...H. Bruce Franklin Ed. Bell Gale Chevigny. New York: Arcade Publishing. 1999. xxxii, 349 pp.$27.95. 2000 Book Reviews 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 169 of 237 Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan...

...Stephen Knadler By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp.$34.95. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xv,374 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. 2003...

... in which the adult Alison, now living in New York, reads about the history of the 1950s lesbian scene (a scene coterminous with her parents’ courtship in New York), two vertical panels illustrate that 1950s historical moment in a street scene outside Chumley’s, a Greenwich Village bar that Bruce and...

... of experi- ence, Bruce equates any statement about the slave or freed man’s experience, whether penned by a person of European or African descent, with a black voice. Although he does raise the question of...

..., Bruce Bechdel as a stand-in for the president would oversimplify and distort the memoir (such a claim might also provoke eye rolling from the college-age Alison, who critiques symptomatic reading [Bechdel 2006b , 200]). What connects Fun Home to the Bush presidency is not the memoir’s subtext but the...

... . By Rosen David and Santesso Aaron . New Haven : Yale Univ. Press . 2014 . xii , 357 pp. $50.00 . Neocybernetics and Narrative . By Clarke Bruce . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . 248 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . © 2015 by Duke University...

... authority through ethnicity. The study complicates national—and national- ist—articulations of literature to rethink the terms culture, identity, race, and ethnicity in the Atlantic world. Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the “Lost Generation.” By Brian Bruce. Akron, Ohio: Univ. of Akron Press. 2006...

.... 2001. xx, 317 pp. Cloth,$49.95; paper, $19.95. By Bruce A. Harvey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. 331 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. 2003 Book Reviews 467...

... American Race and Culture . By Barnhart Bruce . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2013 . 252 pp. Cloth , $49.95 ; e-book, $49.99 . Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America . By Rubin Joan Shelley . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts...

... writers as Steve Abbott, Bruce Boone, Robert Glück, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Camille Roy, and Sam D’Allesandro.4 In most cases the work is characterized by an interruptive, story-based prose that blurs the line between fiction and autobiography. The writers tend to favor novels and short...

... myth? Conversely, what happens to these categories when we take seriously, as scholars such as H. Bruce Franklin have done, their early appearance in American literary history? This issue will explore the insights that emerge when we consider the various imaginative engagements that...

... canonical works through the lens of sci- ence fiction, fantasy, or myth? Conversely, what happens to these categories when we take seriously, as scholars such as H. Bruce Franklin have done, their early appearance in American literary history? This issue will explore the insights that...

...) by Sigmund Freud, Philip Roth, Erica Jong, and Lenny Bruce, which counter, often in satirical, deflating ways, “the romantic sublime” (303). The presence of existing Jewish literary genres and conventions enable this shift: courtship letters between the betrothed; yihus brifs (accounts of...

... reading, drawing upon theorists such as Rita Felski. In practice, Smith’s book is often exhilarating. What I find most exciting are her serious encounters with readers and their responses: for example, the hundreds of letters she discovered at the Wisconsin Historical Society, addressed to Bruce...

...), Anderson attempts to make links between the transnational and cross-racial dimensions of Bruce Lee’s films and Afro-Asian cultural productions in relation to experiences of slavery, colonization, and globalization. Her book revolves around Bruce Lee’s legacy as a “cross-cultural hero and global cultural...

...Dawn Keetley Duke University Press 2007 The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America . By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 176 pp. $40.00. The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital...

...Hugh Egan Duke University Press 2007 Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle . By Eliza Richards. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 238 pp. $75.00. Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance . By Bruce Mills...

.... $50.00. Neocybernetics and Narrative. By Bruce Clarke. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2014. 248 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Remember theory? There were many guises, both controversial and ecstatic, but everyone more or less agrees that it had its greatest influence sometime during...

... Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle (1996) and Bruce Sterling’s Distraction (1998), receive sustained examination across these monographs, though plenty of other cultural forms such as film and video, protests, and public health reports are the subject of cogent analysis. With the classifications HV (social...

...” works by George S. Schuyler, Wallace Thurman, Richard Bruce Nugent, Zora Neale Hurston, and Rudolph Fisher from 1919 to 1940. Dickson-Carr tracks how these authors’ use of satire in the shape of lampoon, parody, and irony complicates our understanding of this formative movement’s impact on African...