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“In vain I tried to tell you”
$29.95A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, “In vain I tried to tell you” showcases the methodology…
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A Great Plains Reader
$40.00The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that…
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A Place on Earth
$24.95A Place on Earth is an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of…
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A Sender of Words
$14.95Author of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and Native studies, John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) was born in Illinois, taught for many years at…
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After the Death of Literature
$32.00Calling Samuel Johnson the greatest literary critic since Aristotle, Richard B. Schwartz assumes the perspective of that quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters to examine the critical and theoretical literary developments…
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Agnes’s Final Afternoon
$14.99Agnès’s Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera’s novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnès steps out of the world of…
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An Idea of Dante
$25.00Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. This volume brings together all of Gianfranco Contini’s essays on Dante. The collection opens with his Introduction to the Rime of Dante, a text he wrote…
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Back to Peace
$35.00“The focus of this volume of essays on the literary representation of the aftermaths of wars over time and place is very significant. Although there have been many studies of…
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Barack Obama: Invisible Man
$21.99Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. BARACK OBAMA: INVISIBLE MAN is a provocative examination of President Barack Obama and his legacy. Masciotra contends that most Americans,…
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Beginning ethnic American literatures
$28.00Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the…
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Brother Bill’s Bait Bites Back and Other Tales from the Raton
$14.95Much of the literature about northeastern New Mexico depicts range wars, bandits, labor union strife, and Indian depredations. This collection of twelve modern folktales describes events that never made headlines…
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Chicago
$17.95Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling’s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City’s people and culture—its colorful language,…
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