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Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421421155
Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.
Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421421162
How the discovery of the Rosetta Stone led to new ways of thinking about language: “A brilliant new interpretation of major 19th-century American writers.” —J. Hillis Miller The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, John T. Irwin’s American Hieroglyphics examines the symbolic mode associated with the pictographs. Irwin demonstrates how American Symbolist literature of the period was motivated by what he calls “hieroglyphic doubling,” the use of pictographic expression as a medium of both expression and interpretation. Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791074428
An American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director, Norman Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. Along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer was a practitioner of New Journalism, a genre which encompassed the essay and other nonfiction writing.
Author : Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Maya calendar
ISBN : 9781465582430
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012392994
Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801854660
Irwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story--the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11799644
Author : Stephen Denison Peet,J. O. Kinnaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006999754
Author : Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754661989
Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas's anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance writers by examining them in light of African American vernacular culture and early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism and international modernism. At the same time, attention to the politics of form in such texts as Toomer's Cane, Locke's The New Negro and selected works by Hurston reveals that the production of analogies, juxtapositions, frictions and distinctions on the page has aesthetic, historical and political implications. Why did these African American writers adopt collage form during the Harlem Renaissance? What did it allow them to articulate? These are among the questions Farebrother poses as she strives for a middle ground between critics who view the Harlem Renaissance as a distinctive, and necessarily subversive, kind of modernism and those who foreground the cooperative nature of interracial creative work during the period. A key feature of her project is her exploration of neglected connections between Euro-American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, a journey she negotiates while never losing sight of the particularity of African American experience. Ambitious and wide-ranging, Rachel Farebrother's book offers us a fresh lens through which to view this crucial moment in American culture.
Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444345681
Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520054571
Lincoln presents the writing of today's most gifted Native American authors, against an ethnographic background which should enable a growing number of readers to share his enthusiasm. Lincoln has lived with American Indians, knows them, and is respected by them; all this enhances his book.
Author : Howard Temperley,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867371
A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American History and American Literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : SRLF:A0002681658
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521651794
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Author : Arthur Versluis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780195076585
Arthur Versluis offers a comprehensive study of the relationship between the American Transcendentalists and Asian religions. He argues that an influx of new information about these religions shook nineteenth-century American religious consciousness to the core. With the publication of ever more material on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, the Judeo-Christian tradition was inevitably placed as just one among a number of religious traditions. Fundamentalists and conservatives denounced this influx as a threat, but the Transcendentalists embraced it, poring over the sacred books of Asia to extract ethical injunctions, admonitions to self-transcendence, myths taken to support Christian doctrines, and manifestations of a supposed coming universal religion.
