Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge

In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading scholars examine the African American author's literary corpus and major themes, ideas, and influences. The essays explore virtually all of Johnson's writings: each of his novels, his numerous short stories, the range of his nonfiction essays, his many book reviews, and even several unpublished works.

These essays engage Johnson's work from a variety of critical perspectives,...

An indispensable collection of essays that should inspire new interest in Joyce s poetry, both for its own sake and for its relationship to the prose works. Patrick A. McCarthy, coeditor of theJames Joyce Literary Supplement

The authors demonstrate collectively that the lyric poems reward and will continue to reward greater attention than they have hitherto received. The collection as a whole should inspire the next generation of Joyceans to foregroundChamber MusicandPomes Penyeachin their scholarship and in their teaching. Victor Luftig, coeditor ofJoyce and...

Ralph Ellison once said, -We're only a partially achieved nation.- In The New Territory, scholars show how clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the possibilities of America in the twenty-first century. Indeed, Ellison in these new essays appears more and more to be a cultural prophet of twenty-first century America. As literary scholar Ross Posnock states, -If in our global, transnational age the renewed promise of cosmopolitan democracy has emerged as an animating ideal of popular political, and academic culture, this is a way of saying that we are only...