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This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called ''a classic text of the American Renaissance.'' As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored by critics, in part because it is longer and less accessible than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass but also because it ......
Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction
In this pioneering study, Robin Lydenberg focuses upon the stylistic accomplishments of this controversial and experimental writer. In doing so, she skillfully demonstrates that the ideas we now recognize as characteristic of post-structuralism and deconstruction were being developed independently by Burroughs long ago.
''This may be the most brilliant book ever written on Mormonism. It is insightful, inspiring, and original and sure to become a landmark work on the subject.''--Richard L. Bushman, author of Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
''Seelye's version seems even funnier than the original, and also more moving, since Seelye's Huck Finn is even less sentimental about life and Tom Sawyer than Twain's Huck Finn. He is also more perceptive about black people than the original.'' -- Hughes Rudd, CBS News''Seelye has stitched together a whale of a book. Without reference to Twain's ......
Since the release of Rosemary's Baby in 1968, the American horror film has become one of the most diverse, commercially successful, widely discussed, and culturally significant film genres. Drawing on a wide range of critical methods---from close textual readings and structuralist genre criticism to psychoanalytical, feminist, and ideological ......
They were called ''frail sisters,'' ''fallen angels,'' ''filles de Joie,'' ''soiled doves,'' ''queens of the night,'' and ''whores.'' They worked the seamy brothels, saloons, cribs, streets, and ''hog ranches'' of the American frontier. They were the prostitutes of the post-Civil War West. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery details the destitute ......
Do look after my music! Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and ''look after'' the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music.The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents ......
''Stansell brings nineteenth-century New York's working women out of the shadows. . . . A brilliant and original book.''--Katha Pollitt ''Describing the specific moral and economic circumstances of individual female lives, Stansell makes vivid historical sense of what until now has been obscured by generalization, abstraction, and ......
A former student of architecture at the University of Illinois, Kanfer has developed a kinship with the rural regions of the Prairie State. He draws upon a rich background in art, design, and travel to focus on the unique qualities of the midwesten landscape, exhibiting an unusual sensitivity to composition, color, texture, and light. Kanfer ......
