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  • The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945

    by Andrew Epstein ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of American poetry that has flourished since 1945 and offers a useful map to its current landscape. By exploring the major poets, movements, and landmark poems at the heart of this era, this book ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Beautiful Enemies

    Friendship and Postwar American Poetry

    by Andrew Epstein ...
    Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Attention Equals Life

    The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture

    by Andrew Epstein ...
    Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by Jose Esteban Munoz ...
    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sex, Art, and American Culture

    Essays

    by Camille Paglia ...
    A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 50 - Sexual Cultures
    A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholarsCruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Poem Is You

    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    A delightful and provocative journey across four decades of contemporary American poetry with Stephanie Burt, “the leading poetry critic of her generation” (New York Times), as our surefooted guide.In The Poem Is You, critic and poet Stephanie Burt canvasses contemporary American poetry —from the urgency of Claudia Rankine’s Citizento the limitless energy of Juan Felipe Herrera and the erotic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Book That Changed My Life

    Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

    Edited by Diane Osen ...
    Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists offer new insights into the many ways in which the experience of reading ... Read more

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  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    by Jennifer Doyle ...
    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Scandal of Susan Sontag

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects-theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness-and courted celebrity and controversy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of the Beats

    Edited by Sharin N. Elkholy ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    The phrase "beat generation"—introduced by Jack Kerouac in 1948—characterized the underground, nonconformist youths who gathered in New York City at that time. Together, these writers, artists, and activists created an inimitably American cultural phenomenon that would have a global influence. In their constant search for meaning, the Beats struggled with anxiety, alienation, and their role as the ... Read more

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