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American literature encompasses written works produced in the United States and its preceding colonies.
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The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy is a lecture by George Santayana, delivered before the Philosophical Union at…
Persons and Places is the first volume of George Santayana's autobiography, published in the early 1940s by Charles…
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947–1963 is the first published volume drawn from the private diaries and notebooks of…
The Last Puritan is a novel by George Santayana, subtitled "A Memoir in the Form of a Novel"…
Hephzibah inherits her grandmother's Bible, a chronicle of her family's history from the Middle Passage through Reconstruction, in…
Gilles Deleuze's "Bartleby; or, The Formula" is a philosophical essay that takes Herman Melville's enigmatic short story "Bartleby,…
The book's centerpiece, the title poem "No More Secondhand God," proposes practical means for daily or hourly telephone…
Fuller traces humanity's technological emergence from Neolithic toolmaking to planetary integration, beginning with the accidental discovery of the…
The article's subtitle frames its central thesis: that devices which arrange optimal conditions for self-instruction emerge directly from…
New York Dada is a 2011 publication examining the Dada movement as it manifested in New York City…
In 'Project for a Trip to China,' Sontag presents a meditation on the impossibility of a journey, assembled…
The story concerns a man who has fallen ill during the AIDS epidemic, as detailed in the article's…
In America is a historical novel by the American writer Susan Sontag, published in 2000.
Death Kit is the second novel by the American writer Susan Sontag, published in 1967.
Trip to Hanoi is a long autobiographical essay by Susan Sontag arising from her 1968 visit to North…
