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Breaking Bounds invigorates the study of Whitman and American culture by presenting essays that demonstrate Whitman's centrality to the widest range of social, political, literary, sexual, and cultural discourses of his time and ours. Bringing together a distinguished group of cultural critics working in the fields of literature, American studies, Latin American studies, European studies, art history, and gay/lesbian/queer studies, the volume persistently opens new vistas in the ways we see Whitman and provides a model for the newest and brightest intellectual efforts associated with "cultural...
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Conversations with Eudora Welty

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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : January 1985

Seller ID: 521860

ISBN-13: 9780878052066

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (Literary Conversations Series)

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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : January 1994

Seller ID: 302658

ISBN-13: 9780878056521

Binding: Paperback

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Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their writing moves from conception to completion and how The Beet Queen, Tracks, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, and The Crown of Columbus have been enhanced by both their artistic and their matrimonial union.Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Native American worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, the...
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Dear Lupin...: Letters to a Wayward Son

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Publisher: Constable

Seller ID: 351682

ISBN-13: 9781472109729

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dr Panofsky & Mr Tarkington: An Exchange of Letters, 1938-1946

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Publisher: Princeton University Library : January 1974

Seller ID: 302679

ISBN-13: 9780878110193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

FIFTY COLORFUL YEARS

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Publisher: JOSEPH H. LOWENSTEIN AND SONS

Seller ID: 433536

ISBN-13: 9781199185990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Gertrude Stein Remembered

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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : October 1994

Seller ID: 265813

ISBN-13: 9780803242401

Binding: Hardcover

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Gertrude Stein Remembered, a collection of memoirs by twenty people who knew her well, adds invaluable details to our view of Stein as a writer and woman. The recollections, some previously unpublished, cover the entire span of her career: from her time as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College to her extraordinary years as a writer in Paris from 1903 through 1946. Among the memoirists are novelists Sherwood Anderson and Thornton Wilder, bookseller Sylvia Beach, Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, journalists T. S. Matthews, Therese Bonney, and Eric Sevareid, and photographers Carl Van Vechten a...
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Introducing Margaret Laurence's The stone angel :a reader's guide (Canadian fiction studies, No. 1)

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Publisher: Toronto : General Paperbacks : January 1989

Seller ID: 252749

ISBN-13: 9780773672468

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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JOHN COTTON DANA 1856-1929

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Publisher: MERRYMOUNT PRESS

Seller ID: 454583

ISBN-13: 9781199403100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

limited to 500 copies printed by D.B. Updike at Newark New Jersey.
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Margaret Atwood: Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series)

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Publisher: Ontario Review Press : September 1991

Seller ID: 295540

ISBN-13: 9780865380745

Binding: Paperback

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This gathering of 21 interviews with Margaret Atwood covers a broad spectrum of topics. Beginning with Graeme Gibson's "Dissecting the Way a Writer Works" (1972), the conversations provide a forum for Atwood to talk about her own work, her career as a writer, feminism, and Canadian cultural nationalism, and to refute the autobiographical fallacy. These conversations offer what Earl Ingersoll calls "a kind of 'biography' of Margaret Atwood the only kind of biography she is likely to sanction." Enlivened by Atwood's unfailing sense of humor, the interviews present an invaluable view of a disting...
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PERSONA GRATA

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Publisher: G.P. PUTNAM & SONS

Seller ID: 424322

ISBN-13: 9781199091161

Binding: Hardcover

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Reading Kafka: Prague, Politics, and the Fin de Siecle

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Publisher: Schocken Books : February 1990

Seller ID: 270792

ISBN-13: 9780805209457

Binding: Paperback

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Selected Letters of James Thurber

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Publisher: Penguin Books : November 1982

Seller ID: 492485

ISBN-13: 9780140063530

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks.
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The Anne Rice Reader

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Publisher: Ballantine Books : February 1997

Seller ID: 90257

ISBN-13: 9780345402677

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of the most fascinating essays, articles, and interpretations of bestselling author Anne Rice's complete works, by a variety of journalists and scholars. It includes a history of vampire literature, a professional dominatrix's examination of Rice's erotica, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film version of Interview with the Vampire. From the adventures of the Vampire Lestat to those of the Mayfair Witches, from the evocative historical epic Cry to Heaven to the uninhibited erotica of Exit to Eden and the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, The Anne Rice Reader presents a cap...
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The Girl I Left Behind

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Publisher: A Bantam Book

Seller ID: 183355

ISBN-13: 9780553202021

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper

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Publisher: Ticknor & Fields : January 1992

Seller ID: 126359

ISBN-13: 9780395562659

Binding: Hardcover

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The Mark Twain Anthology (LOA #199): Great Writers on His Life and Work (Library of America Mark Twain Edition)

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Publisher: Library of America : March 2010

Seller ID: 393578

ISBN-13: 9781598530650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Mark Twain, William Faulkner once observed, was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs. In this unique collection scores of these literary legatees from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius, among them: Jos Mart , Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken, Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, Sterling Brown, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburo Oe, Robert Penn Warren, Ursula Le Guin, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Gore Vidal, David Bradley, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, ...
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The Mississippi Delta and the World: The Memoirs of David L. Cohn (Library of Southern Civilization)

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Publisher: LSU Press : May 1995

Seller ID: 273388

ISBN-13: 9780807119914

Binding: Hardcover

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No one knew the Mississippi Delta more intimately or told its story more eloquently than did David L. Cohn (1894-1960). Between 1935 and 1960 he produced ten books including his best known, God Shakes Creation, later expanded into Where I Was Born and Raised -- and scores of articles and essays, including more than sixty such pieces in the Atlantic Monthly alone. One of his greatest frustrations, however, was not finding time to organize and prepare for publication the memoir he began in 1953.James C. Cobb discovered Cohn's memoir in 1985 in the David L. Cohn Collection at the University of Mi...
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The Norton Book of Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co Inc. : January 1996

Seller ID: 531801

ISBN-13: 9780393038767

Binding: Hardcover

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The World of Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

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Publisher: Africa World Pr : March 1995

Seller ID: 295597

ISBN-13: 9780865434592

Binding: Paperback

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Wallace Stegner: Man and Writer

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Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr : October 1996

Seller ID: 289571

ISBN-13: 9780826317568

Binding: Paperback

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The writings of Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) make him a major figure in Western American literature. These essays by some of the foremost commentators writing on the West today constitute the first attempt since his death to assess the diversity of Stegner's contributions to American intellectual life. The essayists engage his novels, short stories, memoirs, and biographies; the intersection between Stegner's fiction and history; and his role as an environmental essayist. These interpretative pieces are preceded by more personal accounts by his son Page Stegner, former students James R Hepworth...
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The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound

By: Abbott, Shirley

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Publisher: University of Arkansas Press : May 2006

Seller ID: 356778

ISBN-13: 9781557288219

Binding: Paperback

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This deeply felt memoir is a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mythology. In it a daughter reflects on the complicated and volatile love she and her father shared. Shirley Jean Abbott grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1940s and 50s and was the beloved daughter of Alfred Bemont Abbott, affectionately known as "Hat." Hat wasn't a bookmaker in the literary sense, even though he allowed Shirley's mother to believe as much while they were dating. Rather, his craft was gambling, and his business was horse racing.Despite the corruption, which put food on the table ...
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Category: BIOGRAPHY