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Author : Sarah Daw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474430043
A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy.
Author : Richard Schneider
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498528122
In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of “dark ecology” in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking.” The ecological thought, he says, should include “negativity and irony, ugliness and horror.” Focusing on this concept of “dark ecology” and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American literature and culture offers examples of how a vision of nature’s darker side can create a fuller understanding of humanity’s relation to nature. Included are essays on canonical American literature, on new voices in American literature, and on non-print American media. This is the first collection of essays applying the “dark ecology” principle to American literature.
Author : Zuzanna Ladyga
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474442947
This text argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.
Author : Thomas H. Schaub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 029912844X
Schaub presents American fiction in the political climate of its time. Through the 1930s, he portrays authors as typically left of center and becoming disillusioned with communism as a result of Stalin's purges and his nonaggression pact with Hitler. Subsequent authors embraced a His general discussion comes to focus on the works of Barth, O'Connor, Ellison, and Mailer. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jordan J. Dominy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496826442
During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supported that narrative by casting America’s complicated history with race and poverty as moral rather than merely political problems. Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America examines southern literature and the culture within the United States from the period just before the Cold War through the civil rights movement to show how this literature won a significant place in Cold War culture and shaped the nation through the time of Hillbilly Elegy. Tackling cultural issues in the country through subtext and metaphor, the works of authors like William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy redefined “South” as much more than a geographical identity within an empire. The “South” has become a racially coded sociopolitical and cultural identity associated with white populist conservatism that breaks geographical boundaries and, as it has in the past, continues to have a disproportionate influence on the nation’s future and values.
Author : Bernadette H. Hyner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443808859
In Forces of Nature, the authors investigate the relationships between the natural world and gender and sexuality. The authors explore the frameworks within which femininity and nature have been constructed, as well as the impact nature has had on our understandings of masculinity, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. For some writers nature has restorative powers, for others nature embodies violence and destruction. Yet, one common thread runs across all of the chapters in this collection: nature and animals can not be separated from the human experience. Forces of Nature brings to light the intimate connection humans have with the natural world and provides students and scholars with innovative readings of both canonical and noncanonical texts.
Author : Adam Piette
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748635283
This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US. The Literary Cold War examines writers working at the hazy borders between aesthetic project and political allegory, with specific attention being paid to Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene as Cold War writers. The book looks at the special relationship as a form of paranoid plotline governing key Anglo-American texts from Storm Jameson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as examining the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer caught up in the sacrificial triangles structuring cold war fantasy. The book aims to consolidate and define a new emergent field in literary studies, the literary Cold War, following the lead of prominent historians of the period.
Author : Michael Davidson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226137391
Guys Like Us considers how writers of the 1950s and '60s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort. Michael Davidson examines a wide range of postwar literature, from the fiction of Jack Kerouac to the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath. He also explores the connection between masculinity and sexuality in films such as Chinatown and The Lady from Shanghai, as well as television shows, plays, and magazines from the period. What results is a virtuoso work that looks at American poetic and artistic innovation through the revealing lenses of gender and history.
Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030112643
Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
Author : Steven Belletto
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199826889
Presents an examination of American novels and nonfiction texts, published between 1947 and 2005, that looks at the concept of chance and how it was denied in the Soviet Union.
Author : Douglas Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060862193
This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts.
Author : Joel Isaac,Duncan Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199826124
Uncertain Empire examines the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of American history.
Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030389734
This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age and characterised by styles and approaches that transcended national borders. Drawing on specialists from across the world, the volume analyses the period’s fiction, poetry, drama and autobiographical writings in three sections: dominant concerns (socialism, decolonisation, nuclearism, propaganda, censorship, espionage), common genres (postmodernism, socialism realism, dystopianism, migrant poetry, science fiction, testimonial writing) and regional cultures (Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and the Americas). In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature.
Author : Audra J. Wolfe
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421439082
Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.
Author : Duncan White
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062449825
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their authors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and established vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by political fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield. In Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies, government officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics who helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have been higher. Drawing upon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, Cold Warriors is both a gripping saga of prose and politics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too frequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers and books can change the world.
