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The premise of this little volume is that life is meant for meaning, and that meaning is found only through the commitments we make to those self-transcending goals and values which are true to our nature and talents as distinctive human beings.

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.

• Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry
• Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts
• Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States
• Provides...

Richard Gray is known as both a leading European scholar in American literature and a leading international scholar of the literature of the American South. Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature, a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself, Gray helps us to understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts--a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational.

To read a southern story, poem, or play, Gray says, is to access a multitude of texts: surrounding, indwelling, echoing voices...

In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a capitalist industrial economy, which was paralleled by a shift from the exchange of money in coin to the use of paper currencies, occurred simultaneously with an efflorescence of German-language literature and philosophy. Based on close readings of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Gray explores how this confluence led to a rich...

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.

• Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry
• Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts
• Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States
• Provides...

The novel follows the life of Cearl, a man with the white-mark born to a group of poor Mone farmers. Cearl has a good life with a wife and two children he deeply loves, but he finds himself...