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A Great Plains Reader
The 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 Sender of Words
Author 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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A Tawdry Place of Salvation
Through these essays—which deal with Bowles’s published as well as her unpublished work—Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention for an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth…
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Alfred Kazin’s America
Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin’s writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates –…
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An Enemy of the People
Dr. Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother, the mayor, conspires with local…
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Art Isn’t Easy
The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life.Confident that the musical is America’s greatest original…
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Chic Ironic Bitterness
A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture“This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of…
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Cold Warriors
Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West returns to familiar cultural forces—the West, anticommunism, and manliness—to show how they combined to suppress dissent and dominate the…
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