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The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy's work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.
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Mark Osteen
This work reads Ulysses from a number of different economic perspectives as it also moves toward an analysis of the role of the reader in the economics of interpreting Joyce’s…
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How many layers of artifice can one artwork contain? How does forgery unsettle our notions of originality and creativity? Looking at both the literary and art worlds, Fake It investigates…
The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be…
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A strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo’s works… There is much here in the methodology and discussion of postmodern themes and techniques that will have relevance to American…
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This volume, the first scholarly book on autism and the humanities, brings scholars from several different disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that…
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This collection of essays examines the various Hitchcock films that were adapted from other sources (short stories, play, and novels). Some of these essays focus on the director’s collaboration with…
The territory of severe autism - of the child who is debilitated by the condition, who will never be cured - has been largely neglected in literature. One of Us…
This is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides paradigms…
Mark Osteen (Loyola University Maryland)
This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir’s characters, themes, and cultural significance.
Don DeLillo
Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a cloud of lethal gaseous fumes…
This develops a new form of economic analysis…This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics.
This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis…This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the…
A definitive edition of a modern master: three essential works that reveal his incomparable style, dark humor, and uncanny sensitivity to the complexities of living in dangerous times
This first…
The definitive edition of a modern master continues with 2 mid-career masterpieces, published here with new prefaces from the author
This second volume in the Library of America DeLillo edition…
The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore’s underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie Blake and Cab Calloway, honors neglected figures…
Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author’s work published in the twenty-first century from a wide variety of critical perspectives to provide an in depth…
As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform…
