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Books

The WCU English Department is proud to support our local independent bookseller: City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina.

2007

  
 
Mimi Fenton

Milton's Places of Hope: Spiritual And Political Connections of Hope With Land
(Ashgate)

  • In early modern culture and in Milton's poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land. (Ashgate)
  • Forthcoming

 
 
Brian Railsback

John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels Brian Railsback (ed.) and Robert Demott (ed.) (Library of America)

  • This encyclopedia provides an extensive overview of his life and career and is accessible to high school students, undergraduates, and general readers. (Greenwood)
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore

 

2006

  
 
Catherine Carter

The Memory of Gills: Poems by Catherine Carter
(LSU Press)

  • Carter's first volume of poetry exudes a genuinely classical quality—cool-eyed and clear-eyed, intelligent, unsentimental, self-aware, and witty in the fullest and best sense. (LSU Press)
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore

 
 
Brian Railsback

A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia. Vols. I and II.
Brian Railsback (ed.) and Michael J. Meyer (ed.)
(Greenwood Press)

  • This encyclopedia provides an extensive overview of his life and career and is accessible to high school students, undergraduates, and general readers. (Greenwood)
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore
 
Ron Rash
Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies

The World Made Straight
(Holt)

  • Part melancholy historical novel and part high-voltage thriller, this third novel from the talented Rash will appeal to readers who like their suspense done with literary flair. (Booklist)
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore
 
Laura Wright

Writing Out of All the Camps: J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement
(Routledge)

  • An interdisciplinary and theoretical examination - combining ethical, postcolonial, performance, gender-based, and environmental theory - of the ways that 2003 Nobel Prize winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee displaces both the narrative and authorial voice in his works of fiction.
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore
2005  
 
Rick Boyer

Buck Gentry (Alexander Books)

  • A novel of the Southern Highlands
  • Purchase from Amazon
2004  
 
Rick Boyer

Mzungu Mjinga: Swahili for "Crazy White Man" (High Sierra)

  • An autobiographical look at the myth of the Great White Hunter, this tale provides an insightful look into the meeting of two cultures that has become big business—the safari as a subculture within Africa's vast expanse of uninhabited land. (High Sierra)
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore
 
Brian Railsback

The Darkest Clearing (High Sierra)
 
Ron Rash

Saints at the River (Holt)

  • Rash clearly knows the people and places he writes about, and that authenticity pays off in a conclusion that packs an unexpected and powerful punch. (Publisher's Weekly)
  • Purchase from City Lights Bookstore
2003  
 
Mae Claxton

Anthology of American Literature (Prentice Hall - Volume I & Volume II) Eds. G. McMichael, J. Leonard, B. Lyne, A. Mallon, V. Mitchell, and M. Claxton

  • This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. (Prentice Hall)
 
 
 
Other Scholarly Publications
(Articles, chapters, etc.)

2007

2006

  • Debo, Annette
    • "“Signifying Afrika: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Later Poetry.” Callaloo 29.1 (2006): 168-181.
  • Fenton, Mimi
    • “Satan’s Hope Abounding in Paradise Lost,” College English Association Critic 68.1&2 (Winter 2005/Spring 2006): 47-59. Special Double Edition to honor John T. Shawcross.
  • Wright, Laura

2005

  • Debo, Annette
    • "Reflecting Violence in the Warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot." African American Review, 39:1-2 (2005): 143-52.
  • Fenton, Mary C.
    • "Milton's View of Ireland: Reform, Reduction, and Nationalist Polity." Milton Studies, 44 (2005): 203-29.
  • Kinser, Brent E.
    • "A Not So 'Simple Story': Jane Welsh Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë's Shirley." Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought, 46:2 (2005): 152-68.
  • Railsback, Brian
    • "The Darwinian Grapes of Wrath." John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (Bloom's Guides). Ed Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2005.
  • Wright, Laura

2004

  • Debo, Annette
    • "Whiteness and the Black/White Border in H. D." Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 33:2-3 (2004): 155-75.
    • “H.D.’s American Landscape: The Power and Permanence of Place.” South Atlantic Review 69.3-4 (2004): 1-22.
  • Gastle, Brian
    • "'As If She Were Single': Working Wives and the Late Medieval English Femme Sole." The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England. Eds. Kellie Robertson and Michael Uebel. The New Middle Ages Series. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 41-64.
  • Railsback, Brian
    • "Style and Image: John Steinbeck and Photography." John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute. Ed. Syed Mashkoor Ali. Jaipur, India: Surabhi, 2004. 234-258.

2003

  • Carter, Catherine
  • Claxton, Mae Miller
    • "'Untamable Texts': The Art of Georgia O'Keefe and Eudora Welty." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, 56:2 (2003): 315-30.
  • Fenton, Mary C.
    • "Hope, Land Ownership, and Milton's 'Paradise Within'." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 43:1 (2003): 151-80.
  • Gastle, Brian
    • "Breaking the Stained Glass Ceiling: Mercantile Authority in the Paston Letters and the Book of Margery Kempe." Studies in the Literary Imagination 36:1 (2003): 123-147.
  • Spencer, Bill
    • "Suttree, Linguistic Chameleon." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (2003): 18-24.

2002

  • Gastle, Brian
  • Railsback, Brian
    • "Dreams of an Elegant Universe on Cannery Row." Beyond Boundaries, Rereading John Steinbeck. Eds. Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 277-294.
    • "Sharing the Immeasurable View with John Steinbeck." John Steinbeck, A Centennial Tribute. Ed. Stephen K. George. Westport, Connecticutt: Praeger, 2002. 87-92.
  • Spencer, Bill
    • "Cormac McCarthy’s Unholy Trinity: Biblical Parody in Outer Dark." Sacred Violence. Vol.1. Ed. Wade Hall and Rick Wallach. 2nd ed. Rpt. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 2002. 83-91.
  • Wright, Laura

2001

  • Debo, Annette
    • “Interracial Modernism in Avant-Garde Film: Paul Robeson and H.D. in the 1930 Borderline.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18.4 (15 Nov 2001): 371-383.
    • “Power, Destiny, and Individual Choice: Gloria Naylor’s Naturalism.” CLA Journal 44.4 (June 2001): 492-521.
  • Wright, Laura

 
 

Other Creative Publications
(Poems, creative non-fiction, short stories, etc.)

2007

  • Carter, Catherine
    • "Crow Cosmogony"; "The Bodies in the Landfill"; "Power Failure" - Main Street Rag, Spring 2007. [poetry]

2006

  • Carter, Catherine
    • "Cthulhu in Atlantis"; "The Day of the Summer Solstice"; "The Body" - Louisville Review, June 2006.[poetry]

2005

  • Carter, Catherine
    • "Years Away”, in The Paradelle: An Anthology, ed. Theresa Welford; 2005.
    • "Play Anything," Evansville Review, Summer 2005 [poetry]
  • Elliott, Deidre
    • "Finding Father." Quarterly West, Winter (2005): 73-79. [creative non-fiction]

2004

2003

  • Carter, Catherine
    • "The Fall", Poetry, January 2003. [poetry]
    • "Early Elegy", Roanoke Review, Fall 2003. [poetry]
    • "Two Years Married", Whiskey Island Review, Summer 2003. [poetry]
  • Elliott, Deidre

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2001

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