Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of the indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"". Steven Weisenburger takes …
These nineteen original essays seek to recontextualize the subject of immortality, examining its influence as an ancient human aspiration while at the same time considering new …
Southern literature is often celebrated for its 'told' rather than 'written' qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and …
Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the …
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) earned his place in American literary history with Cane (1923), a brilliant modernist collage of fiction, poetry, and drama about black life in rural …
A simultaneously ecocritical and comparative study, ""New World Poetics"" plumbs the earthly depth and social breadth of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek …
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 …
Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that …
Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope, and frustration and tells a story about how …
Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson) and many not so famouswrote literature for children; many …
