Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of reading."
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day
After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature.
Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis
Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma
Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere
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William Shakespeare is the well-known 16th century English playwright whose whole work is one of the most valuable contribution not to English literature but to the human race.
Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.
