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... 2006 Announcement Henry James Review: Leon Edel Prize The Henry James Review is accepting applications for the Leon Edel Prize, awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Announcements Leon Edel Prize The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in the Henry James Review...

... texts: The Rifles by William T. Vollman, Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko, Green Grass,Running Water by Thomas King, the ‘‘spa- ghetti western’’ films of Sergio Leone, Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich...

... property, origins, and ‘‘blood’’ is quite useful for reading Erdrich and a number of other Western writers. But the most engaging chapter is ‘‘Displaced Horizons: Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name: Films...

... Grass,Running Water by Thomas King, the ‘‘spa- ghetti western’’ films of Sergio Leone, Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, and the Deadrock novels of Thomas McGuane. Smith notes a renewed interest in the western...

... Literary Journal 26 (fall 1993): 41. Tseng 2000.5.26 10:49 OCV:4 290 American Literature 10 Leon S. Roudiez, introduction to Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language,ed. Leon S. Roudiez (New York...

..., spent his youth in South Carolina, immigrated to England, and became an evangelical missionary to black loyalists who had been relocated to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War. Although he ended his days in New England, Marrant’s Canadian flock went on to found the Sierra Leone colony in the first...

... in the piracy of texts in antebellum culture a productive literary energy that inspired rather than simply exploited authors. Leon Jackson, on the other hand, has discussed the importance of manuscript cul- ture, gift exchange, and patronage for writers and readers who chose...

... A. Michener, or Leon Uris, or Laura Z. Hobson. After all, a term like middlebrow aesthetics seems at first to be a contradiction. Our great studies of the middlebrow have been cultural histories or sociological studies of the field of cultural production. What this choice reflects is the assumption...

... Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . Reckson Lindsay . 2014 . “William Vander Weyde, Leon F. Czolgosz, McKinley Assassin” (object narrative) . In Conversations: An Online Journal for the Study of Material and Visual...

...- leones’ story reminds us, going bad can have exciting results. Like Chester Himes, another uninspired ‘‘serious’’ realist who initially regarded his own turn to money-making genre fiction as an aesthetic defeat, Puzo wrote his...

... between the two Henry Jameses but to theorize ‘‘inheritance’’ out- side the ‘‘model of repression and sublimation which structures [Leon] Edel’s chronology’’ and to ‘‘rescue James Senior from the kind of blinkered and dehis...

... survive him. These acts of self-fashioning—the one obsessive and irritating to his publishers, the other bordering on paranoia—set the stage for the rest of the story that Anesko tells so well, as first the James estate and then the Master’s monopolistic biographer, Leon Edel, went on to behave...

... of these works were written by African American writers, some of whom were already well known or established when Morrison worked with them (Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, June Jordan, Huey P. Newton), others at the time unknown (Gayl Jones, Wesley A. Brown) or less known (Leon Forrest, Toni Cade Bambara). How...

... progressive sense of time in the margins of “neo-slave narratives” by contemporary African American writers like Toni Morrison, Ernest J. Gaines, Leon Forrest, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Charles Johnson, and Edward P. Jones. Magic, the supernatural, and nonwestern religion in these works have often been...

... . Jackson Leon . 2008 . The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Keillor Garrison . 1989 . We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters . New York : Viking Penguin . Kelly Catherine E. 1999 . In the New England...

... York: Library of America, 1983), 1177. 8 Henry James, ‘‘The Question of the Opportunities in Henry James Lit- erary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers, ed. Leon Edel (New York: Library of America, 1984), 655. Further refer- ences to this essay...

... of Leaves of Grass (1860) .” Huntington Library Quarterly 73 , no. 4 : 601 – 12 . Jackson Leon . 2007 . The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Jacobs Harriet . 1860 . Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...