The first anthology to do full justice to the vast range of postwar American innovations in the art of fiction, "Postmodern American Fiction" presents a deep and wide collection of short fiction, novel excerpts, cartoons, hypertexts, creative nonfiction, and theoretical writings by 68 writers, ranging from Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs to David Foster Wallace and Kathy Acker.
The first anthology to do full justice to the vast range of postwar American innovations in the art of fiction, "Postmodern American Fiction" presents...
The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the time of Poe.
The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the tim...
A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of America's favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn "A boldly revisionist reading of Twain's Huckleberry Finn...Twain's masterpiece emerges as a compelling depiction of nineteenth-century troubles still all too familiar in the twenty-first century" (Booklist, starred review). In the "groundbreaking" (Dallas Morning News) Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern readers have misunderstood Huckleberry Finn for decades....
A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of America's favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn<...
