Morgan, Jeff
About the author:
Jeff Morgan has a chapbook, Poems Inspired by the Parts of Terry Eagleton’s Literary Theory that I Really Don’t Understand, forthcoming from Mellen. Individual poems of his have most recently appeared in Grist and Abandoned Mine. Morgan is also the author of three books of literary criticism, most recently The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels (McFarland, 2023), and edited a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs. He is also the author of many scholarly essays, his work appearing in such journals as ANQ, Frontiers, and War, Literature, and the Arts. A recently retired educator after 42 years in the classroom, Morgan lives in Boynton Beach, Florida with his wife, Dana.
2003 0-7734-6588-XThis is the only edition of Country to be published as Country was originally published by Houghton in 1896 and have an introduction that stays true to the original narrative. Many of the other extant editions had later stories interpolated into the original narrative which disrupted the narrative line, or added in at the end.
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2026 1-4955-1333-5
To understand the literary theory that we were being exposed to, the professor assigned Terry Eagleton’s Literary Theory. This 1983 text breaks down different methods of analysis in the chronological order in which they appeared, revealing an evolutionary, generational thinking behind literary theory that resembles inbred royalty.
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2002 0-7734-6990-7
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