This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.
À la mort de son père adoptif, une jeune femme, trouvée enfant dans un seau noir posé sur un escalier de hasard, décide de quitter un compagnon violent et de retourner sur les traces de son enfance.
Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the US in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomics, and webcomics.
Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning - a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "e;political prayer"e; - in their literary works.
