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The death of literature
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ISBN: 0300047835 Year: 1990 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press


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Shakespeare, the king's playwright : theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613
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ISBN: 0300061811 Year: 1995 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London Yale University Press

Printing technology, letters & Samuel Johnson
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ISBN: 0691014752 0691066922 9780691014753 Year: 1987 Publisher: Princeton University Press

The fruited plain
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ISBN: 1281721727 9786611721725 0300128347 9780300128345 9781281721723 0300092903 9780300092905 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself.


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The imaginary library : an essay on literature and society.
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Year: 1982 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,

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The modern American theater : a collection of critical essays
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Year: 1967 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) : Prentice-Hall,

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The tragedy of Julius Caesar
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Year: 1959 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
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Year: 1963 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : New American library,

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