Search Results - A. A. Allen

A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / by Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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William James a biography. by Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-1995

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Eudora Welty by Bryant, J. A. (Joseph Allen), 1919-1999

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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 / by O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015

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Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Burroughs / Loni Reynolds -- The invention of sincerity: Allen Ginsberg and the philology of the margins / Matthew Pfaff -- Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack / Marguerite Johnson -- Riffing on Catullus: Robert Creeley's poetics of adultery / Nick Selby -- Sappho comes to the Lower East Side: Ed Sanders, the sixties avant-garde, and fictions of Sappho / Jennie Skerl -- Robert Duncan and Pindar's dance / Victoria Moul -- Kenneth Rexroth: Greek anthologist / Gideon Nisbet -- Philip Whalen and the classics: "A walking grove of trees" / Jane Falk -- Troubling classical and Buddhist traditions in Diane di Prima's Loba / Nancy M. …”
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