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Uncanny Fidelity

Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

by James Newlin

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361150

Pub Date: December 2023

Format: Paperback

How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean

Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years

by Ery Shin

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817361242

Pub Date: December 2023

Format: Paperback

Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions

The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination

by Michael Golston

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817361006

Pub Date: November 2023

Format: Paperback

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts

Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context

Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910

by Leslie Diane Myrick and Gary Scharnhorst

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817361044

Pub Date: November 2023

Format: Paperback

The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrations

Anything but Novel

Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative

by Jennie Irene Daniels

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361075

Pub Date: November 2023

Format: Paperback

The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes

Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance

Edited by Brian Unger

by Philip Whalen

Price: $44.95

ISBN: 9780817360139

Pub Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest

Cather Among the Moderns

by Janis P. Stout

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361235

Pub Date: August 2023

Format: Paperback

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social...

Glancing Visions

Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Zachary Tavlin

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360894

Pub Date: June 2023

Format: Paperback

How the “glance” rather than the “gaze” in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism

Bold Conscience

Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

by Joshua R. Held

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361112

Pub Date: June 2023

Format: Paperback

How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action

Playing House in the American West

Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839–1987

by Cathryn Halverson

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817360825

Pub Date: June 2023

Format: Paperback

Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life

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