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Frank Lentricchia
A beautiful stranger from Italy appears in sleepy Utica, N.Y., carrying a deadly secret that goes back generations. Her movements through the city ensnare a young couple and their extended…
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An ideal entrance into the fictional world of the novelist described as the greatest unknown writer in America. This thrilling selection of Lentricchia’s fiction showcases much of his best work…
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A collection that introduces and celebrates Frank Lentricchia’s career with essays by Philip Tinari, Kit Wallingford, Vince Passaro, Jody McAuliffe, Fred L Gardaphe, Thomas Hove, Jennifer Wellman, Nicholas Birns, Andrew…
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This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical…
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An issue of South Atlantic Quarterly.
A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.
An American adventure in the Antonioni vein, visually rich and emotionally mysterious.
An unusual, deft, often piercing meditation on storytelling, ethnicity, and the Italian/American experience.
A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded…
The unsolved murder of Fred Morelli, in Utica, New York, in 1947, comes to the fore over 60 years later when 15-year-old Angel, hacker extraordinaire, has his guitar smashed by…
This is a flip book with two novels: A Place In The Dark braids history, fiction and politics. It is set in Utica with substantial passages of painful, site-specific memories…
Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC – each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the…
In Ariel and the Police, Frank Lentricchia searches through the totalizing desires for power that have built and help to maintain tangible and intangible structures of confinement and purification within…
White Noise was Delillo’s breakthrough book and has received much critical acclaim. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach Delillo’s important contemporary work.
A study of the four major American modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot) in various historical environments (literary, philosophical, gender relations, the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given…
Thomas Lucchesi Jr, is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life - because grief alone…
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
A midwestern college professor finds a rationale for a life lived with literture by embarking on a quest for the secret meaning of Melville’s, MOBY DICK.
Criticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia’s provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals. –Frederic…
Frank Kermode
Includes essay on Botticelli that traces the artist’s sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting.
Frank Lentricchia,Stanley Hauerwas
Dissenting voices provide a thought-provoking alternative to the apparently overwhelming American public approval of the US military response to the September 11 attacks, both at home and abroad
Deals with patriotism and pacifism, justice and revenge. Critiquing government policy, citizen apathy, and societal justifications following the attacks, this title presents a range of opinions on such issues as…
An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics. It presents a range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how…
This expanded edition features six new chapters, each of which provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions that the term raises, and then…
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Ben Xu
Since there can be no literary theory without a theorist, theorizing must be taken to mean some person-theorizing or theorizing with a certain personage. This book, using Edward W. Said…
