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Counternarrative Possibilities Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns
ISBN: PB: 9783593505541, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2017
360 pp., 21.4x14 cm
"Counternarrative Possibilities" reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of Ame...
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£36,00
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Literary Spinoffs Rewriting the Classics – Re-Imagining the Community
ISBN: PB: 9783593503110, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
500 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 colour plates
In "Literary Spinoffs", Birgit Spengler explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century American literary classics. By tapping into powerful, ingrained literary and...
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£56,50
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Literary Life of Things Case Studies in American Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9783593500065, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2014
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 colour plates
Material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Contemplating the aesthetic and nar...
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£37,00
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Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention
ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...
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£40,00
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