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“In vain I tried to tell you”
A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, “In vain I tried to tell you” showcases the methodology…
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A Great Plains Reader
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that…
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A Place on Earth
A Place on Earth is an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of…
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A Sender of Words
Author of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and Native studies, John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) was born in Illinois, taught for many years at…
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After the Death of Literature
Calling Samuel Johnson the greatest literary critic since Aristotle, Richard B. Schwartz assumes the perspective of that quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters to examine the critical and theoretical literary developments…
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Agnes’s Final Afternoon
Agnès’s Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera’s novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnès steps out of the world of…
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An Idea of Dante
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. This volume brings together all of Gianfranco Contini’s essays on Dante. The collection opens with his Introduction to the Rime of Dante, a text he wrote…
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Back to Peace
“The focus of this volume of essays on the literary representation of the aftermaths of wars over time and place is very significant. Although there have been many studies of…
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Barack Obama: Invisible Man
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. BARACK OBAMA: INVISIBLE MAN is a provocative examination of President Barack Obama and his legacy. Masciotra contends that most Americans,…
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Beginning ethnic American literatures
Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the…
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Brother Bill’s Bait Bites Back and Other Tales from the Raton
Much of the literature about northeastern New Mexico depicts range wars, bandits, labor union strife, and Indian depredations. This collection of twelve modern folktales describes events that never made headlines…
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Chicago
Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling’s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City’s people and culture—its colorful language,…