Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Brown girl, brownstones Brown girl, brownstones Paule Marshall "Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious … OL15829612W
The Haunted dusk The Haunted dusk Charles L. Crow,Howard Kerr,John William Crowley Contents: Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story • essay by G. Richard Thompson [as by G. R. Thompson ] Phantasms and Death in Poe's Fiction • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy Philanthropy and… OL16025981W
On moral fiction On moral fiction John Gardner Argues that great moral fiction has open-mindedly tested human values in an attempt to discover what best promotes human fulfillment and that current fiction fails to do so and, thus, undermines our … OL2015044W
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán Ramón María del Valle-Inclán Roberta L. Salper "This book is a collection of eleven essays devoted to the work of Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Long the recipient of critical analyses from various perspectives, Valle-Inclan's writing has ne… OL21413005W
Narrative fiction Narrative fiction Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan provides a synthesis of contemporary approaches to narrative fiction, consideri… OL3260446W
Astrid Lindgren Astrid Lindgren Eva-Maria Metcalf In this first book-length study intended for American readers of the Swedish author - and the first to compare story line, character development, and narrative style in the original Swedish and in En… OL3486211W
Kerouac's spontaneous poetics Kerouac's spontaneous poetics Regina Weinreich "While a legend has developed about the man Jack Kerouac, there has not been a thorough study of what he wrote. This is the first book to explore his place in American literature by establishing the … OL4787516W
Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith Paula Gallant Eckard "Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power h… OL5957296W
Contemporary fiction Contemporary fiction Jago Morrison The last twenty-five years have seen an extraordinary renaissance in contemporary fiction in the English language. Jago Morrison's Contemporary Fiction provides a much-needed accessible introduction … OL5968113W