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An historical and critical introduction to the Irish short story from George Moore, the founder of the genre, to Frank O'Connor, its most recent practitioner. The book is divided into two parts: Part I, an historical and critical introduction, and chapters on the four writers) Moore, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, and Daniel Corkery) who contributed most of the emerging short story tradition, and Part II, which includes a brief introduction on the major...
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This book explores the interrelationship between the option and experience of motherhood and the experience of mental breakdown as vividly communicated by 20th-century women writers. The focus is on three writers--Sylvia Plath, Marie Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood--but others are included, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emma Santos. Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness calls attention to the ways in which...
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Any books and innumerable articles have been published on the subject of ?Westerns? since 1960, but the emphasis has been almost entirely on Western movies. Not much attention has been paid to the fiction of and about the American West. This book begins with the assumption that the novel of the West is a sort of autobiography of the West and that the writing must be studied if we are to see what our fiction reveals about ourselves. In these eleven...
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"Pulpit politics discusses the manner in which nationalistic expression forged a new religious relevance to the American experience, and the extent to which these diverse styles of religious nationalism created and reflected tension in twentieth-century America."--BOOK JACKET. "Vinz identifies the form of American nationalism as the nationalism of messianism, but demonstrates that Protestant leadership throughout the twentieth century gave no consistent...
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This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of black fiction. In contrast to the black novel, the short story has hardly been given extensive criticism, let alone serious attention. The individual essays...
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"A sequel to Goldwater and Treves's classic Artists on Art ... lets us see modern art through the eyes of those who created it. Ashton brings together statements by over two hundred of the foremost modern artists from all over the Western world, describing their views of art and their own work."--Back cover.
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