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An all-access ticket to the celebrated and wholly original mind of Mark Leyner, “one of the smartest and funniest humans since Aristophanes” (Jay McInerney) Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles Yu), “visionary” (Sam Lipsyte), and...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-12-03
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This book introduces the origin, development and current state of American nature writing. It organizes many representative authors and works of American nature writing into such categories as the influence of transcendentalism, the wilderness complex, the English...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-04-18
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A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes.
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes.
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-18
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In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-02
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The Wild West came alive under the pen of Edward Zane Carroll Judson, who wrote many of Americas best-loved “dime novels ”under the pseudonym Ned Buntline. From Buffalo Bill (whom Judson knew first-hand) to Wild Bill Hickok, these vivid tales...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2011-06-07
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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-13
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`The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,' said the Witch; `so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.'
A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-08
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`The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,' said the Witch; `so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.'
A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-08
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The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-02-06
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Walt Whitman called the Orient "The Past! the Past! the Past!" but East Asia was remarkably present for the United States in the twentieth century. Apparitions of Asia reads American literary expressions during a century of U.S.-East Asian alliances in which the Far...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-02-05
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Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-02-03
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The first professional classicist of African American descent, William Sanders Scarborough rose from slavery to become president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. Excelling at Latin and Greek, he crossed the color line both socially and intellectually with his entry...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-11-20
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This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-11-09
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In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-10-16
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In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-10-16
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Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-06-01
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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1999-08-12
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`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.'
(Joseph Conrad)
`Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.'
(Toru Dutt)
This...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1998-07-02
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