White flights : race, fiction, and the American imagination

Eating the blame: the question of reparative writing -- On seeing, waking, and being woke -- Beautiful shame (or, What we talk about when we talk about white writing) -- White flights -- Part of us not made at home -- What is the point of this way of dying: a white blues -- White out.

Versions of the past : the historical imagination in American fiction

Patterns of commitment in American literature

Canadian university paperbacks ;

Canadian university paperbooks ;

The hero and the heroic in American literature: an essay in definition / Hawthorne: tradition versus innovation / Melville's tragic imagination: the hero without a home / The two poets of Leaves of grass / Mark Twain and Victorian nostalgia / The many marriages of Henry James / Stephen Crane's Private Fleming: his various battles / Wallace Stevens and Santayana / The grotesque in recent Southern Fiction / William Faulkner: the problem of point of view / Contemporary American poetry

Collected essays.

Essays. Selections

Preface to Reactionary essays on poetry and ideas -- Preface of Reason in madness -- The present function of criticism -- Literature as knowledge -- Miss Emily and the bibliographer -- The function of the critical quarterly -- Tension in poetry -- Three types of poetry -- Understanding modern poetry -- Techniques of fiction -- The hovering fly -- A reading of Keats -- Hardy's philosophic metaphors -- Emily Dickinson -- Yeats' romanticism -- Hart Crane -- John Peale Bishop -- Narcissus as Narcissus -- The profession of letters in the South -- The new provincialism -- What is a traditional society? -- Religion and the old South -- A note on Donne -- A note on Elizabethan satire -- T.S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- MacLeish's conquistador -- g[6.] The forlorn demon: The man of letters in the modern world -- To whom is the poet responsible? -- The symbolic imagination: the mirrors of Dante -- The angelic imagination: Poe as God -- Our cousin, Mr. Poe -- Is literary criticism possible? -- Johnson on the metaphysical poets -- Longinus and the "new criticism" -- A miscellany: Crane: the poet as hero ; Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize ; A note on critical "autotelism" ; Modern poets and conventions ; The point of dying: Donne's "virtuous men" -- A Southern mode of the imagination.

Masks & mirrors; essays in criticism.

Shades of the planet : American literature as world literature

Catholicism and American borders in the Gothic literary imagination

The inhuman race : the racial grotesque in American literature and culture

Essays on American literature, in honor of Jay B. Hubbell.

Docu-fictions of war : U.S. interventionism in film and literature

Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle : Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction.

American Studies -- A Monograph Series ;

American Studies -- A Monograph Series.

Writers and miners : activism and imagery in America