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John Knowles's A Separate Peace
A collection of essays analyzing Knowles's classic work, including a chronology of his works and life.
Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor
Concerning the debate of classifying O'Connor as a religious writer, this book features essays by some of the leading scholars who have advanced the codification of O'Connor as a writer preoccupied with religious, and especially Catholic, themes.
Forever Pursuing Genesis
The title of this book, Forever Pursuing Genesis, derives from a statement that Vonnegut once made about the nature of the universe and humankind's place in it. This study applies that statement to the narrative themes that Vonnegut has treated in his career.
Four Modes; a Rhetoric of Modern Fiction
Pt. 1: Hiawatha's Fasting / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens ; Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous ; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; Ice Palace / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Spotted Horses / William Faulkner ; Oral Heritage of Written Narrative / Scholes & Kellogg ; Pt. 2: Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving ; Hollow of the three hills / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; My Kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Real Thing / Henry James ; Secret Room / Alain Robbie-Grillet ; Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe ; Blackberry Winner / Robert Penn Warren ; Pictorialism in Henry James's Theory of the novel / Viola Hopki...
New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye
Five essays focus on various aspects of the novel from its ideology within the context of the Cold War and portrait of a particular American subculture to its account of patterns of adolescent crisis and rich and complex narrative structure.
Impossibility Fiction
Impossibility fiction is an 'intergenre' that has recently been the resort of many writers searching for new ways of understanding and expressing the real world of the imagination, making use of fantasy, alternative history and science fiction. Coping with ideas that are both impossible and realistically constructed is the ultimate contemporary challenge of our technology. The chapters of this book move towards establishing appropriate readings that allow contemporary readers to negotiate unreality, a skill that the end of the millennium is making inevitably necessary. Such strategies have long been the preserve of literary and cultural study, and here a number of well-regarded scholars and ...
Education and Democracy
This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and Wisconsin’s “Experimental College” in the early twentieth century and his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era. The central question Meiklejohn asked throughout his life’s work remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free?
