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Robert McParland
The Last Alchemist What if an aging Nazi scientist hid away on an American farm, pretending that he was dead because he knew too much? This thriller, grounded in historical…
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The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twain’s audience as a unique reading community -how his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he…
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This book looks at the bestselling titles since the early 20th century. The author considers how the popular circulation of these books reflected America’s consciousness and tastes at different junctures…
The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs…
Literature following the Second World War gave readers characters that asserted the courage and strength of the individual confronting the system. By profiling the protagonists who appear in significant American…
The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organises the stories of approximately 150 artists whose songs created the…
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Demonstrating the power a single author can have on generations of individuals around the world, Citizen Steinbeck enables readers to make sense of both the past and the present through…
This book looks at authors and their works during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, focusing on works that resonated with readers. A sweeping social, literary…
During the time when the American nation was emerging, the novels of a British author Charles Dickens contributed significantly to the making of American culture. The unique contribution of Charles…
This is the first book to bring together the imagination and energy of rock music with its sources in mythology and science fiction. The mythological roots of classic rock music…
Heavy metal is a mythical genre of heroes, outlaws, ominous gods, grotesques, and monsters. It is a proud world of intense battles with chaos and confrontation with modern alienation. Its…
The 1920s offered a veritable explosion of distinctively American fiction for the first time, from many of the nation’s most widely heralded writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, John Dos…
This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and others-contributed to shaping the national…
A study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This volume focuses on novels of the 1920s and engages in a…
This book examines the songs and themes, which continue to resonate with contemporary listeners, and argues that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young reflect part of the broader story of American…
Explores the relationship between religion/spirituality and rock music. The aim is to take an ecumenical approach with the essays in this book, covering a wide range of philosophies and belief…
In Music and Literary Modernism, the intersections of music, literature and language are examined by an international group of scholars who engage in studies of modernist art and practice. The…
Robert P. McParland
Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams…
The music, image, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons, giving the reader an inside look into…
