Straight (English, Utah State U.-Brigham City) contributes to the growing scholarship on autobiography by looking for a central focus for reading the genre and a set of organizing principles that are
This comprises the best of Donald Pizer's essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreiser's principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned with establishing the distinctive nat
In this study, Perkovich examines the literary origins of "camp" a satirical, parodic, and playful artistic practice favored by male homosexuals. Through the close examination of works by Whitman, Twa
Conducting readings of Stephen King's novel The Dark Half (1989) and novella Secret Window, Secret Garden (1990), both of which "stage a fictitious writer and his doppelganger engaged in a quest for i
Arousing musings about literary relationships via e-mail, this collection features the 1957-62 correspondence linking the American poet Williams (1883-1963) and British poet Tomlinson (b. 1927) in a m
Compelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry by authors including Paul Bowles, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Mary
F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered primarily as a novelist, but he wrote nearly two hundred short stories for popular magazines such as the widely-read Saturday Evening Post. These are vividly infused
