15 research outputs found
The Woody Guthrie Centennial Bibliography
This bibliography updates two extensive works designed to include comprehensively all significant works by and about Woody Guthrie. Richard A. Reuss published A Woody Guthrie Bibliography, 1912–1967 in 1968 and Jeffrey N. Gatten\u27s article “Woody Guthrie: A Bibliographic Update, 1968–1986” appeared in 1988. With this current article, researchers need only utilize these three bibliographies to identify all English-language items of relevance related to, or written by, Guthrie
Crime and Sympathy
Examines the roots of “hard boiled” crime fiction, primarily focusing on Dreiser’s An American Tragedy (1925). Parallels Hemingway with Dreiser through “the way that their ‘anti-sentimentality’ contains a sentimentality which fundamentally informs their projects—and those of their literary descendants.” Looks at Hemingway’s style of anti-sentimental sentimentality in In Our Time, A Farewell to Arms, “The Killers,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
Man Up, Man Down: The Past and Present of American Toughness
Leonard Cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes including The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture, Hard Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, The Cambridge History of the American Novel, and The Cambridge Companion to Baseball. His latest manuscript, “The Graduate School Mess,” is under contract at Harvard University Press, and he writes a monthly column, “The Graduate Adviser,” for the Chronicle of Higher Education.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/eng_lec/1000/thumbnail.jp