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Last Things
Lawrence Hussman's voice is sometimes angry, sometimes wryly humorous, but always unflinchingly honest. Exploring the human condition, he writes about what it means and how it feels to live a life controlled by "our Maker, Chance"--a life which always ends with "callous Nature's claim." With poems of amazing variety, but unified by philosophical naturalism, Last Things describes formative experiences in the poet's life, such as encounters with an elk, a cougar, and a lately hatched murre, as well as the significant losses of a great uncle, a close friend, and a lover. --- "Now at this small hour, the music's power spent, I'm left to wonder where all those longings led, what all this living meant." (from "Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's First Symphony") Readers cannot help joining Hussman's quest for meaning. --Betsy Hughes, author of Breaking Weather, Bird Notes, and Forest Bathing
Pre-Posthumous Poems
Praise for Pre-Posthumous Poems: "There is an inviting paradox about these poems. The ones about animals and the natural world reveal bracing human truths while the ones about people-about our desires, our terrors, and our losses-remind us that we are as vulnerable and momentarily beautiful as a seagull. Hussman allows all of these meditations to find their own spare, and elegant, poetic forms." -Carmine di Biase, distinguished professor of English, Jacksonville State University, author of Travel and Translation in the Modern Period and The Diary of Elio Schmitz: Scenes from the Life of Italo Svevo About Hussman's previous chapbook, Last Things: "First-rate" and an "engrossing read." -Kirkus Reviews
Harbingers of a Century
"Harbingers of a Century: The Novels of Frank Norris" represents a major reassessment of the California writer's long fiction. Lawrence E. Hussman argues persuasively that Norris should be viewed as a life-long philosophical materialist who developed an existential ethic of love for -another- and compassion for -the other.- His novels rehearse many of the themes of Norris's American fiction-writing successors, including desire and disillusionment in national context. Along the way, Hussman proves to be a knowledgeable guide through the thicket of previous Norris criticism."
Pagan Dreiser
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Dreiser and His Fiction
Discussing Dreiser's work from Sister Carrie to The Stoic, Lawrence E. Hussman, Jr. contends that the novelist was not necessarily the dour scientific determinist that the critics leas us to believe he was. He argues that Dreiser's fiction was an extension of Dreiser's own personal conflicts, the culmination of which resulted in an ethic of love and service.
Desire and Disillusionment
Lawrence E. Hussman examines selected novels and short stories of fifty major American fiction writers from Stephen Crane to Junot Diaz. The reader will also find references to American politics, history, and popular culture in the book.
Starmaker
David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was one of the most prominent film producers of the Hollywood studio era, responsible for such artistic and commercial triumphs as King Kong, David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, A Star Is Born, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Spellbound, and The Third Man. However, film production was not his only domain. Starting in the late 1930s, he built an impressive stable of stars within his own independent company, including Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine, Jennifer Jones, and Gregory Peck. In Starmaker: David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System, author Milan Hain reveals the mechanisms by which Selznick and his collaborators d...
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Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt"
In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a less thoughtful, less womanly character. The restored edition brings back the sexual charge, reinstates the social and religious criticism, and makes the language Dreiser's again. This volume brings together 19 fresh readings, together with an introduction, of the Pennsylvania edition by three generations of Dreiser critics. The volume includes general assessments, analysis of main characters, treatments of the autobiographical roots of the narrative, views of various traditions (realistic, sentimental, ethnic) on which Dreiser drew, and investigations of historical contexts that inform his story.
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser is indisputably one of America's most important twentieth-century novelists. An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie, and Jennie Gerhardt have all made an indelible mark on the American literary landscape. And yet, remarkably few critical books and no recent collections of critical essays have been published that attempt to answer current theoretical questions about Dreiser's entire canon. This collection is the first to appear in twenty-four years. The ten contributing essayists offer original interpretations of Dreiser's works from such disparate points of view as new historicism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, film studies, and canon formation. A vital reassessment, Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism brings this influential modern writer into the 1990s by viewing him through the lens of the latest literary theory and cultural criticism.
