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American Literature American Culture

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Author : Gordon Hutner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1999

American Literature American Culture written by Gordon Hutner and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

American Literature, American Culture is the first comprehensive anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years and the first collection to bring together the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique. This unique anthology assembles reviews of early works, major critical essays, excerpts from landmark studies, and the most influential examples of the criticism practiced today. The selections address the dominant questions in the American literary tradition: What are the cultural responsibilities of the American writer? What are the characteristics of a national literature? Is a national literature even possible? How do gender and race affect the way we understand literature? What role does literature play in a democratic society? Organized chronologically, the four sections of the volume gather the most vital and enduring arguments in American literary and cultural politics in each era, covering such prominent issues as American exceptionalism, the racial divide, gender, and class identity. The book pays particular attention to the historical background of contemporary debates about multiculturalism. American Literature, American Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature, criticism, and American Studies. It also serves as a useful supplementary text in upper-level courses in criticism. Its range proves that at every juncture of the nation's intellectual history, criticism has provided an indispensable way of determining America's most fundamental meanings.

In The Company Of Books

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Author : Sarah Wadsworth
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01

In The Company Of Books written by Sarah Wadsworth and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.

American Literature In Context

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Author : Ann Massa
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-20

American Literature In Context written by Ann Massa and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1900 to 1930, this fourth volume of American Literature in Context focuses on how American literature dealt with the challenges of the period including the First World War and the stock market crash. It examines key writers of the time such as Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O’Neill who, unlike many Americans who sought escape, confronted reality, providing a rich and varied literature that reflects these turbulent years. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.

Occupying Space In American Literature And Culture

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Author : Ana M. Manzanas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-24

Occupying Space In American Literature And Culture written by Ana M. Manzanas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations, enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the body, the ground zero of spatiality, to the texturology of Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener" on Wall Street, to the striated spaces of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low, the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany, NY, during the Depression, to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings together these spatial narratives, the volume reveals how, beyond the boundaries that characterize each space, every location has loose ends that are impossible to contain.

American Literature In Context

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Author : Andrew Hook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-20

American Literature In Context written by Andrew Hook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this third volume of American Literature in Context focuses on the struggles of American writers to make sense of their rapidly changing world. In addition to such major figures as Walt Whitman, Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, it analyses the writings of an unorthodox economist (Henry George), a Utopian reformer (Edward Bellamy) and a critical sociologist (Thorstein Veblen). Particular attention is paid to the challenge to conventional literary and cultural values represented by writers such as William Dean Howell who pursued a new form of scientific, democratic realism in American writing. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.

Apocalypse In American Literature And Culture

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Author : John Hay
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-17

Apocalypse In American Literature And Culture written by John Hay and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.

The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.

The City In American Literature And Culture

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Author : Kevin R. McNamara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-05

The City In American Literature And Culture written by Kevin R. McNamara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with History categories.

This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

Epic In American Culture

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Author : Christopher N. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-05

Epic In American Culture written by Christopher N. Phillips and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05 with Art categories.

This book investigates the concept of what it means to be 'epic' and its form in American life, literature, and art from the country's early days.

American Literature And Culture In An Age Of Cold War

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Author : Steven Belletto
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2012-10

American Literature And Culture In An Age Of Cold War written by Steven Belletto and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

Authors and artists discussed include: Joseph Conrad, Edwin Denby, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Berbert, Richard Kim, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Alan Nadel, and John Updike,

A Companion To American Literature And Culture

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Author : Paul Lauter
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-02-12

A Companion To American Literature And Culture written by Paul Lauter and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-12 with Literary Criticism categories.

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more * Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter * Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices * Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature