Don DeLillo, author of twelve novels and winner of the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize, has begun to rival …
Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack Londons Racial Lives offers …
This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery OConnors fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of Wise Blood to the climactic moments of revelation …
This girl is a real novelist,"e;"e; wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood. She is …
What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from …
A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture booksbooks intended to educate or tell stories to young children. …
Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburgers indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow. Weisenburger …
As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil …
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents, Oscar Wilde once remarked. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything. Converying a …
Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post Gravity's Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon's representations of global power after the neoliberal …
