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The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (Paperback): Alfred Bendixen, Olivia Carr Edenfield The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (Paperback)
Alfred Bendixen, Olivia Carr Edenfield
R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction's inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.

The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (Hardcover): Alfred Bendixen, Olivia Carr Edenfield The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (Hardcover)
Alfred Bendixen, Olivia Carr Edenfield
R4,591 Discovery Miles 45 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction's inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.

Edith Wharton - New Critical Essays (Paperback): Alfred Bendixen, Annette Zilversmit Edith Wharton - New Critical Essays (Paperback)
Alfred Bendixen, Annette Zilversmit
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1992, this volume of essays celebrates the revival of Edith Wharton's critical reputation. It offers a variety of approaches to the work of Wharton and examines largely neglected texts. It differs from many other collections of Wharton criticism in its insistence that the entire body of Wharton's work deserves attention. This book will be of interest in those studying nineteenth century and American literature.

Edith Wharton - New Critical Essays (Hardcover): Alfred Bendixen, Annette Zilversmit Edith Wharton - New Critical Essays (Hardcover)
Alfred Bendixen, Annette Zilversmit
R4,610 Discovery Miles 46 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1992, this volume of essays celebrates the revival of Edith Wharton's critical reputation. It offers a variety of approaches to the work of Wharton and examines largely neglected texts. It differs from many other collections of Wharton criticism in its insistence that the entire body of Wharton's work deserves attention. This book will be of interest in those studying nineteenth century and American literature.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories & Poems (loa #356) (Hardcover): Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alfred Bendixen Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories & Poems (loa #356) (Hardcover)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alfred Bendixen
R1,308 R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Save R287 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Cambridge History of American Poetry (Paperback): Alfred Bendixen, Stephen Burt The Cambridge History of American Poetry (Paperback)
Alfred Bendixen, Stephen Burt
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life, detailing the variety of ways in which both public and private forms of poetry have met the needs of different communities at different times. The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America's democratic traditions.

The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (Hardcover): Alfred Bendixen, Judith Hamera The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (Hardcover)
Alfred Bendixen, Judith Hamera
R2,717 Discovery Miles 27 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.

The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (Paperback): Alfred Bendixen, Judith Hamera The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (Paperback)
Alfred Bendixen, Judith Hamera
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.

The Amber Gods and Other Stories (Paperback): Harriet Prescott Spofford The Amber Gods and Other Stories (Paperback)
Harriet Prescott Spofford; Volume editing by Alfred Bendixen; Alfred Bendixen
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A widely held vision of nineteenth-century American women is of lives lived in naive, domestic peace--the girls of "Little Women" making do until father comes home from the war. Nothing could be less true of Harriet Prescott Spofford's stories. In fact, her editor at the "Atlantic Monthly" at first refused to believe that an unworldly woman from New England had written them. Her style, though ornate by our 20th century standards, adds to its atmosphere, like heavy, Baroque furniture in a large and creepy house.
The title story presents a self-centered and captivating woman who ruthlessly steals her orphan cousin's lover. In "Circumstance," a pioneer woman returning home through the woods at night is caught by a panther; her husband, who has come to save her, can only watch from the ground as she sings for her life, pinned in a tree. A train engineer hallucinates again and again that he is running over his wife. And Mrs. Craven, who's a bit "weak" in the head, mindlessly repeats "Three men went down cellar and only two came up." These stories combine elements of the best ghost stories--timing, detail, and character --with just enough chill to make you think twice about turning out your lights at night.

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