27 results for 'Michael Chabon'

A Study Guide for Michael Chabon's "The Little Knife," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author...

Why do accomplished writers (and grown-ups) like Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and Michael Chabon (to name but a few of those represented here) still obsess over their baseball days? What is it about this...

Postmodernism, deconstruction and subversion have been the buzzwords of the last few decades. But not any longer. Ever since the end of the millennium an increasingly perceptible desire to turn...

Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media...

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the...

This gorgeous three-volume set collects Jane Austen's six beloved novels in one place. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and meticulously edited by R. W. Chapman, this...

Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events...

TELLING STORIES, TALKING CRAFT is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in...

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts explores new dynamics created by the intersection of digital media and contemporary fiction, arguing that these synergies are part of the...

Middle child Aaron Gimmelman watches as his family goes from a mild-mannered reform Jewish clan to having over a million dollars of stolen money stuffed in their RV's cabinets while being pursued by...

Sodom and Gomorrah(1921/22) is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novelIn Search of Lost Time. Being the last volume that had Proust's direct involvement, Sodom and Gomorrah is a story...

Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Good, University of Vienna (Anglistics-American Studies), language: English, abstract: When during the 1980s...

Soon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, premiering on PBS September 18thA New York Times Notable Book - Winner of the National Jewish Book Award - Winner of the...