.... 1997. x, 406 pp. $75.00. Writings in ‘‘The Southern Literary Messenger Nonfictional Prose is a welcome addition to Poe scholarship, and like the other volumes of the series, it will prove...

... and a social context. Resonant with traditional literary values—the use and manip- ulation of language, the construction of a tradition in which a contem- porary work exists—the nonfiction work also has an overtly social and political meaning: it imagines and articulates an alternative to social norms...

...Ben Bolling Abstract This essay examines the serialized accrual of narrative in the transmedia celebrity construct of Truman Capote. Through historical and literary analysis of texts ranging from the travelogue The Muses are Heard (1956), the profile of Marlon Brando in “The Duke in His Domain...

... to love strangers” (Woodruff 2012 ). 6 As the New York Times notes, “A striking assumption animates arguments on both sides, namely that nonfiction is seldom literary and certainly not literature. Even Mr. Coleman erects his case on largely dispiriting, utilitarian grounds: nonfiction may help...

... not only expansion on the literary side of things but also involvement with organizations like Black Lives Matter, Rich in Color, and the Zinn Education Project. Was the Cat in the Hat Black? is more a call to action than A Literature of Questions , but both make significant contributions to scholarship...

... on the years before she found literary fame at the age of forty. In order to reveal how her literature was influenced by the hardships she overcame, the authors juxtapose biographical sections with selections from her writings. Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction...

... acquaint themselves with her private life must look elsewhere. This volume, which presents itself as a complement to literary studies and biographies, assembles ‘‘lesser-known’’ reminiscences of Cather, drawn from newspapers...

... II here stand alongside literary readings from Mark Twain to Shirley Taylor Haizlip. Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel. By John Russel. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2000. ix, 242 pp. $35.00...

... pp. Cloth, $100.00; e-book available. Later in life, James engaged in a variety of nonfiction literary forms, including biographical sketches, public addresses, cultural and literary criticism, travel writing, life-and-letters biography, autobiography, and family memoir, publishing such works...

..., and nonfiction publications will prove helpful to scholars of the American literary Left in the mid-twentieth century. Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839–1987. By Cathryn Halverson. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2013. xii, 251 pp. Cloth, $44.95; e...

... 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Early comics scholars, themselves often practitioners, as well as theorists, of their art form, were intent on establishing the legitimacy of the field and the particular characteristics that distinguished the comics medium from its more conventional literary...

... responded to various kinds of exegetical writings of his period, including biblical scholarship, sermons, women’s Bibles, literary scriptures, and Holy Land travel narratives. Pardes describes a deeply religious Melville, who, like many of his contemporaries, was invested in redefining the nature...

... recuperate the swamp “as a space for ecological community” (112). Others make powerful cases for the ecocritical consideration of less-studied texts, including Harlem Renaissance poet Effie Lee Newsome’s nonfiction prose on bird-watching in the Crisis and William Attaway’s 1941 Great Migration novel about...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...