American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre for American literature; and the way James and Faulkner; by writing within hermeneutic traditions of the modern American novel, explore further than any other writers the particular functions of the novelistic designs they inherited and transformed.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman contends that in the late fiction of James and Faulkner the search for knowledge of the self and others is presented as a metafictive issue of power, authority, and...
American Designs addresses three major literary critical issues: the hermeneutics of the novel genre; the intense importance of this genre f...
A prolific and enduringly popular author--and an icon of American fiction--Jack London is a rewarding choice for inclusion in classrooms from middle school to graduate programs. London's biography and the role played by celebrity have garnered considerable attention, but the breadth of his personal experiences and political views and the many historical and cultural contexts that shaped his work are key to gaining a nuanced view of London's corpus of works, as this volume's wide-ranging perspectives and examples attest.
The first section of this volume, "Materials," surveys the many...
A prolific and enduringly popular author--and an icon of American fiction--Jack London is a rewarding choice for inclusion in classrooms from middl...
A collection of essays which explore the cross cultural origins of the trickster in American literature. The trickster has appeared in such characters as Huckleberry Finn And Nanapush and can lead the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable.
A collection of essays which explore the cross cultural origins of the trickster in American literature. The trickster has appeared in such characters...