Shirley Jackson's American Gothic Sarah Enany

Shirley Jackson's American Gothic Sarah EnanyArgues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time. Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and therefore

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and significant experience of their lives

The book explores how the good found in aesthetics is linked to the good found in the ethical codes that govern people's lives

Byways and Detours

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Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist

Immigrants

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief

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Presents a short history of artworks at risk of passing unnoticed because they look like trash