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The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the …
William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition
Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered the most reliable …
Don Delillo
Don DeLillo - winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize - is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and …
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women’s novels, namely Toni …
Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld
Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American …
Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity
The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many …
"Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus"
The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon - the product of a postwar-youth culture with roots in the cities …
Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction
Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction offers close readings of some thirty stories - Chopin's most significant short works - the majority of which have never received …
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms late modernist freakish aesthetics - a creative fusion of high and low themes and …
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms …