"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Margaret Atwood’s fiction and poetry. Addresses topics including gender, the......more

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communicat......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaim......more

Imagine a world where moral philosophy breathes without the constraints of dogma, where the echoes of Ralph Waldo Emerso......more

Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a versatile Jamaican American writer and poet and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissanc......more

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion, ......more

Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970 is an exploration of a number of Sout......more

Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970 is an exploration of a number of Sout......more

A landmark collection of the work of pioneering Chicana scholar, Norma Alarcóoacute;n. Forced by Circumstance gathers in......more

Hyperglossia and the Novel: The Production of (Non) Space theorizes hyperglossia as a critical threshold in literary, ph......more

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet’s extraordinary work. Includes unpublish......more

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between two rela......more

Unearth the vibrant tapestry of 19th century literature through a lens that intertwines Jewish cultural studies with the......more

In the shadowed corridors of early American history, where literary giants once roamed, emerges a narrative that has bee......more

In the quiet parlours and bustling ballrooms of Regency era England, a literary genius quietly reshaped the narrative of......more

American poets were at the core of the modernist movement, a position largely contingent on their being in Europe. But w......more

The book presents twentieth-century Polish literature as an example of Eastern European modernism while foregrounding th......more

This anthology showcases poems by writers who honor the virtues of the original New York School poets: Frank O’Hara, Joh......more

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wall......more

Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh examin......more

A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply i......more

A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply i......more

A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile......more

Martha H. Patterson’s The Harlem Renaissance Weekly offers a groundbreaking study of the Black literary renaissance that......more

In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for......more

In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for......more

This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusi......more

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Pri......more

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Pri......more

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With perceptions of reality in the 21st-century increasingly seen as pluralistic and a matter of interpretation, this op......more

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st -century metaphors and images used to communicat......more