Sari: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365770)
New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author. Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Her work blurs the boun...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781578065592)
American Literature -- Literary Criticism--> There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a...Loe edasi...
Arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, James Joyces Ulysses remains as much of a shocking and redemptive testament to the human condition as it was when it was first conceived in 1914. Following the events of a single day in D...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198999058)
This monograph challenges popular and critical orthodoxies about twentieth and twenty-first century literature and visual culture. It unearths a buried alternative history of the novel of the English-speaking world by demonstrating how stalled and i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807182338)
Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-cat...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Becketts work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of mans existence....Loe edasi...
Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately co...Loe edasi...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodger L. Tarr, Brent E. Kinser
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081472)
This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is an intimate glimpse into the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A collection of l...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855808001)
Counters universalist narratives of mainstream feminism by examining the power exerted by four white women writer-activists to shape American society from the 1860s to 1930s. White Womans Burden focuses on four American writer-activists...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246523)
Named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial bi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112224892)
As a conceptual framework, the Anthropocene has fostered transdisciplinary analyses of global anthropogenic impacts in diverse fields: Earth system sciences, conservation biology, and the environmental humanities. The transdisciplinarity of these an...Loe edasi...
Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders’ term ‘total pain’ has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person’s pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological...Loe edasi...
