Classic American Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 9

Rafael Ocasio
Peach Pit Corazón

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1989 first novel, The Line of the Sun(Georgia); awarded the coveted O. He…

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Andrew Lang
Arabian Nights

The king's new bride, Scheherazade, is to be put to death. Using a clever strategy, she delays her imminent execution by recounting a series of interlinked stories, each leading into the next, which colle…

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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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Thomas Jefferson,
The Quotable Jefferson

The most comprehensive book of quotations by the most quotable Founding Father

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham
We Are Like Those Who Dream

Illuminating speeches by famous black women that offer wisdom and clarity, solace and inspiration--curated by, and with personal essays from, a leader whose "voice is going to be making a difference …

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Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War

Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton's writings from World War I and places Wharton in the company of other "Great War" writers.

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Andrea Long Chu
Authority

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical es…

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Maggie Mckinley
The Art of Looking Back

In The Art of Looking Back, Maggie McKinley evaluates the complex nature of nostalgia in the canon of Joan Didion, a theme that has often been taken for granted, oversimplified, and misunderstood. In reas…

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Robert J Patterson
Black Narratives of Slavery

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--en…

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José Hernández, G J Racz
The Gaucho Martãn Fierro and Martãn Fierro's Return

'Some verses flow on out of men like headstreams course through a canal. The same holds true for mine, old pal- though I can't say they're worth a lick, they still pour out of me real quick, like sheep es…

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Remy Attig
Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas

"Building on sociolinguistic understandings of the intersections of language, nation, and identity, this book examines the literatures of the unstandardized languages of Spanglish, Portuänol, and Jud…

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Aaron Colton
Writing Through Writer's Block

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan…

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Julie Iromuanya
A Season of Light

"A tightly bound Nigerian family living in Florida [navigates] wounds passed down from generation to generation"--

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Sarah Ruden, Sylvia Plath
I Am the Arrow

Translator Sarah Ruden has long had a passion for Sylvia Plath's poetry. In this reconsideration of Plath's genius, Ruden argues that Plath is more than a consummate mythmaker; the poet herself takes on t…

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Marco Medugno,
Literature of the Somali Diaspora

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature.Building on the latest scho…

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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Caroline Hovanec
Notes on Vermin

"Vermin-rats, cockroaches, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other pests-are, to most people, objects of disgust. And vermin metaphors, likening human beings to these loathed creatures, appear in the ugliest …

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Black Feminist Theories

An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across tran…

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Rafael Walker
Realism After the Individual

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.Reali…

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