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Author : Ben Siegel,Jay L. Halio
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874136865
This is the first of two volumes commemorating Friedman's life and work, and includes essays on American literature, poetry, and remembrances.
Author : Cindy Weinstein,Christopher Looby
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231156172
These diverse essays recast the place of aesthetics in production & consumption of American literature. Contributors showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, & conceptions of identity into their critiques, combining close readings of individual works & authors with theoretical discussions.
Author : Caroline F. Levander,Robert S. Levine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119062516
A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution A unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates
Author : E. Zivin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230607385
This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies.
Author : S. Salaita
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230603370
N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.
Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501332302
For better or worse, America lives in the age of "worlded†? literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. Where translation struggles to be effective and background is itself another story. The "worlded†? literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry where the global market is all. The essays in this collection, from some of the most distinguished figures in American studies and literature, explore what it means to consider American literature as world literature.
Author : Caroline F. Levander
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118339640
Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. A refreshing and accessible investigation into the various locations - linguistic, geographical, virtual, ideological - where American writing is produced and consumed Takes a highly original approach by viewing US literature spatially rather than chronologically or thematically, retuning our understanding of the subject The book offers a vital intervention in current debates over the impact of digital technologies on the production and reception of literature, ensuring that the field remains lively and dynamic Invites readers to reconsider the subject by questioning current perspectives on, and approaches to, US literature, offering a range of fresh perspectives on familiar texts and topics
Author : Donald Pizer
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785275470
The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism. Of these, two seek to describe the movement as a whole, six are on specific writers or works (with an emphasis on Theodore Dreiser), and two reprint informative interviews by Pizer on the subject. The essays reflect Pizer’s mature engagement of the subject he has spent a lifetime exploring.
Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Aesthetics in literature
ISBN : 9780192871725
In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.
Author : Robert Ernest Spiller
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010665250
Fifteen essays on the flowering of American national literature and its influence on our culture.
Author : Winston Napier
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814758090
Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examine the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. Contributions are organized chronologically beginning with the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Black Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, queer theory, and cultural studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Martin Brückner,Hsuan L. Hsu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015070730851
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history, from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical transformation of the 1890s. Foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalisms, and changing attitudes toward geographical settings, these essays present alternatives to exceptionalist accounts of U.S. culture. The focus on literary and discursive settings addresses social and political developments such as imperialism, regionalism, and tourism. This book contributes to literary histories by emphasizing spatial over temporal frameworks as organizing principles or telling the story of American literature.
Author : Houston A. Baker, Jr.,Patricia Redmond
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226035437
Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."—Choice. "This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."—Voice Literary Supplement
Author : R. C. De Prospo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496000
The Latest Early American Literature, according to readers for the University of Delaware Press, is “a collection of polemics and manifestoes.” In it R. C. De Prospo bids to follow in the footsteps of the two, rare, early Americanist dissenters whom Philip F. Gura once distinguished as “prophets without honor in the field”: William Spengemann and Michael Colacurcio. The book contends that a supposedly retired nationalist/modernist “telos” continues to reign in most of the latest scholarship, and even more influentially in all of the current literary histories and anthologies, no matter how expansive in gender, ethnic, racial, and “hemispheric” inclusiveness they profess to be. Old teloi, in particular that old American exceptionalist one, can be cunning. Updating and expanding upon essays written over the past thirty years, De Prospo proposes not only negatively to critique how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earlier ones, but positively to propose how a transnationalist concession—that as a neocolonial culture America’s lags behind that of Europe—might advance post-modern historiography by radically repositioning the past as no longer the present’s diachronic predecessor but, to quote Lyotard’s semiotics, its synchronic “differend.” Closer to earth, De Prospo tries at the same time to remain mindful of the pedagogical imperative that ultimately to save the texts of early American literature will require making them legible to average non-specialist, never-to-become specialist undergraduate general education students. To facilitate this he introduces in the concluding section of The Latest Early American Literature what will probably be taken as its most radical intervention: the redefinition of Edgar Allan Poe as an early American writer.
Author : Aimable Twagilimana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317732310
This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the book proposes a reading of major African American writers including Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
