Thomas King is one of North America's foremost Native writers, best known for his novels, including Green Grass, Running Water, for the DreadfulWater mysteries, and for collections of short stories su
Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has revolutionized the architecture of the short story. This collection of essays on Munro engages with literary geography, an emergent interd
War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become me
Henry Miller is a cult figure in the world of fiction, in part due to having been banned for obscenity for nearly thirty years. Alongside the liberating effect of his explicit treatment of sexuality,
The Cold War's end coincided with two developments that had profound impact on political and intellectual life during the 1990s and 2000s: the decline of postmodernism and the comeback of cultural plu
No scholarly work has yet addressed the topic of beginnings in American poetry in sufficient scope or detail or adequate theoretical background. Although issues of futurity have become more and more c
J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to
This book concerns the framed center in selected literary works of the 19th to 21st centuries. Such a center involves a critical passage bracketed by two halves of a text that feature language and/or
From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, some of the most famous works of American, English Canadian, and French Canadian literatur
J. M. Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction today, is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that
Moran (English, U. of Georgia) discusses not the physical aspects of the English colony, but the manner in which Raleigh advocated for it, particularly in his reports to the throne. A main goal is to
The Philadelphia monthly was published from January 1849 to 1852, and Nichols (English, Lancaster Bible College) examines how it catered to a growing number of Americans who strove to improve their ec
In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in whi
Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia, he cofounded Ulise
"FenceS" is the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America who, in August Wilson's hands, rises to the level of an epic hero. Deemed a generational
