Bøker av Frank Lentricchia

An ideal entrance into the fictional world of the novelist described as "the greatest unknown writer in America." This thrilling selection of Lentricchia's fiction showcases much of his best work, underlining the themes that have preoccupied him and offering readers an astonishing range of set pieces filled with surging lyricism, abrupt violence, and outrageous humor.

A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded "Rolling Stone" interview with the author and extracts from his novels.

Deals with patriotism and pacifism, justice and revenge. Critiquing government policy, citizen apathy, and societal justifications following the attacks, this title presents a range of opinions on such issues as contemporary American foreign policy; and the relationship between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

Thomas Lucchesi Jr, is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life - because grief alone inspires him to write - and searching for secret meaning in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick".

A study of the four major American modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot) in various historical environments (literary, philosophical, gender relations, the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given to their central poetic texts as they both reflect and shape our understanding of those environments.