American Literary Criticism

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic
    • By: Kendall Taylor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Both a literary study and a probing look at an iconic couple's psychological makeup, The Gatsby Affair offers listeners a bold interpretation of how one of America's greatest novels was influenced....

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    • Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
    • By: Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive....

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    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • By: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades....

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    • Essays
    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

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    • By: Patti Smith
    • Narrated by: Patti Smith
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times best seller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times....

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    • How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
    • By: Dan Sinykin
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

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    • How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
    • By: Evan I. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A narrative that sweeps across late nineteenth-century America, Finding Oz ultimately reveals how failure and heartbreak can sometimes lead to redemption and bliss, and how one individual can ignite the imagination of the entire world.

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    • By: Claudia Tate - editor
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after....

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    • By: William Shakespeare
    • Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-10
    • Language: English
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    • Here are 154 poems performed by by the wonderful Sir John Gielgud in this Shakepseare collection of the Sonnets....

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    • A Life
    • By: Mary Wisniewski
    • Narrated by: Gary Houston, Mary Wisniewski
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Award-winning reporter Mary Wisniewski offers a deeper portrait of Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, and a tireless champion of the downtrodden.

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    • Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels
    • By: PBS
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series....

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    • Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan
    • By: Raphael Falco
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed overnight when Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, challenging us to think of him as an integral part of our national and international literary heritage....

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    • The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
    • By: Christopher Benfey
    • Narrated by: Joshua Kane
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature....

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    • A Literary Life
    • By: Trudier Harris
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism.

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    • A Speculative History
    • By: Christopher Tomlins
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed 55 whites, mostly women and children....

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