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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Focusing on twelve American writers--including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Hart Crane--a renowned American literary critic discusses the greatest authors of American literature whose works make up what he calls the American sublime.
5) White girls
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Language
English
Formats
Description
Weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them--an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sparky Sweets, Ph.D. presents Thug Notes, the outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to sixteen of literature's most beloved classics - including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice and Things Fall Apart. Having already taught millions around the world, Dr. Sweets makes it easy to love and understand these important literary works. With hilarious character breakdowns, masterful analyses, witty observations, and eye-popping...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This book first published in 1923, provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature from the previous six years, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Dana, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. Eight of the essays were first published in the English Review 1918-19, but Lawrence continued to work on his material, with the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms...
Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 34
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1921, c1918
Language
English
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