, such as A River Flowed Here, The Defender, and knightfall, P…

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Transkulturationen des Pikaresken in den romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas und Lateinamerikas

Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. Beihefte - Band 98

Pikareskes Erzählen hat offensichtlich Konjunktur in der literarischen (Post)Moderne Lateinamerikas und Afrikas. Die sozialen und ökonomischen Dynamiken von Urbanisierung, Modernisierung und Globalisierun…

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Manuel Muñoz
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Lauded for its empathetic portrayals of communities often ignored, Muñoz's second story collection won a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award. A new foreword by Cherríe Moraga gives testament to Muñoz's st…

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Manuel Muñoz
Zigzagger

Grounded in California's Central Valley, Muñoz's breakthrough collection explores the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings.

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writingHailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton,…

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Hanna Sellheim
Tierwerden und Pflanzendenken in der Literatur

Literary Ecologies - Band 7

Franz Kafka und H.P. Lovecraft sind weltberühmt, aber bisher kaum Gegenstand gemeinsamer literaturwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Hanna Sellheim bringt die beiden Autoren zusammen und arbeitet vor dem Hinte…

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Howard Rambsy Ii, Kenton Rambsy
One Black Writer at a Time

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized.Starting in the 1960s, Af…

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Kenneth C Davis
The World in Books

A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writers---from …

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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