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...Lauren Coats The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic . By Christopher C. Apap . Durham : Univ. of New Hampshire Press . 2016 . xiii, 282 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $40.00 ; e-book, $34.99 . American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility...

... . By Haynes Rosetta R. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press . 2011 . 236 , ix pp. $39.95 . Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities . By Roberson Susan L. . New York : Routledge . 2011 . 191 pp. $125.00 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Rocco Marinaccio Duke University Press 2002 Rocco George Oppen’s I’ve Seen America’ Book Marinaccio Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative In the late twenties, George and Mary Oppen left George’s well-to-do San Francisco family for two long...

... of the personal in his work set against his impersonal theory of art. GeorgeS.Lensing,UniversityofNorthCarolinaat Chapel Hill The Road from Pompey’s Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso.ByInez Hollander Lake. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xxii, 279 pp. $29.95. Lake’s objective...

...Melanie R. Benson © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty . By Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. viii, 175 pp. $40.00. Journeyman's Road...

...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...

... students in the eighties, H.D. was the exemplar of l’écriture feminine,hernewlypublished autobiographical texts the ideal objects for our theoretical inquiries. Her clas- sicism was, generally, ‘‘bracketed o Our postmodernist roads led more often to Paris than to Rome or Athens. For this reason I...

... 2008 Collections All Roads Lead to the American City . Ed. Peter Swirski. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. 154 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $24.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher...

... imagined as glorious. Historical scholarship has long assessed the mania for cutting roads and canals into the landscape. But engaging an emerging infrastructuralism—and turning to imaginative texts that exist underneath the ground typically trod by US literary studies, from Philip Freneau’s celebratory...

... some escaped notice—such as Emerson’s ‘‘ ‘Confederate roads’ ’’ for the correct semiliterate ‘‘ ‘Confedrit x Roads,’ ’’ ‘‘ ‘x Roads’ ’’ meaning crossroads in Petroleum v. Nasby (5); and ‘‘while’’ for ‘‘which...

.... 2008 . “ Sterling Brown’s Southern Strategy: Poetry as Cultural Evolution in Southern Road .” In Tidwell and Tracy ( 2008 , 193 – 207 ). Barnes Deborah . 1998 . “ ‘The Elephant and the Race Problem’: Sterling A. Brown and Arthur P. Davis as Cultural Conservators .” In Rowell ( 1998...

... Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road and the concluding analysis of Cecile Pineda’s Face, bracket three chapters of paired works read as autobiography: Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the 6363...

... Pearson’s adulterous ways force him off the Pearson plantation in Notasulga, Alabama, he takes a train southward—or more precisely, southeastward—to San- ford, Florida: John’s destination was purely accidental. When he came out upon the big road to Chehaw, he overtook another Negro. They hailed...

... others through to Kerouac, di Prima, Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan, both debunking the “know-nothing” anti-Beat tradition that has run unabated since the publication of On the Road and further reshaping exactly how Beat should be defined and which authors...

... In this profile, which appeared shortly before On the Road (1957), he announces that he is doing so in a work in progress. This would be one or more of the so-­called Lowell novels: many aspects of the affirmatively franco- phone community and its ties to Quebec are prominent in Dr. Sax (1959...

... answers to life and things in storms. The symbol of lightning was painted on my back. This was to be mine for- ever.—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road Oya who causes the leaves to flutter Oya, strong wind who gave birth to fire while...

... as association. Instead of producing a debilitating contradiction, these overlapping discourses prove enriching. Simultaneously Jewish and Western, religious and secular, the char- acters in these works exemplify a key aspect of the American experience. Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility...

..., Slaughterhouse-Five, and The Color Purple. The contributing authors are especially interested in the ways that literary realism, modernism, and postmodernism have influenced cine- matic modes of the twentieth century. All Roads Lead to the American City. Ed. Peter Swirski. Seattle: Univ. of Washington...

... in the ways that literary realism, modernism, and postmodernism have influenced cine- matic modes of the twentieth century. All Roads Lead to the American City. Ed. Peter Swirski. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. 154 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $24.95. In a contribution to urban studies...

... in the ways that literary realism, modernism, and postmodernism have influenced cine- matic modes of the twentieth century. All Roads Lead to the American City. Ed. Peter Swirski. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. 154 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $24.95. In a contribution to urban studies...