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Perspectives on Barry Hannah is a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The... Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John...
Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as "a book about Negroes by a Negro," despite his request not to promote the book along such racial... The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and...
These ten essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1989 at the University of Mississippi, explore the... that Faulkner was a "liar" not just in his writing but also in his life has troubled many critics. They have explained his numerous...
Originally published in 1993, this was the first volume of essays devoted to the works of Cormac McCarthy. Immediately it was recognized... Explaining the world of William Faulkner's "Light in August" is the primary goal of this glossary. Like other books in this series, it...
William Faulkner claimed that it may be necessary for a writer to "rob his mother," should the need arise. "If a writer has to rob his... Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his...
This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the... Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African...
After the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. "I've got to... "I take...an outward route, arguing that the Agrarian project was and must be seen as a willed campaign on the part of one elite to...
Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and... Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic-book industry forever by introducing adult...
The essays in this volume address William Faulkner and the issue of race. Faulkner resolutely has probed the deeply repressed... In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into...
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its... A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors Download Plain Text...
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of... Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, conducted over a decade and a half, with the Brooklyn-born author of...
Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books... Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies provides insight into the most relevant issues...
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