Lisa Tyler is professor of English at Sinclair Community College and the editor of
Teaching Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.”
70 Ebooks von Linda Wagner-Martin
Lisa Tyler: Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: A History of American Literature
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT
Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and De Lillo, A …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: A History of American Literature
* The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century
* Covers drama, poetry, fiction, …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: John Steinbeck
This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanfo …
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James A. Crank: Understanding Sam Shepard
An ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwright
Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, …
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Carolyn A. Durham: Understanding Diane Johnson
Understanding Diane Johnson is a biographical and critical study of a quintessential American novelist who has devoted forty-five years to writing about French and American culture. Johnson, who was …
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Robert Ward: Understanding James Leo Herlihy
Understanding James Leo Herlihy is the first book-length study of one of America’s most neglected post-war writers. Herlihy (1927-1993), an occasional actor, made his professional mark in life as a p …
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Brenda Murphy: Understanding David Mamet
Understanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet’s plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the …
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Jennifer Larson: Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks
Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks is a critical study of a playwright and screenwriter who was the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks is also the reci …
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Michael S. Collins: Understanding Etheridge Knight
Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well …
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William C. Boles: Understanding David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang is best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won a 1988 Tony Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he has written the Obie Award-winners Golden Child and FOB, as …
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Earl G. Ingersoll: Understanding Steven Millhauser
An exploration of the thematic interests and narrative strategies of a contemporary American master of fiction
Earl Ingersoll introduces the fiction of Steven Millhauser, whose distinguished career …
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Joseph Dewey: Understanding Michael Chabon
An exploration of Chabon’s career-long fascination with the consolations—and dangers—of the imagination
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has emerged as one of the most daring writers of …
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€42.99
Thomas Fahy: Understanding Truman Capote
A new direction for Capote studies that reconsiders the author’s place in literary criticism, the canon, and the classroom
Truman Capote—along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and Breakfast …
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Jan Furman: Toni Morrison’s Fiction
In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 co …
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Kathleen Drowne: Understanding Richard Russo
In Understanding Richard Russo Kathleen Drowne explores the significant themes and techniques in Richard Russo’s seven novels, one memoir, and two short story collections, including the 2002 Pulitzer …
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Derek C. Maus: Understanding Colson Whitehead
Although 2002 Mac Arthur Fellowship recipient Colson Whitehead ardently resists overarching categorizations of his work, Derek C. Maus argues in this volume that Whitehead’s first six books are …
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John Lang: Understanding Ron Rash
In this first book-length study of Ron Rash’s fiction and poetry, John Lang explores the nature and scope of Rash’s achievements, introducing readers to the major themes and stylistic features of his …
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Timothy W. Galow: Understanding Dave Eggers
Understanding Dave Eggers surveys the work of one of the most celebrated American authors of the twenty-first century and is the first book-length study incorporating Eggers’s novels, short-story col …
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Henry Veggian: Understanding Don DeLillo
Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half-century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Pr …
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Matthew Luter: Understanding Jonathan Lethem
Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the Nationa …
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Catherine Seltzer: Understanding Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy’s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina …
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Jennifer Ann Ho: Understanding Gish Jen
Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a ‚typical American‘ writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of …
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Seema Kurup: Understanding Louise Erdrich
In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe peopl …
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Gerald Alva Miller, Jr.: Understanding William Gibson
A study of the science fiction author who popularized the concept of cyberspace
Gerald Alva Miller Jr.’s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gib …
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James W. Coleman: Understanding Edward P. Jones
A comprehensive survey of the works of an acclaimed African American writer
In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones’s award-winning works as well as the significant influe …
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Carl Rollyson: Understanding Susan Sontag
A comprehensive account of the author’s entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries
With the publication of Susan Sontag’s diaries, the development of her career can now be eva …
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Douglas Keesey: Understanding Chuck Palahniuk
An introduction to the fictions of the Fight Club author, who is both loved and loathed
Ever since his first novel, Fight Club, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been …
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Jeannette E. Riley: Understanding Adrienne Rich
The study of the full career of an award-winning writer who evolved from traditional to radical
Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of …
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Jennifer Larson: Understanding Walter Mosley
A survey of an award-winning author’s extensive corpus written across a broad range of genres
Walter Mosley is perhaps best known for his first published mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, which becam …
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Russell Brickey: Understanding Sharon Olds
A thorough examination of the author’s deeply personal and often-controversial poetry
Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s major themes, characters, life, and caree …
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William Demastes: Understanding John Guare
A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genres
John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last …
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€42.99
Olivia Carr Edenfield: Understanding Andre Dubus
An overview of a canon influenced by military service, faith, and a life-changing accident
Andre Dubus (1936–1999), the author of short stories, novellas, essays, and two novels, is perhaps best kn …
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Steven Frye: Understanding Larry McMurtry
An inviting, detailed analysis of the work and characters created by this Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
Best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award–winning s …
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Geoff Hamilton: Understanding Gary Shteyngart
A survey of the Russian-born American author’s work and themes questioning identity, politics, and multiculturalism
Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart‘ …
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Amanda M. Page: Understanding Chang-rae Lee
The first study that traces the career of an author who pushes against formal and thematic boundaries
In Understanding Chang-rae Lee, Amanda M. Page provides the first critical survey of the work o …
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Alexander John Engebretson: Understanding Marilynne Robinson
A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction
Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson’s fiction and essays to date, prov …
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Maggie McKinley: Understanding Norman Mailer
The first book of literary criticism to examine this Pulitzer Prize winner’s entire body of work
As a renowned novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, speaker, aspiring politician, filmmaker, …
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D. Quentin Miller: Understanding John Edgar Wideman
A complete overview of an innovative and analytical author who rose from poverty
Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the mo …
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Julia H Lee: Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston
The first book-length work to examine the entirety of Kingston’s unique literary career
Maxine Hong Kingston is known for using a distinctive blend of autobiography, fantasy, and folklore to explor …
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Frederic Svoboda: Understanding John Updike
A close look at the extraordinary literary achievements of a popular and prolific American author
The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popu …
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Danielle N. Johnson: Understanding Lee Smith
A comprehensive treatment of the life and work of this award-winning feminist Appalachian writer
Since the release of her first novel, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, in 1968, Lee Smith has pub …
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Ariana E. Vigil: Understanding Francisco Goldman
The first book-length study of a writer whose work has been shaped by his unique heritage
Award-winning writer and journalist Francisco Goldman is the author of novels and works of nonfiction and i …
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David Deutsch: Understanding Jim Grimsley
The first book-length study of an influential voice in contemporary queer American literature
Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in a variety o …
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Bryant Mangum: Understanding Alice Adams
An illuminating study of an award-winning writer who captured the complex challenges twentieth-century women faced in their struggle for independence
In Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum exa …
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Donna M. Bickford: Understanding Marge Piercy
An examination of form and theme in Piercy’s acclaimed poetry, fiction, and nonfiction
Grounded in feminism, political activism, and Jewish spirituality, Marge Piercy’s work includes more than thir …
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James A. Crank: Understanding Randall Kenan
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writer
Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collect …
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Marc Dudley: Understanding James Baldwin
An analysis of the ground-breaking author’s vision and thematic concerns
The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in th …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway
The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as America’s premier modernist writer. These essays, all written specially for this collection, plumb …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Linda Wagner-Martin’s Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a twenty-first century story. Using cultural and gender studies as contexts, Wagner-Martin brings new information to the story of the Alabama judge’s …
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Linda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Wagner-Martin: Sylvia Plath
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. …
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Linda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Wagner-Martin: Sylvia Plath
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. …
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€55.88
Linda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Wagner-Martin: The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism
The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to mod …
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Linda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Wagner-Martin: The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism
The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to mod …
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€45.08
Linda Wagner-Martin: Sylvia Plath
Linda Wagner-Martin’s emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer. In keeping with the critic’s early ground-breaking work on American poet William Carlos Williams, she …
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€22.50
Linda Wagner-Martin: Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors …
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Wagner-Martin Linda Wagner-Martin: Hemingway’s Wars
This is a study of the ways various kinds of injury and trauma affected Ernest Hemingway’s life and writing, from the First World War through his suicide in 1961.Linda Wagner-Martin has written or …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: The Life of the Author
THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR MAYA ANGELOU
DISCOVER THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MAYA ANGELOU WITH A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS
The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: The Life of the Author
THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR MAYA ANGELOU
DISCOVER THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MAYA ANGELOU WITH A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS
The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman’s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of man …
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Linda Wagner-Martin: Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway
The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as America’s premier modernist writer. These essays, all written specially for this collection, plumb …
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€48.52
Linda Wagner-Martin: Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
Still the most popular of Hemingway’s books, The Sun also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. The text provides a way for …
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Mr John Steinbeck: Pearl
THE PEARL is Steinbeck’s flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds ‚the Pearl of the world‘ he believes that his life will be magically …
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Lisa Tyler: Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve …
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€25.00
Linda Wagner-Martin: Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the …
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€24.60
Linda Wagner-Martin: Toni Morrison
A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition prov …
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€24.60
Miriam B. Mandel: A Companion to Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon
New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway’s groundbreaking non-fictional work.
Published in 1932,
Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his …
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