Mary J Hurst

The Voice of the Child in American Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder's Confessions and Fantasies

This volume makes accessible for the first time in English Wackenroder’s Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (1787). One of the most important documents of early German Romanticism, the Confessions from the Heart of an Art-Loving Friar elevated Albrecht Dürer to a position of sig...

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

Winner of the President's Faculty Book Award at Texas Tech University! Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction.Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beat...