Drawing on poetry, novels, short stories, children's books, and essays, Nagueyalti Warren explores the spiritual aesthetic that informs Alice Walker's creative output. This book contends that Walker instills metaphysical elements throughout her writing, including the Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple.
This book collects, for the first time, Colm Tóibín's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Tóibín brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.Known for his acuity and originality, Tóibín is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this ......
This book collects, for the first time, Colm T¾ibÝn's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, T¾ibÝn brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.Known for his acuity and originality, T¾ibÝn is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this ......
Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with ......
Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with migrants, ......
Kathryn Hume explores the landscape of American fiction since 1960 and the disenfranchisement she discovers there to extricate the thread of a literary movement that she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream.In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a ......
''The problem of Poe's place in American culture cannot be settled canonically, since, unlike the works of Melville or Hawthorne, Poe's texts have not been primarily transmitted through the schools. Indeed, at its most radical level, the failure of criticism to account for the remarkable diversity of Poe's influence leads one to question the ......
In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture. Stein embraces subjects as various as his father's ......
American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth century to modern times.
