Allegory In America
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Allegory In America
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Author : D. Madsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1995-12-18
Allegory In America written by D. Madsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-18 with Social Science categories.
Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.
Allegories Of America
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Author : Frederick M. Dolan
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Allegories Of America written by Frederick M. Dolan and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with History categories.
Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs. The pressing problem, in Dolan's view, is how to find a vocabulary for politics in the absence of European metaphysics. American political thinkers, he suggests, might respond by approaching their own theories as allegories. The postmodern dilemma of the loss of traditional absolutes would thus assume the status of a national mythology—America's perennial identity crisis in the absence of a tradition establishing the legitimacy of its founding. After examining the mid-Atlantic sermons of John Winthrop, the spiritual founding father, Dolan reflects on the authority of the Constitution and the Federalist. He then takes on questions of representation in Cold War ideology, focusing on the language of David Easton and other liberal political "behaviorists," as well as on cold War cinema and the coverage of international affairs by American journalists. Additional discussions are inspired by Hannah Arendt's recasting of political theory in a narrative framework. here Dolan considers two starkly contrasting postwar literary figures—William S. Burroughs and James Merrill—both of whom have a troubled relationship to politics but nonetheless register an urgent need to articulate its dangers and opportunities. Alongside Merrill's unraveling of the distinction between the serious and the fictive, Dolan assesses the attempt in Arendt's On Revolution to reclaim fictional devices for political reflection.
Allegory In America
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Author : Madsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Allegory In America written by Madsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Education and Training is designed to help students build their examination skills while bringing them up-to-date with recent developments in the sociology of education. Separate chapters are devoted to areas that now require equal treatment - class, gender and ethnic inequalities in educational achievement - and are weighted towards recent debates and thinking. Accessible text is therefore combined with interesting exercises and practical examination advice.
The Kingdom Of Kanawha
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Author : L. A. Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Kingdom Of Kanawha written by L. A. Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
THE KINGDOM OF KANAWHA is a masterpiece of political satire, & fulfills its subtitle of "An Allegory for America." The setting is West Virginia, & the time is the late 1990s. The author, a new Englander, praises West Virginians as being survivors of a hard life, & as close to the spirit of the original settlers of the United States as anyone now left in the country. The back cover of the book ends by stating, "If you are not a politician, lawyer, bureaucrat, big banker, Japanese, or the IRS, you will love this book. If you are not a West Virginian, you may wish you were."
American Allegory
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Author : Black Hawk Hancock
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-05-30
American Allegory written by Black Hawk Hancock and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Social Science categories.
“Perhaps,” wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, “the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.” As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important than they appear, taking on great significance and an unexpected depth of meaning. What he saw in the power of the Lindy Hop—the dance that Life magazine once billed as “America’s True National Folk Dance”—would spread from black America to make a lasting impression on white America and offer us a truly compelling means of understanding our culture. But with what hidden implications? In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock offers an embedded and embodied ethnography that situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Delving into two Chicago dance worlds, the Lindy and Steppin’, Hancock uses a combination of participant-observation and interviews to bring to the surface the racial tension that surrounds white use of black cultural forms. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, Hancock underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers wonderful insights into the intersection of race and culture in America.
Myths And Counter Myths Of America
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Author : Fabio Ferrari
language : en
Publisher: Longo Angelo
Release Date : 2008
Myths And Counter Myths Of America written by Fabio Ferrari and has been published by Longo Angelo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
Commander And Chief
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Author : Russell J J Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Commander And Chief written by Russell J J Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Fiction categories.
The door slammed open. He was now in the open. He insisted on avoiding the underground tunnels of the US Capitol. The Secret Service advance team had a fit. Too bad. He did it anyway. Fierce and unrelenting, he chose his battles. He never lost a campaign. As a decorated Army soldier in Afghanistan, he worthily received several medals for valor in combat. Then the impossible happened. A stealthier drone in the sky suddenly spit fire at the President from overhead. This dragon duped everyone, including the Secret Service. Its contrail sizzled at high velocity, hissing and whistling blasphemies against democracy and the new President. That serpent knew his face, and its package had the President's name on it. And next, a blinding flash. It was as though the new President, Micco Menewah, had been blindsided by a thug in an alley-one that was meaner and more nefarious. The nation got played, and the President got popped. The opponent forced its hand with a fist clenched with no rules. The heat intensified with a blinding white-hot flash, and then the lights went out for the moment. The first Native American President of the United States of America will listen and then go to work, keeping his oath during his first day on the job.
Allegory And Antislavery Literature Of Latin America And The United States
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Author : Julia C. Paulk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Allegory And Antislavery Literature Of Latin America And The United States written by Julia C. Paulk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Allegory categories.
The Language Of Allegory
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Author : Maureen Quilligan
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1992
The Language Of Allegory written by Maureen Quilligan and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
"The Language of Allegory examines a body of literature not often treated as a unified genre. Reading a number of texts that are traditionally characterized as allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan identifies the distinctive generic elements they share. Originally published in 1979, this highly regarded work by a well-known feminist critic and theorist is now available in paperback."--Back book cover
Allegory And Meaning
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Author : Ikenna Dieke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Allegory And Meaning written by Ikenna Dieke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with African literature categories.
This study explores the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works, and the discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers' use of the allegorical mode is an attempt to recover the subtext of their works.