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Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and… More

Traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. This book is suitable for law students and their teachers and for lawyers. More

Encompassing essays about identity and difference, tradition and transformation, region and nation, this collection adds a diverse set of voices to discussion about Sarah Orne Jewett, and 19th-century American women's writing. More

Focuses on five of Cather's female-centred, late fiction works - ""My Mortal Enemy"", ""Shadows on the Rock"", ""Old Mrs Harris"", ""Lucy Gayheart"" and ""Sapphira and the Slave Girl"". Carlin argues that these both revised conventional fiction forms and raised troubling questions with regard to… More

A study of gay male fiction written between 1945 and 1995. It features close readings of works by White, Isherwood, Andrew Holleran, Gore Vidal, Larry Kramer, and many more. More

Offers a forum for contemporary debates on Caribbean culture and its evolution. This book focuses on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies. It explores cross-cultural themes and issues across a range of disciplines that include literature, language, education, history and popular… More

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Uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. This title shows how Deaf artists and ASL performers have used and continue to use their art as a means to traverse the barriers between disenfranchisement and privilege. More

Analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction to subversive ends, developing distinctive delivery styles, and reconciling conflicting public and private roles. This book contributes to feminist efforts to incorporate women… More

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of… More

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of… More

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By adopting a Caribbean perspective through which to re-examine seventeenth- to nineteenth-century texts from the British canon, this collection of essays uncovers the ways in which the literature produced at the height of British imperialism was used to consolidate and validate the national… More

Glover's timely project emphatically articulates Haiti's regional and global centrality, combining vital 'big picture' reflections on the field of postcolonial studies with elegant close-reading-based analyses of the philosophical perspective and creative practice of a distinctively Haitian literary… More

This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni… More

The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire More

The number one bestseller from Former President Barack Obama More

The powerful, personal and iconoclastic memoir of David Wojnarowicz, AIDS activist, author and one of the most provocative artists of his generation. With a new introduction by Olivia Laing. More

Tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns and down forgotten roads, these two men will travel beyond myth and stereotype, revealing an America… More

…have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. This book examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout the 20th century. More

A reception history of the writings of Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden. More

This volume covers the canonical status of Catholic health care facilities in the province of New Brunswick in light of provincial government legislation. In March, 1992, the provincial health minister announced an overhaul of the health care system in New Brunswick. More

The seminal memoir from John Edgar Wideman, one of the standout black American writers of the modern age and winner of the 2017 Prix Femina Etranger More

The international bestseller that set the world on fire, told in full for the first time: Mohamedou Ould Slahi's unflinching account of his fourteen years of detention without charge in Guantanamo Bay More

The new international prizewinning non-fiction from John Edgar Wideman, one of the standout black American writers of the modern age and winner of the 2017 Prix Femina Etranger More

'Leave it to Scott-Heron to save some of his best for last . . . He's a real writer, a word man, and [The Last Holiday] is as wriggling and vital in its way as Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One' New York Times More

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In this collection recognized writers and scholars discuss and analyze Stephen King's contemporary works. The contributors comment on and critique numerous aspects of King's literature, including his take on violent criminals, his craft, and his use of the Gothic. More

In examining African-American slave narratives that were written in Arabic, this book presents an argument against Enlightenment theory that insists literacy and reason are not the exclusive property of Western culture. More

A gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicentre of New York's literary world, Elizabeth Stoddard has nonetheless been almost excluded from… More

A reading of the Randian corpus from contemporary feminist perspectives. The strategies of reading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, and provide a forum for a re-examination of feminism and its relationship to egoism, individualism and capitalism. More

The papers seek to advance the debate over literary canons in the USA, where political and ideological figures are beginning to use academic deliberation as an excuse to promote new code words, and cultural and religious terminologies have been drawn upon to embellish political-economic conflicts. More

Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary… More

This work investigates why James Dickey was able to be acclaimed as the most important poet of his time, and yet to disappear from assessments of contemporary poetic history between the '60s and the '70s. It covers Dickey's exploration of violence, the effect of the Vietnam War and more. More

Pynchon's California is the first book to examine Thomas Pynchon's use of California as a setting in his novels. Throughout his 50-year career, Pynchon has regularly returned to the Golden State in his fiction. With the publication in 2009 of his third novel set there, the significance of California… More

American Unexceptionalism examines a constellation of post-9/11 novels that revolve around white middle-class male suburbanites, thus following a tradition established by writers such as John Updike and John Cheever. Focusing closely on recent works by Richard Ford, Chang-Rae Lee, Jonathan Franzen,… More

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How politics really works and why it matters. More

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism. More

Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. More

Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. More

Proposes a fresh assessment of the artist, firmly re-establishing his place as a national figure in the canon of American painting More

A close critical look at the new Disney canon - using deconstruction as a critical lever to engage with the films themselves, and the wider issues they raise. More

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism. More

…biography, and musical analysis to shed light on Monk's music and on the jazz canon itself. This book shows how the work of this nonconformist composer emerged from the jazz world's fringes to find a central place in its canon. It considers how Monk's stature has grown, from the narrowly focused… More

This is the first book to explore the canonical narratives, stories, examples, and ideas that legal decisionmakers invoke to explain family law and its governing principles. Jill Elaine Hasday shows how this canon misdescribes the reality of family law, misdirects attention away from actual problems… More

Robert Lecker explores the ways in which these anthologies contributed to the formation of a Canadian literary canon, the extent to which this canon was tied to an ideal of English-Canadian nationalism, and the material conditions accounting for the anthologies' production. More

Robert Lecker explores the ways in which these anthologies contributed to the formation of a Canadian literary canon, the extent to which this canon was tied to an ideal of English-Canadian nationalism, and the material conditions accounting for the anthologies' production. More

Reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing popular representations of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers. More

Ten Most Wanted revises the canon of western American literature, examining neglected works by black cowboys, polygamous Mormon wives, and orphan children in logging camps, as well as works such s Ben Hur, Treasure Island and The Good Earth. More

This work brings together 12 essays by prominent Updike scholars to illuminate the achievement of the four Rabbit novels and demonstrate the importance of the Rabbit novels to Updike's canon and to 20th-century American literature as a whole. More

Presents an analysis of the origins of Catholic moral theology in the United States. This title traces the historical development of moral theology which offers a legal model of morality including an emphasis on canon law. More

This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals... More

This text traces the history of American stereotyping of Asians and how Euro-American ethnocentricity has limited most American authors' ability to represent fairly the Vietnamese in their stories. It seeks to reformulate the canon of writings in both countries. More

Viewed in it's context of upscale New York, the art circuit and "The New Yorker", the canon of Barthelme's work is an invaluble repository of the literary, philosophical, political and cultural ecology of his time. More

What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More

What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More

…the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century and discusses the genre's major figures, themes and developments. This comprehensive and stimulating introduction will enhance students' experience of reading and studying the canon of American fiction. More