Literary Politics In America

Author : S. Salaita
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230603370

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Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics by S. Salaita Pdf

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 : Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195146998

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Race & Resistance by Viet Thanh Nguyen Pdf

Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.

Author : Patrick J. Deneen,Joseph Romance
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780742576681

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Democracy's Literature by Patrick J. Deneen,Joseph Romance Pdf

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that philosophic education of America's citizens would best be undertaken. In this fascinating new anthology of original essays, ten leading scholars explore the ways in which American civic education has been informally advanced through literature. Delving into the works of authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Octavia Butler, these essays reflect on the close relationship between democracy and literature. They convey an understanding that the greatest American literary works are also works of profound philosophical insight. Through careful analysis, Democracy's Literature illustrates that democracy and literature are natural partners, forging a relationship that America's greatest authors have long realized in their subtle efforts to craft a democratic public philosophy.

Author : Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0932360416

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Literary Politics in America by Richard Kostelanetz Pdf

Author : Michael Berube
Publisher : Verso
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0860916782

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Public Access by Michael Berube Pdf

In the years of the Reagan–Bush era, the controversy over ‘political correctness’ erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media as right-wing pundits like Dinesh D’Souza and Roger Kimball prosecuted their publicity campaign against progressive academics. Michael Bérubé’s brilliant new book explains how and why the political correctness furore emerged, and how the right’s apparent stranglehold on popular opinion about the academy can be loosened. Traversing the terrain of contemporary cultural criticism, Bérubé examines the state of cultural studies, the significance of postmodernism, the continuing debate over multicultural curricula, and the recent revisions of literary history in American studies. Also included is Bérubé’s witty and self-deprecating autobiographical reflection on why interpretive theory has emerged as an indispensable part of education in the humanities over the past decade Public Access insists that academics must exercise more responsibility towards the publics who underwrite but often misunderstand their work and its significance. Taken seriously as a potential audience, Bérubé argues, such publics can be weaned from their present inclination to believe the distortions and half-truths peddled by the right’s ideologues. The goal of such ‘public access’ criticism is not just a better environment for teachers and scholars, but a world in which education itself achieves its proper place in a society committed to equality of opportunity and true critical thinking.

Author : Philip Gould
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199967896

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Writing the Rebellion by Philip Gould Pdf

Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America, dissolving the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility.

Author : Patrick J. Deneen,Joseph Romance
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0742532593

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Democracy's Literature by Patrick J. Deneen,Joseph Romance Pdf

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that philosophic education of America's citizens would best be undertaken. In this fascinating new anthology of original essays, ten leading scholars explore the ways in which American civic education has been informally advanced through literature. Delving into the works of authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Octavia Butler, these essays reflect on the close relationship between democracy and literature. They convey an understanding that the greatest American literary works are also works of profound philosophical insight. Through careful analysis, Democracy's Literature illustrates that democracy and literature are natural partners, forging a relationship that America's greatest authors have long realized in their subtle efforts to craft a democratic public philosophy.

Author : Karen O'Connor
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062556660

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Gendering American Politics by Karen O'Connor Pdf

Arguing that the field of women and politics has "come of age" and edited by best-selling author Karen O'Connor, this reader includes both classic and contemporary readings on women and politics and provides students with an understanding of current research in the area, a sense the evolution of the field of women and politics over time, and ideas of where the research is likely to go in the future.

Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520921194

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Strange Talk by Gavin Jones Pdf

Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethnic impact of foreign immigration, the black presence in white society, and the female influence on masculine authority. Celebrations of the rustic raciness in American vernacular were undercut by fears that dialect was a force of cultural dissolution with the power to contaminate the dominant language. In this volume, Gavin Jones explores the aesthetic politics of this neglected "cult of the vernacular" in little-known regionalists such as George Washington Cable, in the canonical work of Mark Twain, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Stephen Crane, and in the ethnic writing of Abraham Cahan and Paul Laurence Dunbar. He reveals the origins of a trend that deepened in subsequent literature: the use of minority dialect to formulate a political response to racial oppression, and to enrich diverse depictions of a multicultural nation.

Author : Christine Dunn Henderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739103199

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Seers and Judges by Christine Dunn Henderson Pdf

Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that America had no truly great literature, and that American writers merely mimicked the British and European traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This new edited collection masterfully refutes Tocqueville's monocultural myopia and reveals the distinctive role American poetry and prose have played in reflecting and passing judgment upon the core values of American democracy. The essays, profiling the work of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Willa Cather, Walker Percy, and Tom Wolfe, reveal how America's greatest writers have acted as society's most ardent cheerleaders and its most penetrating critics. Christine Dunn Henderson's exciting new work offers literature as a portal through which to view the philosophical principles that animate America's political order and the mores which either reinforce or undermine them.

Author : Yvonne Zivkovic
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140882

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The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa by Yvonne Zivkovic Pdf

Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.

Author : Philip Goldstein
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813009766

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The Politics of Literary Theory by Philip Goldstein Pdf

Philip Goldstein examines in this study the politics of a potpourri of modern criticism - new critical, authorial, reader-oriented phenomenological, structuralist, and poststructuralist. In the process, he contends that Marxist and feminist criticism divide these critical approaches along political lines, each position, whether theoretical or practical, fractured along conservative, liberal, and radical lines.

Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497633

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The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Justine S. Murison Pdf

For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Author : Katharina Donn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Politics and literature
ISBN : 0367457466

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The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century by Katharina Donn Pdf

How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in those transgressive realities which our political system finds impossible to tame. This book re-imagines political agency, voices, bodies and borders as transformative processes rather than rigid realities, articulating a 'dia-topian' literary politics. Taking a contextual approach, it addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism. These readings revitalize fictional worlds for political enquiry, demonstrating how imaginative literature seeds change in a world of closed-off horizons. Prior to the pragmatics of power-play, literary language breathes new energy into the frames of our thought and the shapes of our affects. This book shows how relation, metamorphosis and enmeshment can become salient in a politics beyond the conflict line.

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780375718908

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Political Fictions by Joan Didion Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, into a disturbing portrait of the American political landscape, providing essential reading on our democracy.