Reciting America

Author : Christopher Douglas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : America
ISBN : 0252026039

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Reciting America by Christopher Douglas Pdf

He explores how these novels and other texts confront national discourse and strive, though with inconclusive results, to open America up to new subject positions by offering alternatives to the dominant ideology." "Douglas finds contemporary intellectual and political life, against the backdrop of a mythology enshrined in proclamations, pledges, and public documents, to be impoverished by the pervasive use of cliches, which he identifies as figures of speech that stimulate emotion or action while shortcircuiting reflection. In its extreme cliched form, the American Dream consists of nothing more than advertising slogans and popular culture images; yet these pronouncements retain a powerful hold on the will and imagination of U.S. citizens."

Author : Denis Donoghue
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520064240

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Reading America by Denis Donoghue Pdf

Here is a selection by the distinguished critic of his essays and commentaries on American writing and writers, from Emerson and Whitman through Auden and Ashbery. Denis Donoghue examines the canon in the light of what he takes to be the central dynamic of the American enterprise--the imperatives of a powerful national past versus the subversions of an irrevocably anarchic spirit.

Author : Matthew Guillen
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781933146294

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Reading America by Matthew Guillen Pdf

Is there a unique visual infrastructure that keeps and defines a culture? Professor Guillen discusses a culture built entirely on the visual modality and, most significantly, on that province of the visual we negotiate through the written word. Although this work analyzes features critical to the American legal tradition from its origins in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence to recent Supreme Court decisions---substantially exploring Judge Scalia's "originalist" movement and Posner's law and economics theories---the presiding agency remains the power of the written language to provide scaffolding to American culture. Writing, it is argued, contours: our worldview, our laws, morality, science, social problems, and affects film, media, broadcasting, comics and literary criticism. The effects of our national formation and the literature that sprung up to discuss the new nation and define its people have directly led to the evolution of our idiosyncratic legal and philosophical perspectives. The title of this work purposely carries a double meaning since it proposes to deal with a "reading of" American culture through its legal and cultural legacy as well as concluding with questions revolving around a well informed American "readership" essential for the preservation of the culture as well as the continued existence of a national collective conscience.

Author : Elizabeth Boyle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443807234

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Reading America by Elizabeth Boyle Pdf

This specially commissioned volume of essays offers a refreshing and unusual perspective on classic novels from the American literary canon. Accessible to students, scholars and the interested reader, this engaging collection explores familiar novels through unfamiliar lenses and, in so doing, sheds light on surprising and previously overlooked aspects of each text. Reading America presents a new approach to American literature by showcasing a cross-section of recent research into previously un-tapped areas of interest. Each chapter attempts to re-read classic American texts using new or unorthodox theoretical frameworks, including such diverse topics as an Emersonian reading of Don DeLillo, decoding Thomas Pynchon with eco-criticism and understanding Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy by exploring the graphic novel version of “City of Glass”. Other authors explored in this way include Henry James, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This type of approach widens the reader’s knowledge of each well-known text and encourages new critical evaluations of contemporary American literature. The collection moves through six large topic areas, from Naturalism and an idea of the “Great American Novel” at the end of the nineteenth century, through politics, sexuality, language and nature, to a contemporary engagement with postmodernism. Each essay deals with its own particular subject and author, but the full impact of each on the notion of the “American novel” as a phenomenon can only be understood when read in conjunction with the others. Of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, Reading America would be a valuable asset to any American Studies or American Literature degree course, and a useful companion to American History or Politics courses. The volume will also attract strong interest from established academics, especially those researching the fields of literature, critical theory, cultural history and politics.

Author : S. F. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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America by S. F. Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Recitations
ISBN : PRNC:32101076516556

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America's Recitation Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles R. Smith (Jr.),Charles R. Smith
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439431794

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I Am America by Charles R. Smith (Jr.),Charles R. Smith Pdf

Photographs and rhyming text describe children growing up in America today.

Author : America Ferrera
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501180927

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American Like Me by America Ferrera Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all. Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship to family, culture, and growing up.

Author : Omri Asscher
Publisher : Stanford Studies in Jewish His
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1503610934

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Reading Israel, Reading America by Omri Asscher Pdf

Reading Across Borders analyzes the relationship between Jewish Americans and Jewish Israelis through the lens of translation studies, shedding light on the different ways in which each Jewish cultural center responded to the challenge--and potential inspiration--represented by the other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89092859826

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The Epworth Herald by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katharine Lee Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Patriotic music
ISBN : 0545492076

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America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates Pdf

A celebration of "America the Beautiful" combines presidential quotes with artwork by ten artists, including Diane Goode and LeUyen Pham.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Temperance
ISBN : UOM:39015071647460

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The Official Organ by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham Hancock
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781250153746

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America Before by Graham Hancock Pdf

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Acetylene
ISBN : UIUC:30112052531958

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Acetylene Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marsha Elyn Wright,School Specialty Publishing,Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Publisher : Instructional Fair
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Content area reading
ISBN : 0742426971

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Every teacher is a reading teacher by Marsha Elyn Wright,School Specialty Publishing,Carson-Dellosa Publishing Pdf

Includes ideas on incorporating content area reading in math, science and technology, social studies, language arts, physical education, art and music.