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The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to
appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously
unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal
significance of her writing even as they map new directions.
Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as
scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters,
American modernism, and women's writing. The book includes work on
Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison's
writing within today's currents of contemporary fiction; work which
draws together Morrison's "trilogy" of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise
alongside Dos Passos' USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to
such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as
work which offers a reading of "influence" that goes both
directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays
treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on
Morrison as writer of children's books and as speaker for
children's education. In addition, a "Teaching Morrison" section is
designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in
undergraduate classes. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison is
wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one
of the greatest American novelists.
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 daughter who, at seventeen, met her husband to be, Scott
Fitzgerald. Swept away from her stable home life into Jazz Age New
York and Paris, Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a
painter and she came close to being a ballerina. An evocative
portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional
conflicts, this study contains extensive notes and new photographs.
MARKET 1: Scholars and students of American literature; Women's
Studies; Modernism; Twentieth-Century Literature MARKET 2: General
reader
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 but
also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda
Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to
reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature
since its inception through the present day.
Wagner-Martin, a respected scholar of American modernism and
former president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society,
offers a comprehensive guide to the novel's genesis, plot,
background, themes, style, and critical reception. Each chapter
overviews a significant element of the novel and includes thorough
documentation. A bibliographic essay is also included.
A landmark of American literature, Hemingway's "A Farewell to
Arms" (1929) is one of the most widely read and studied novels of
the 20th century. Written by a respected scholar of American
modernism and former president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation
and Society, this reference is a comprehensive guide to the novel's
genesis, plot, background, themes, style, and critical reception.
Each chapter overviews a significant element of the novel and
includes thorough documentation. The volume closes with a
bibliographic essay, which provides summaries of current criticism
in such fields as gender and feminist theory, medical humanities,
and lesbian and gay studies.
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 many of
Whitman's poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and
those poems written during the last twenty years of his life.
Wagner-Martin's study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman
experienced. Starting with his early career as a printer and
journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass,
and his cultivation of the persona of the "working-class" writer.
In addition to establishing Whitman's attention to the Civil War
through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of
following Whitman's life through his poems. Utilizing contemporary
perspectives on class, Wagner-Martin provides a new reading of
Whitman's economic situation. This is an accessibly written
synthesis of Whitman's publication history bringing attention to
under-studied aspects of his writing.
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
modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader
to the essential history of the period including technology,
religion, economy, class, gender and immigration. These contexts
are woven of into discussions of many significant authors and texts
from the period. Wagner-Martin brings her years of writing about
American modernism to explicate poetry and drama as well as fiction
and life-writing. Among the authors emphasized are Ernest
Hemingway, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos,
William Carlos Williams, Mike Gold, James T. Farrell, Clifford
Odets, John Steinbeck and countless others. A clear and engaging
introduction to an exciting period of literature, this is the
ultimate guide for those seeking an overview of 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
modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader
to the essential history of the period including technology,
religion, economy, class, gender and immigration. These contexts
are woven of into discussions of many significant authors and texts
from the period. Wagner-Martin brings her years of writing about
American modernism to explicate poetry and drama as well as fiction
and life-writing. Among the authors emphasized are Ernest
Hemingway, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos,
William Carlos Williams, Mike Gold, James T. Farrell, Clifford
Odets, John Steinbeck and countless others. A clear and engaging
introduction to an exciting period of literature, this is the
ultimate guide for those seeking an overview of American Modernism.
Still the most popular book of Hemingway's to teach, The Sun Also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britains in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the bullfight festival, the characters wend their various narratives through the impressionistic colours of modern European life. The text provides a way for discussions of war, sexuality, personal angst, and national identity to be linked inextricably with the stylistic traits of modern writing. Both in theme and style, this novel has become synonymous with modernism and is often used as either a starting point for courses in modernism or as a representative modernist novel in broader survey courses. This volume, to be edited by one of Hemingway's most eminent scholars, will present the best in critical essays written about The Sun Also Rises.
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.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical
Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
The 1999 centennial of Ernest Hemingway's birth marks a time for the reevaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. The previously unpublished essays in this collection plumb unexplored details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and unexpected dimensions of the force of his literary accomplishments. The essays discuss biographical details of Hemingway's personal and professional life as well as describe the subleties of his character.
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 Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin
provides background and intertextual readings-particularly of the
way Hemingway's unpublished stories ("Phillip Haines was a writer")
and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing
interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and
provides background on Hemingway's treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald
and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his
connection to the poetry scene there-putting this in conversation
with Mary Hemingway's edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters
also illuminate the reception of Islands in the Stream and a new
way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden
of Eden. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival
research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingway's
wives.
Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the Second World War,
was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, and
has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the
great Southern writer. In part, this collection aims to tilt the
balance, forcing the reader beyond critical commonplaces through
asking challenging questions. The five essays assembled here
explore the tensions of race and gender apparent throughout the
novel. Judith Sensibar approaches the work through Faulkner's
relationship with Caroline Barr, the black woman who was his
primary caretaker in life; Judith Wittenberg offers an ecological
reading; John T. Matthews redefines the novel as a 'Southern'
experience; Minrose Gwin focuses on the spaces in the text occupied
by black women characters; and Thadious M. Davis charts further
complications of the black-white relationships that lie at the
heart of the novel.
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
provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an
artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works
of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as
among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the
past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion
of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of
Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on
Morrison's major literary contributions, but also trace her
significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the
consistency of Morrison's aesthetic and political visions.
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 Stanford
University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing
career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of
Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his
parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such as
The Red Pony. Intermixed with Steinbeck's journalism about
California's labor difficulties, his writing skill led to his 1930
masterpieces, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of
Wrath. The latter novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
in 1940, led eventually to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1962. He continued producing such wide-ranging works
as The Pearl, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and
Travels with Charley up to just a few months before his death in
1968.
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 but
also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda
Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to
reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature
since its inception through the present day.
Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the Second World War,
was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, and
has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the
great Southern writer. In part, this collection aims to tilt the
balance, forcing the reader beyond critical commonplaces through
asking challenging questions. The five essays assembled here
explore the tensions of race and gender apparent throughout the
novel. Judith Sensibar approaches the work through Faulkner's
relationship with Caroline Barr, the black woman who was his
primary caretaker in life; Judith Wittenberg offers an ecological
reading; John T. Matthews redefines the novel as a 'Southern'
experience; Minrose Gwin focuses on the spaces in the text occupied
by black women characters; and Thadious M. Davis charts further
complications of the black-white relationships that lie at the
heart of the novel.
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel and is now widely considered to be the most important of his longer works of fiction. Written in an accessible style by prominent scholars, this collection of essays provides helpful and valuable insight for new readers and Hemingway specialists alike. Each essay is devoted to a major aspect of the novel: Hemingway's use of humor, the literary and historical context of the book, the atypically modern character of Brett Ashley, and recent approaches to issues of sexuality in the novel.
The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering
19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes
will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or
as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68
volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October
1995. "The Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body
of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include
contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This
volume covers American poet Sylvia Plath.
In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling
study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work, beginning
with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel
God Help the Child. Wagner-Martin describes Morrison as an
inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career
by her role within families. Her study focuses on Morrison's use of
family in her narratives, particularly on the roles of mother and
child. Beginning with the paradigm of a good mother (Mrs. MacTeer)
in The Bluest Eye, set against women who are found wanting in their
mother roles, Morrison concentrates in various ways on emphasizing
these mother characters. Sometimes those roles are peripheral; more
often, they are central. In Sula, for example, the title character
has no interest in mothering, but she shows herself to be the
product of family disinterest; in Song of Solomon Morrison creates
what she terms an ancestor figure to give guidance to the young; in
Tar Baby Marie Therese continues that role. Beloved tackles many
dimensions of a mothers role. As Morrison continues to write her
varied and powerful novels, from Jazz and Paradise through Love, A
Mercy, and Home, the attention to judging the efficacy of mothering
grows. Finally, in God Help the Child, she attends to little else.
In Morrison's fictional world, drawing from the human and spiritual
forces in both Africa and the United States provides some hope of a
truly satisfying existence.
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 unexplored historical details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and often unexpected dimensions of the force of his literary accomplishment. Discussing biographical details of his personal and professional life along with the subtleties of his character, the text includes a number of fascinating photos and images.
Provocative and compulsively readable, lively, engaging, and brilliantly representative, The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States presents short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeces, peformance pieces, erotica, diaries, correspondence, and even a few recipes from nearly one hundred of our best women writers.
A revised and updated edition of a comprehensive biographical and
critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya
Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of
Angelou’s autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry
collections, whilst also exploring Angelou’s life as an African
American in the United States, her career as stage and film
performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights actions
of the 1960s, and her travels abroad in Egypt, Africa, and Europe.
In her discussion of Angelou’s methods of writing her stunning
autobiography, which began with the 1970 publication of I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings, Wagner-Martin writes about the influences of
the Harlem Writers Group (led by James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and
John O. Killens) as well as Angelou’s significant friendships
with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders from
both international and African American United States cultures.
Crucial concepts throughout include the role of oral traditions, of
song and dance, of the spiritualism of art based on religious
belief, of Angelou’s voiced rhythms and her polished use of
dialogue to convey more abstract “meaning.” Wagner-Martin shows
that, viewing herself as a global citizen, Angelou never lost her
spirit of adventure and discovery as well as her ability to
overcome. Named an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by Choice
in 2015, this new edition includes two new chapters on Angelou's
connections to Africa and on her final years.
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