Robert Mc Parland is professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Felician University. His books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture, Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to the People, From Native Son to King’s Men[these could, alternately be enclosed in quotation marks and kept italicized]: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America, and Bestseller: A Century of America’s Favorite Books.
19 Ebooks by Robert McParland
Robert McParland: Charles Dickens’s American Audience
From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, an …
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€168.24
Robert McParland: Mark Twain’s Audience
Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since 1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer to the reader. This study of Twain’s readership and lecture audien …
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€174.68
David Garrett Izzo: Movies in the Age of Obama
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, th …
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€129.61
Robert McParland: Beyond Gatsby
Many of the heralded writers of the 20th centuryincluding Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulknerfirst made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors lik …
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€32.17
Robert McParland: Citizen Steinbeck
John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and important writers in American literature. Novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden and the journal Travels with Charley conv …
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€73.48
Rocco J. Gennaro & Casey Harison: Who and Philosophy
The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bandsmemorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influenti …
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€163.70
Robert McParland: Rock Music Imagination
The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative …
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€38.24
Robert McParland: From Native Son to King’s Men
On the heels of the Great Depression and staring into the abyss of a global war, American writers took fiction and literature in a new direction that addressed the chaos that the nationand the worldw …
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€67.02
Robert McParland: Bestseller
Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothi …
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€58.48
McParland Robert McParland: Science Fiction in Classic Rock
As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots–a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction. This study explores the mythical and fantasti …
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€18.01
McParland Robert McParland: Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music
Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre’s themes of chaos, dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the con …
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€17.98
DiBlasi Alex DiBlasi & McParland Robert McParland: Finding God in the Devil’s Music
From the rise of the American Evangelical movement to the introduction of Eastern philosophies in the West, the past century has seen major changes in the religious makeup of Western culture. As one …
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€17.95
McParland Robert McParland: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s 50-Year Quest
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social activism, have remained one of the most enduring musical acts o …
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€17.93
Robert P. McParland: Philosophy and Literary Modernism
Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, …
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€115.57
Robert McParland: People We Meet in Stories
Novels bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter the lives, struggles, and dreams of characters who speak to the underlying pulse of society and social change. In this book, post World War II …
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€59.30
Debayan Deb Barman: Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced …
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€45.11
Robert McParland: Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and The Modernist Novel
Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This volume focuses on nove …
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€109.99
Robert McParland: Rock Music Icons
The music, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. This collection investigates authent …
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€38.12
Robert McParland: Last Alchemist
The Last Alchemist What if an aging Nazi scientist hid away on an American farm, pretending that he was dead because he knew too much? This thriller, grounded in historical research, reveals the frig …
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€17.19
