L’espace en poésie – poésie de l’espace : les Fireside Poets by Michel Barrucand

“…The discovery of American space and its impressive size is best expressed through poetical visions. From the beginning, poets have described their environment, following colonial expansion and the progressive settlement of continuous waves of immigration. …”
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Los prolegómenos del comunismo indo-afroamericano en Haití y Jacques Roumain: 1927-1933 by Vicente Romero

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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…In these narrative retellings, motivation is constantly offered to a child in need of acculturation in the national poet’s work (in other, more contemporary words, in need of cultural capital). …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Scott McClanahan, rising star of the US Indie Lit world and "Poet Laureate of Real America" (Moran), writes miasmic chronicles of life in a West Virginian holler. …”
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