Product Description: " In 1934, Nancy Cunard published Negro: An Anthology, which brought together more than two hundred contributions, serving as a plea for racial justice, an exposé of black oppression, and a hymn to black achievement and endurance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book addresses the urgent need for rigorous and creative examination of how new theoretical principles, sociocultural investments, and pedagogical technologies inform classroom teaching. Written by current and former graduate and faculty instructors of English at the University of Texas at Austin―a department that has been centrally involved in national controversies over literary multiculturalism, the politics of writing instruction, and the development of academic computer technology―this collection constitutes a uniquely situated engagement with the most pressing contemporary questions in English studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Death and dying once seemed definitive, public, and appropriate; but the Industrial Revolution, the Great War, and the reenvisioning of reality by scientists and philosophers destabilized cultural norms. In Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise Friedman traces the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history, and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Up to now, Samuel Beckett has been considered largely as a commentator on the human condition and on the angst of our time, and as a novelist and a playwright who undermines and manipulates the metaphysical assumptions and conventions that underlie language and representation...read more

This compact, detailed introduction to the great American writer's life and work presents Faulkner as a man obsessed with artistic achievement, driven--as are his characters--toward anticipated success

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