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American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 521–530.
Published: 01 September 2011
... (Greenwood), contains 180 entries on writers, works, and topics related to the “Hip Hop Genera- tion,” including ones on such seminal texts as Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land and films as Boyz in the Hood. The editor insists that “every entry is written by an expert contributor,” yet 40...
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American Literary Scholarship (2003) 2001 (1): 533–544.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Encyclopedia o f American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, ed. Eric L. Haralson (Fitzroy Dearborn), contains more than 800 dense, double-columned pages, with entries on individual poets with a critical overview of their work, explications of individual poems, and topics (e.g., ‘‘free verse ‘ ‘Black...
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American Literary Scholarship (2007) 2005 (1): 529–537.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Century North American Drama (Alexander Street), when complete, will contain the texts of about 2,000 plays written over the past century by over 100 playwrights, about a fourth of them previously unpublished. The year 2005 was a banner year for literary “guides” and “compan- ions,” especially...
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American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 519–530.
Published: 01 September 2001
... writers. Indeed, with the demise of the Twayne imprint, the DLB contains the most accessible new scholarship on such writers as well as the most tangible evidence that their recovery or rehabilitation remains a priority, at least in some critical quarters. On the other hand, the directors’ assertion...
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American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 463–474.
Published: 01 September 2013
... the target audience for Christopher Mac- Gowan’s The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook (Wiley). Certainly this boondoggle contains nothing new, not even an innova- tive format. Overpriced at $94.95, the volume seems to epitomize what is wrong with the reference book market—an expensive...
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American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 497–503.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and Paul Lauter (www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page /american-literature), contains about 100 thoroughly vetted primary and secondary bibliographies, mostly specific to authors, by distinguished scholars (e.g., David S. Reynolds on the American Renaissance, Jeanne Campbell Reesman on Jack London...
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American Literary Scholarship (2005) 2003 (1): 571–580.
Published: 01 September 2005
... contain 33 chapters on individual authors, mostly reprinted commentary and analysis. Among the authors covered: Arna Bontemps, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Hughes, Hurston, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, McKay...
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American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 521–528.
Published: 01 September 2009
...” and superficial “literary guides” designed for sale mostly to libraries, all of which distill and consolidate past scholarship but usually contain nothing new. In “Why Bibliography Matters,” pp. 9–20 in Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds., A Companion to the His- tory of the Book (Blackwell), T. H. Howard...
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American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 167–177.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., of that fabled inside story that each of us contains, are stories of undoing, of coming apart, of being dismantled and dissolved from both within and without.” Mark Royden Winchell also offers years’ worth of his thinking, about Southern literature in Theresa M. Towner 169...
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American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 439–449.
Published: 01 September 2017
... a standard type of reference work and today a species of scholarship as endangered as the snail darter. i  Literary Histories A perfect case in point is the profusion in 2015 of histories of American poetry. The most comprehensive of the group isCambridge History of American Poetry, which contains...
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American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 195–209.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Theresa M. Towner Duke University Press 2009 9  Faulkner Theresa M. Towner “Memory believes before knowing remembers,” the narrator of Light in August tells us. “Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.” My own memory contains an anecdote I have second...
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American Literary Scholarship (2006) 2004 (1): 407–432.
Published: 01 September 2006
... psychological origins are found in deeply rooted feelings of loss. Bishop, it turns out, is a postmodern resistance fighter against repressive, inflexible structures of meaning. Lee Zimmerman looks but does not leap. In “The Weirdest Scale on Earth: Elizabeth Bishop and Containment” (AI 61: 495–518) he...
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American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 175–189.
Published: 01 September 2015
... focused essays cover many aspects of Fitzgerald’s life, work, and times. Mangum’s anthology contains essays from key names in Fitzgerald studies—Linda Wagner-Martin, Michael Nowlin, Ruth Prigozy, Kirk Curnutt, James L. W. West, Linda Patterson Miller, and many others— as well as from scholarly...
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American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 195–216.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., “Approaches,” contains 21 essays discussing cultural-histor- ical contexts, structure and style, and various strategies and available resources for manifold uses in the classroom—featuring such established figures as Michael Nowlin (“Teaching the Racial Subtext of The Great Gatsby,” pp. 50–58), Gail...
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American Literary Scholarship (2007) 2005 (1): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
... who knows the arts of typogra- phy and bookmaking, and Leaves is presented as a moving target—the outcome of a writing process originating in the extant manuscripts— rather than as a finished, canonical work. They show, for example, how a manuscript fragment of “Song of Myself” contains lines...
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American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the Emily Dick- inson Journal containing comments from seventeen important poets. Manuscript study continues to be of interest, and research into Dick- inson’s treatment of nature and her contributions to ecocriticism is expanding. American Literary Scholarship (2006) doi 10.1215...
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American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 303–329.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Go, since the period between 1944 and 1948 contains no known correspondence by Himes. The novel’s publication history reveals how Fannie Cook, the author of Mrs. Palmer’s Honey and the winner of the Carver award, was presented as more successful than Himes and “reveal[s] both the racial...
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American Literary Scholarship (2003) 2001 (1): 343–366.
Published: 01 September 2003
... on serious political and ethical dimensions. More speciŽcally , these authors developed a ‘‘feminist ethic of care’’ as a result of their experiences with German totalitarianism, an ethic that emerges in both their lives and their writing. The imagery of urban containment in post-World War II Žction...
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American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 189–209.
Published: 01 September 2013
... bibliography ( pp. 143–56) contains Fitzgerald scholarship, Gatsby criticism, and various cultural and historical works. In convincingly tracing the novel’s cultural-scholarly narrative, Beuka examines contemporary reviews in the first chapter, noting how some followed a “pattern” of “bold attacks...
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American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 463–479.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis (Rowman & Little eld). Focused and thorough if not exhaustive, the encyclope- dia contains entries by nearly contributors and introduces key contributors to the Black Arts Movement, including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Ntozake Shange, and Lorenzo...