Literary Criticism
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Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Reader's Companion [Hardback]
Jonathan S. Cullick (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813175928
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren is one of the best-known and most consequential Kentucky writers of the twentieth century and the only American writer to have won three Pulitzers in two different genres. All the King's Men, generally considered one of the fin... .... Learn More -
At the Origin of Middle-Class Rationality: Interpretations of Ulysses and the Sirens [Paperback]
Ruggero D’Alessandro (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771378
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
The Odyssey is rightly celebrated as a story that goes far beyond the scope of epic poetry. It is an open window to an entire era and its social systems as well as its theological, cultural, economic and political structures, while running simulta... .... Learn More -
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass [Hardback]
Neil Roberts (Editor); Paul Gilroy (Other); Bernard Boxill (Other); Margaret Kohn (Other); Angela Y. Davis (Other)
£45.00ISBN: 9780813175621
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such nota... .... Learn More -
Imaginative Conservatism: The Letters of Russell Kirk [Hardback]
James E. Person (Editor)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813175461
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Russell Kirk (1918--1994) is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of postwar American conservatism. His 1953 masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in the na... .... Learn More -
Once and Future Muse, The: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat [Paperback]
Nancy Kang (Author); Silvio Torres-Saillant (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822965428
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the P... .... Learn More -
New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega [Paperback]
James Fuerst (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780822965404
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
The first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period. It is als... .... Learn More -
Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture [Paperback]
Carmelo Esterrich (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780822965398
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapi... .... Learn More -
In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel [Paperback]
Aníbal González (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780822965046
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance... .... Learn More -
Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling [Paperback]
Frederick Luis Aldama (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780822964971
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with... .... Learn More -
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois [Hardback]
Nick Bromell (Editor); Charles Mills (Other); Lewis R. Gordon (Other); Anthony Reed (Other); James E. Ford (Other)
£45.00ISBN: 9780813174907
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors
Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of t... .... Learn More
