Mary Mcaleer Balkun: 3 books
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the “counterfeit,” both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that...
by Milton R. Stern, Mary McAleer Balkun, M. T. Inge
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
As the author of some of the most compelling short stories ever written, two of the central novels in American literature, and some of the most beautiful prose ever penned,...
![Book cover of American Poets and Poetry: From the Colonial Era to the Present [2 volumes]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/march/300x300/9781610698320-QCWu_300x.jpg)
by Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey H. Gray, James H. McCorkle
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal…stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high...