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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short
Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have
assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by
literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics
argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American
writers is integral to the development of the short story in each
country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary
short story has attained. This collection provides original
analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as
some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted
to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter,
themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story
writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol,
Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short
stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard
Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates
populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more
important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these
essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture
share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures
are deeply intertwined.
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of
Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight,
draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by
scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first
make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen and William
Shakespeare, carefully building the argument that both men offer
profound insight into the hungry human heart. Springsteen, they
argue, uses many Shakespearean themes such as the ties of blood and
friendship, commitment to country and community, the monsters of
lust and jealousy, vanity and power, and the hopeful pursuit of
real love. These themes lift his music beyond stories of characters
casing the Promised Land of America to universal matters of the
heart's truth wherever it is found. Then, the twelve chapters of
Reading the Boss, written by established and emerging scholars,
engage readers both critically and enthusiastically with central
issues in Bruce Springsteen's writing, as they read his
explorations of gender, place, religion, philosophy, and other
literary texts, notably the works of Walker Percy and Flannery
O'Connor. Driven by arguments grounded in a wide variety of
theoretical and critical positions, these essays offer a
comprehensive and accessible discussion of Springsteen's oeuvre,
from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to Working on a Dream that
will appeal to both specialist readers and Springsteen fans alike.
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of
Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight,
draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by
scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first
make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen and William
Shakespeare, carefully building the argument that both men offer
profound insight into the hungry human heart. Springsteen, they
argue, uses many Shakespearean themes such as the ties of blood and
friendship, commitment to country and community, the monsters of
lust and jealousy, vanity and power, and the hopeful pursuit of
real love. These themes lift his music beyond stories of characters
casing the Promised Land of America to universal matters of the
heart's truth wherever it is found. Then, the twelve chapters of
Reading the Boss, written by established and emerging scholars,
engage readers both critically and enthusiastically with central
issues in Bruce Springsteen's writing, as they read his
explorations of gender, place, religion, philosophy, and other
literary texts, notably the works of Walker Percy and Flannery
O'Connor. Driven by arguments grounded in a wide variety of
theoretical and critical positions, these essays offer a
comprehensive and accessible discussion of Springsteen's oeuvre,
from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to Working on a Dream that
will appeal to both specialist readers and Springsteen fans alike.
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