American Literature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Caroline Hovanec
Notes on Vermin

"Vermin-rats, cockroaches, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other pests-are, to most people, objects of disgust. And vermin metaphors, likening human beings to these loathed creatures, appear in the ugliest …

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Andrea Long Chu
Authority

Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-wi…

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Chris Pavone
The Doorman

'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILD 'The kind of novel that wins book awards.' STEPHEN KINGA pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights…

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Ferdowsi,
Shahnameh

A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia's greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi's work protected the Pe…

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Chris Pavone
The Doorman

'Sensationally good.' LEE CHILDA pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats .Chicky Diaz is everyone's fav…

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Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together

"A collection of the inimitable writer's essays, stories, and articles from her early days at The Village Voice through her time at The New Yorker "-- Provided by publisher.

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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Colm Tóibín
On Elizabeth Bishop

"This book offers the reader a luminous meditation on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. It focuses, among other things, on the restraint of her style and the power of the unsaid in her work. But more than t…

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Amy L Blair
Tasting and Testing Books

"In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newe…

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Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historic…

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Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historic…

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The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies' Home Journal to Vogue this diverse collection examines how the nation's First Lady has become an important cultural icon wit…

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Susan Farrell
Vonnegut's War

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Fiveis widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with …

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Katie Mitchell
Prose to the People

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an o…

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Marcia Douglas
The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive , which continues Marcia Douglas' &qu…

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We Are Nature Defending Itself

In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging w…

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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Alicia Upano
Everything to the Sea

Part riveting love story, part coming-of-age tale, Everything to the Sea is a breathtaking debut novel spanning years and shores after a sudden tsunami devastates the island of Hawai'i and cuts short a yo…

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John Updike,
Selected Letters of John Updike

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS' CHOICE • The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers---a remarkable outpouring over …

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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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