Literature

Modern and Contemporary Literature

You Are Not Stendhal: New and Selected Poems

Daniel Hughes

This collection of ninety-five new and selected poems is a distillation of thirty years of Daniel Hughes’ work.

The Modern American Urban Novel: Nature as “Interior Structure”

Arnold Goldsmith

Analyzing seven twentieth century American works, Goldsmith challenges the view held by some writers and critics that nature is conspicuously absent in the modern urban novel.

Making the Light Come: The Poetry of Gerald Stern

Jane Somerville

Somerville provides a lucid introduction to the work of this major contemporary poet.

Best-Sellers by Design: Vicki Baum and the House of Ullstein

Lynda J. King

King provides a compelling case study involving the sociology of literature and the history of publishing in the context of Weimar Berlin.

Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic

Maurice Lévy  •  Translated by S. T. Joshi

A penetrating analysis of the themes running through the works of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer of horror and supernatural fiction.

Cross Roads

Bert Schierbeek  •  Translated by Charles McGeehan

A translation of the contemporary Dutch poem-novel Betrekkingen.