The Rise of Sensationalism in American Literature and Culture: 1620-1860 argues that the rise of the American tradition of sensationalism can be better understood in the transatlantic context. The Rise of Sensationalism i...Daugiau...
The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West. The book privileges transnational and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to understand how Western iconography has moved well beyo...Daugiau...
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to t...Daugiau...
This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller, from his earliest writing in the 1950s to those near the time of his death in February 2021, across the genres of his criticism and theorypoetry, fiction, drama, fi...Daugiau...
This book offers a systematic and comparative history of the evolution of literature in the Americas, from the beginning to the present day. It begins with an introduction that assesses the development of the field and then proceeds to a chapter on...Daugiau...
This is the first book of its kind to provide an analysis of the representation of Jews in American war novels throughout the long twentieth century. This study delineates the intricate relationship between Jews and wars. Are Jews depicted as draft...Daugiau...
This first full-length scholarly treatment of award-winning poet Jane Hirshfields work covers format and structure; three approaches to the poetry; Zen and the problem of desire; Hirshfields response to the more-than-human world and her warnings...Daugiau...
This book is the first to explore technoculture in all of Don DeLillos novels. From Americana (1971) to The Silence (2020), the American author anatomizes the constantly changing relationship between culture and technology in ov...Daugiau...
Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction offers a pragmatic and theoretically informed model for analyzing how humor and gender intersect in key U.S. texts, bringing much needed attention to the complex ways that humor can support and/or subvert reduct...Daugiau...
The Mercurial Mark Twains(s) examines the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by common readers, reviewers, and Twain scholars, as well as film and television adaptations. This study provides the first fine-grained h...Daugiau...
Norman Macleans A River Runs Through It: The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean or any of his works. Since the publication of A River Runs Through It in 1976, readers and critics have considered it to be one of t...Daugiau...
This book interrogates the discontinuous ripples of postmodernism within post-Cold War American literature and culture. The persistence of postmodern aesthetics within this period of succession underpins a reframing of what it means to come after...Daugiau...
This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the existentialist contr...Daugiau...
Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of su...Daugiau...
This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists m...Daugiau...
This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fictionRobert Penn Warrens All the Kings Men, Edwin OConnors The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammers The Gay Place...Daugiau...
This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the wordless novels of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (19051985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study ex...Daugiau...
This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller, from his earliest writing in the 1950s to those near the time of his death in February 2021 across the genres of his criticism and theory-poetry, fiction, drama, ficti...Daugiau...
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how th...Daugiau...
