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Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces

Jeffrey Hotz
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Author : Jeffrey Hotz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000448269

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This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel in fiction and non-fiction, the study uncovers the spatial and legal conceptions of national identity. The study argues that imagined geographies in American literature dramatize a linguistic contest among dominant and marginal voices. Blending interpretations of canonical authors, such as James Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Herman Melville, with readings of less well -known writers like Gilbert Imlay, Elizabeth House Trist, Sauk Chief Black Hawk, William Grimes, and Moses Roper, the book interprets diverse authors' impressions of significant spaces migrations. The movements and regions covered include the Anglo-American migration to the Trans-Appalachian Valley after the Revolutionary War; the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and Anglo-American travel west of the Mississippi; the Underground Railroad as depicted in the fugitive slave narrative and novel; and the extension of American interests in maritime endeavors off the California coast and in the South Pacific.

Contested Masculinities

Nalin Jayasena
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Author : Nalin Jayasena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135922696

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Contested Masculinities by Nalin Jayasena Pdf

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous masculinity, therefore, both mimicked and departed from its metropolitan counterpart. The study combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus that is not limited to a single colonial society but ranges from colonial Bengal, Burma, Borneo and finally to colonial Australia.

Contested Spaces, Common Ground

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004325807

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Contested Spaces, Common Ground by Anonim Pdf

Space is contested in contemporary multireligious societies. This volume looks at space as a critical theory and epistemological tool within cultural studies that fosters the analysis of power structures and the deconstruction of representations of identities within our societies that are shaped by power.

Unsettled Narratives

David Farrier
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Author : David Farrier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Oceania
ISBN : 9780415979511

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Keeping up Her Geography

Tanya Ann Kennedy
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Author : Tanya Ann Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135863333

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Keeping up Her Geography by Tanya Ann Kennedy Pdf

Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts – the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic – were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women’s urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow’s novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley.

Railway Travel in Modern Theatre

Kyle Gillette
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Author : Kyle Gillette
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476616063

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Railway Travel in Modern Theatre by Kyle Gillette Pdf

Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs--ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's use of the treadmill--explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. After World War II, some playwrights and auteur directors, from Armand Gatti to Robert Wilson to Amiri Baraka, looked to locomotion not as a radically new space and time but as a reminder of obsolescence, complicity in the Holocaust, and its role in uprooting people from their communities. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive.

Between the Angle and the Curve

Danielle Russell
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Author : Danielle Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135508111

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Between the Angle and the Curve by Danielle Russell Pdf

In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russell demonstrates, the unique depictions Cather and Morrison create of the American landscape challenge existing assertions about American fiction. Specifically, Russell argues that looking at the intimate connections between space, gender, race, and identity as they play out in the fiction of Cather and Morrison refutes the myth of a unified American landscape and thus opens up the territory of American fiction.

The Spell Cast by Remains

Patricia Ross
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Author : Patricia Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135505035

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The Spell Cast by Remains by Patricia Ross Pdf

First published in 2006. Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather, she states that the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea, and not a real entity or something that deserves to be wasted in the chasm of deconstruction. Discovering how literature can help us to understand how we can exert causative control of the myths we create about ourselves, this book is an important contribution to the field.

Strange Cases

Jason Tougaw
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Author : Jason Tougaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135510916

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Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fictions from Defoe's Roxana to James's The Turn of the Screw and case histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found narrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a rhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the acumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering patient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of extreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by appealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the narrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit rhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels, shaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out to fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also raise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the Enlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the perfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.

Visionary Dreariness

Markus Poetzsch
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Author : Markus Poetzsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135523725

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Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke’s and Kant’s prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life. This shift is defined as a descent from mountaintops to an encounter, in William Blake’s terms, with 'a World in a Grain of Sand.' The purpose of this book is to sift the literature of the Romantic everyday, both prose and poetry, canonical and noncanonical, for such grains. In order to define the inherently amorphous and subsumptive sphere called 'everyday life,' the author draws upon two main theoretical threads: the first, based on the phenomenological poetics of Gaston Bachelard, serves to elucidate the depth and diversity of everyday household space; the second, comprising the work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau, defines the generative potential, what de Certeau glosses as the 'everyday creativity,' of some of the most basic human activities such as walking, reading and washing, to name but a few. The role of the everyday in Romantic literature has in recent years received greater scholarly attention, particularly from critics dissatisfied with the perpetuation of what Karina Williamson characterizes as a 'debased Romanticism which rules there is a category of experience and expression which is poetic and all the rest is ordinary and inadmissible.' The present study serves to map the intersections of these categories of experience and expression—the sublime and the quotidian—and thereby to challenge our assumptions about the aesthetic value of the everyday not only in the Romantic period but also in our own.

You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand

Wes Mantooth
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Author : Wes Mantooth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135515324

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You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand by Wes Mantooth Pdf

First published in 2007. In early 1929, two organizers for the American Communist Party’s recently established National Textile Worker’s Union (NTWU) journeyed south by motorcycle to investigate the potential for beginning organizing work among textile workers in the Piedmont region. One of these organizers, Fred Beal, decided to try his luck in Gastonia, North Carolina, which had been described to him as key to organizing the South In a chain of events whose rapidity and magnitude took Beal by surprise, workers at the Loray mill became embroiled in a Communist-led strike that would eventually focus national and even international attention on Gastonia. This book focuses on Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargan—the three authors of Gastonia novels who penetrate most incisively into the working-class experience beneath historical and political accounts of the strike and its larger context.

Machine and Metaphor

Jennifer Carol Cook
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Author : Jennifer Carol Cook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415978354

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Revisiting Vietnam

Julia Bleakney
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Author : Julia Bleakney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135520434

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Revisiting Vietnam by Julia Bleakney Pdf

This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and tourism to Vietnam. Because war memorializing has, since the late 1960s, shifted focus from national soul searching to personal identity and recovery, I emphasize how contemporary narratives of the war, shaped more by memory than by history, often are detached from the specific history of the war and its political controversies. Drawing on trauma and cultural memory scholarship, as well as empirical data gathered during field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, the author examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.

Rhizosphere

Mary Frances Zamberlin
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Author : Mary Frances Zamberlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780415975353

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Equity in English Renaissance Literature

Andrew Majeske
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Author : Andrew Majeske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135510008

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Equity in English Renaissance Literature by Andrew Majeske Pdf

This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intriguingly, first comes to light in literary texts rather than political or legal treatises. The book address the two principal literary works in which the transformation becomes apparent, Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, and sketches the history of equity to its roots in the Greek concept of epieikeia, uncovering along the way both previously unexplained distinctions, and a long-obscured esoteric meaning. These rediscoveries, when brought to bear upon the Utopia and Faerie Queene, illuminate critical though relatively neglected textual passages that have long puzzled scholars.