Shirley Jackson's American Gothic

Shirley Jackson's American GothicArgues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time. Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and therefore

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the late twentieth-century murder in Paris of a prominent Princeton professor-and the connection between the two-form the core of this fast-paced mystery novel

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Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s

lured photographer Andrea Baldeck on four journeys covering thousands of miles from northern India to western China

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