Product Description: This study of all the major narrative works of Thomas Pynchon ("V", "The Crying of Lot 49", "Gravity's Rainbow", "Vineland") and his early fiction is an attempt to describe the narrative mechanisms that produce the uncertainty and ambiguity noted by all of Pynchon's critics...read more

Product Description: Rereading Allegory takes the form of an exploration of a new consensus in genre theory. Following the comments of theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Fredric Jameson, genre is questionable as an 'essential' textual quality. Generic identity is taken to assume necessary generic differences; discursive plurality is posited as the context for generic singularity...read more

Product Description: Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism...read more

Offers an account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity. The author outlines how exceptionalism has contributed to the evolution of the US as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day. (view table of contents)

The book explores what characterises a ‘good life’ and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism.

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The contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of 'post-colonial' theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America -- for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literatures from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism -- from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam. In this way the contributors explore key questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorised within 'American literature' if writing on one side of the border, but as 'Canadian' and 'post-colonial' if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation -- issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum.

Discusses how English studies can enhance its interdisciplinary potential by incorporating new media into its teaching.

Product Description: A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

Product Description: Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today.

Product Description: The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America’s most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenor’s related works...read more