Ruthless Democracy

Author : Timothy B. Powell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691227771

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Ruthless Democracy by Timothy B. Powell Pdf

In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the period at the heart of the American canon and its evolutions--by expanding the parameters of American identity. Drawing on the critical traditions of cultural studies and new historicism, Powell invents a new critical paradigm called "historical multiculturalism." Moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric of the culture wars, Powell grounds his multicultural conception of American identity in careful historical analysis. Ruthless Democracy extends the cultural and geographical boundaries of the American Renaissance beyond the northeast to Indian Territory, Alta California, and the transnational sphere that Powell calls the American Diaspora. Arguing for the inclusion of new works, Powell envisions the canon of the American Renaissance as a fluid dialogue of disparate cultural voices.

Author : Harold Kaplan
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412821568

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Democratic Humanism and American Literature by Harold Kaplan Pdf

Author : Amanda Machin
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783839449233

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Bodies of Democracy by Amanda Machin Pdf

Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: representation, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway and Judith Butler, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.

Author : D. Berton Emerson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469678412

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American Literary Misfits by D. Berton Emerson Pdf

The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation—New England is a good example—D. Berton Emerson argues the same is true for American literature of the nineteenth century; a few canonical texts overrepresent the more motley history of American letters. Emerson examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of "the nation" because of their unseemly characters or plots, divergence from dominant literary trends of the era, or local particularity. These are his "literary misfits," authors and texts that show different forms of egalitarianism in action that existed outside and even against the dominant liberal narratives of American democracy. Emerson's unique contribution is revealing these texts and the people they represent as rich with political knowledge. This knowledge, he argues, finds its most potent expression in the local. Such texts show us a different kind of democratic politics: one that is egalitarian, disorderly, and radical rather than homogeneous.

Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107470422

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The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by Robert S. Levine Pdf

The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new topics as Melville and oceanic studies, Melville and animal studies, and Melville and the planetary, along with a number of essays that focus on form and aesthetics. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, this New Companion brings together a team of leading international scholars to offer students of American literature the most comprehensive introduction available to Melville's art.

Author : David Dowling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587299063

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Chasing the White Whale by David Dowling Pdf

"There have been a lot of crazy books about Melville and Moby-Dickiut this isn't one of them. Dowling's overarching analogy, between Ishmael's and Melville's obsessions and the annual marathon group-reading of Moby-Dick in New Bedford, makes perfect sense and generates illuminating analyses of the novel and its cultural contexts. It also lets him open his book up into a passionate exploration of how great literature can still play a vital role in people's lives today"-Damion Searls, editor, Thoreau's The Journal: 1837-1861 and Melville's; or The Whale --Book Jacket.

Author : Michael J. Collins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472130030

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The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865 by Michael J. Collins Pdf

A new history of the origins of the American short story and its relationship to theatrical performance culture

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780771005862

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Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum Pdf

A finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize One of Back Obama's Favourite Books of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Despotic leaders do not rule alone; they rely on political allies, bureaucrats, and media figures to pave their way and support their rule. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents. Applebaum describes many of the new advocates of illiberalism in countries around the world, showing how they use conspiracy theory, political polarization, social media, and even nostalgia to change their societies. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.

Author : Justin McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015067245830

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A History of Our Own Times from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880 by Justin McCarthy Pdf

Author : Justin McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015829828

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A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy Pdf

Author : Justin McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030019010570

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A history of our own times, form the accession of Queen Victoria by Justin McCarthy Pdf

Author : Justin McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXIIW

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A History of Our Own Times, from 1880 to the Diamond Jubilee by Justin McCarthy Pdf

Author : Jacob Rama Berman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814789506

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American Arabesque by Jacob Rama Berman Pdf

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.

Author : Tony Tanner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521783747

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The American Mystery by Tony Tanner Pdf

A collection of essays by the late Tony Tanner on a wide range of key American authors.

Author : William E. Cain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199728077

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A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau by William E. Cain Pdf

As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors series format. William E. Cain, the volume editor, includes contributions on his relationship with 19th century authority and concepts of the land, which should help the volume's reach beyond those who read Thoreau for illumination to those general readers who love him for embodying the spirit of American rebellion.