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Author : Anthony Channell Hilfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4376161
Author : Tony Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292741133
Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stein, Howells, Dreiser, and Henry James, Anthony Hilfer explores how these authors have structured their characters' consciousness, their purpose in doing so, and how this presentation controls the reader's moral response. Hilfer contends that there was a significant change in the mode of character presentation in American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The self defined in terms of a Victorian ethic and judged adversely for its departures from that code shifted to the self defined in terms of emotional intensity and judged adversely for its failures of nerve. In the first mode, characters are almost always wrong to yield to desire; in the second, characters are frequently wrong not to and, in fact, are seen less as the sum of their ethical choices than as the process of their longings. His conclusion: modern fiction is as overbalanced toward pathos as Victorian fiction was toward ethos. but the continued dialectic between the two is a tension that ought not be resolved.
Author : Tony Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477300084
Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stein, Howells, Dreiser, and Henry James, Anthony Hilfer explores how these authors have structured their characters' consciousness, their purpose in doing so, and how this presentation controls the reader's moral response. Hilfer contends that there was a significant change in the mode of character presentation in American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The self defined in terms of a Victorian ethic and judged adversely for its departures from that code shifted to the self defined in terms of emotional intensity and judged adversely for its failures of nerve. In the first mode, characters are almost always wrong to yield to desire; in the second, characters are frequently wrong not to and, in fact, are seen less as the sum of their ethical choices than as the process of their longings. His conclusion: modern fiction is as overbalanced toward pathos as Victorian fiction was toward ethos. but the continued dialectic between the two is a tension that ought not be resolved.
Author : Jack Salzman,American Studies Association
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266882
This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.
Author : David Halliburton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521362741
David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane. Offering close readings of the works within a broad framework, Halliburton sets out to explore the imaginative world Crane created in his total œuvre of fiction, poetry and reportage.
Author : Susan Clair Imbarrato
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1572330120
In this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial society to an independent republic.Imbarrato charts the development of early American autobiography from the self-examination mode of the Puritan journal and diary to the self-inventive modes of eighteenth-century writings, which in turn anticipate the more romantic voices of nineteenth-century American literature. She focuses especially on the ways in which first-person narrative displayed an ever-stronger awareness of its own subjectivity. The eighteenth century, she notes, remained closer in temper to its Puritan communal foundations than to its Romantic progeny, but there emerged, nevertheless, a sense of the individual voice that anticipated the democratic celebration of the self. Through acts of self-examination, this study shows, self-construction became possible.In tracing this development, the author focuses on six writers in three literary genres. She begins with the spiritual autobiographies of Jonathan Edwards and Elizabeth Ashbridge and then considers the travel narratives of Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth House Trist. She concludes with an examination of political autobiography as exemplified in the writings of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. These authors, Imbarrato finds, were invigorated by their choices in a social-political climate that revered the individual in proper relationship to the republic. Their writings expressed a revolutionary spirit that was neither cynical nor despairing but one that evinced a shared conviction about the bond between self and community.
Author : Carol E. Henderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780838641323
"America and the Black Body is a timely exploration into the creative, literary, and visual uses of the black body in American print and visual culture. More specifically, this volume contemplates the social development of American identity and the multifarious ways this identity coalesces in the small gestures of preclusion that establish discemable markers of national belonging. Such investigations underscore issues of power and disenfranchisement, of race, class, and gender that mediate the representations of the black male and the black female body in real and imagined ways, as it also reveals the invisible social and political ties that connect white men and women's identities to these racial imaginings." --Book Jacket.
Author : Helga Schier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110910773
Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520063465
Offers a view of Thoreau's life and his extraordinary achievement in their nineteenth-century context.
Author : University of Texas Press
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292785380
50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015033536122
Author : Nancy Glazener
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822318709
Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a form she contends was only made possible by changes in the expectations of readers about pleasure and literary value. By tracing readers' collaboration in the production of literary forms, Reading for Realism turns nineteenth-century controversies about the realist, romance, and sentimental novels into episodes in the history of readership. It also shows how works of fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others participated in the debates about literary classification and reading that, in turn, created and shaped their audiences. Combining reception theory with a materialist analysis of the social formations in which realist reading practices circulated, Glazener's study reveals the elitist underpinnings of literary realism. At the book's center is the Atlantic group of magazines, whose influence was part of the cultural machinery of the Northeastern urban bourgeoisie and crucial to the development of literary realism in America. Glazener shows how the promotion of realism by this group of publications also meant a consolidation of privilege--primarily in terms of class, gender, race, and region--for the audience it served. Thus American realism, so often portrayed as a quintessentially populist form, actually served to enforce existing structures of class and power.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Best books
ISBN : UCAL:B4374653
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015079952233
Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015028747312