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Mythic America An Anthology Of New American Poetry
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Author : Jeremy Mark Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-17
Mythic America An Anthology Of New American Poetry written by Jeremy Mark Robinson and has been published by Crescent Moon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Poetry categories.
MYTHIC AMERICA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW AMERICAN POETRY Part of the Pagan American Series Edited by Jeremy Mark Robinson A book of passionate poetry from North America and Canada. There are many new poems published here, many young poets, and poets being published for the first time. Some of the writers have been published in small magazines in the U.S.A., while others, such as Siouxsie D, have given poetry readings. The term 'pagan' is used very loosely here, to denote a poetry of a religious, spiritual, mystical or magical nature. Many poems in this book are love poems. There are pieces in the contemplative tradition of Rainer Maria Rilke or the Metaphysical poets. One can discern elements of the American poetic tradition in the poets here: the nature mysticism of Robert Frost, the expansive calls-to-arms of Walt Whitman, the incisiveness of Laura Riding, or the laid-back, anecdotal style of Charles Bukowski. The Pagan America Series includes volumes of new love poetry by women poets, entitled Love in America, Sex in America and Erotic America. Other titles are: Pagan America, Sacred America and Magical America. Includes notes on contributors. www.crmoon.com
Mythic America
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Author : Jeremy Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Release Date : 1993
Mythic America written by Jeremy Robinson and has been published by Hyperion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with American poetry categories.
The Mythic West In Twentieth Century America
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Author : Robert G. Athearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Mythic West In Twentieth Century America written by Robert G. Athearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
Briefly describes life in the West, and discusses the ephemeral nature of the region, western towns, the tourist industry, agriculture, fiction, and the ecology movement.
Virtual Americas
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Author : Paul Giles
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-15
Virtual Americas written by Paul Giles and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks at a number of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers by focusing on their interactions with British culture. He demonstrates how American authors from Herman Melville to Thomas Pynchon have been compulsively drawn to negotiate with British culture so that their nationalist agendas have emerged, paradoxically, through transatlantic dialogues. Virtual Americas ultimately suggests that conceptions of national identity in both the United States and Britain have emerged through engagement with—and, often, deliberate exclusion of—ideas and imagery emanating from across the Atlantic. Throughout Virtual Americas Giles focuses on specific examples of transatlantic cultural interactions such as Frederick Douglass’s experiences and reputation in England; Herman Melville’s satirizing fictions of U.S. and British nationalism; and Vladimir Nabokov’s critique of European high culture and American popular culture in Lolita. He also reverses his perspective, looking at the representation of San Francisco in the work of British-born poet Thom Gunn and Sylvia Plath’s poetic responses to England. Giles develops his theory about the need to defamiliarize the study of American literature by considering the cultural legacy of Surrealism as an alternative genealogy for American Studies and by examining the transatlantic dimensions of writers such as Henry James and Robert Frost in the context of Surrealism.
Norman Mailer Mythic America And The Limits Of History
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Author : Joseph Wenke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Norman Mailer Mythic America And The Limits Of History written by Joseph Wenke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with American literature categories.
U2 S The Joshua Tree
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Author : Bradley Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-12-01
U2 S The Joshua Tree written by Bradley Morgan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-01 with Music categories.
U2 planted the seeds for The Joshua Tree during an existential journey through America. As Irishmen in the 1970s, the band grew up with the belief that America was a place of freedom and prosperity, a symbol of hope and a refuge for all people. However, global politics of the 1980s undermined that impression and fostered hypocritical policies that manipulated Americans and devastated people around the world. Originally conceived as "The Two Americas," The Joshua Tree was U2's critique of America. Rather than living up to the ideal that the country was "an idea that belongs to people who need it most," the band found that America sacrificed equality and justice for populism and fascism. This book explores the political, social, and cultural themes rooted in The Joshua Tree when it was originally released in 1987 and how those themes resonated as a response to the election of Donald Trump when U2 toured for the album's 30th anniversary. The author juxtaposes the band's existential journey through America with his own journey connecting with his Irish roots by becoming a citizen in the age of Trump and places U2's and The Joshua Tree's relevance in context with the current political climate.
Postcolonial America
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Author : C. Richard King
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
Postcolonial America written by C. Richard King and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Civilization categories.
Scholars from a wide array of disciplines describe and debate postcolonialism as it applies to America in this authoritative and timely collection. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, Postcolonial America clarifies and challenges prevailing conceptualizations of postcolonialism and accepted understandings of American culture. Advancing multiple, even conflicted visions of postcolonial America, this important volume interrogates postcolonial theory and traces the emergence and significance of postcolonial practices and precepts in the United States. Contributors discuss how the unique status of the United States as the colony that became a superpower has shaped its sense of itself. They assess the global networks of inequality that have displaced neocolonial systems of conquest, exploitation, and occupation. They also examine how individuals and groups use music, the Internet, and other media to reconfigure, reinvent, and resist postcoloniality in American culture. Candidly facing the inherent contradictions of "the American experience," this collection demonstrates the patterns, connections, and histories characteristic of postcoloniality in America and initiates important discussions about how these conditions might be changed.
Reagan And Public Discourse In America
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Author : Michael Weiler
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2006-08-27
Reagan And Public Discourse In America written by Michael Weiler and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A critical assessment of the impact of the administration of President Ronald Reagan on public discourse in the United States The authors show that more than any president since John F. Kennedy, Reagan’s influence flowed from his rhetorical practices. And he is remembered as having reversed certain trends and cast the U.S. on a new course. The contributors to this insightful collection of essays show that Reagan’s rhetorical tactics were matters of primary concern to his administration’s chief political strategists.
Myth America
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Author : Patrick Gerster
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2006-07-21
Myth America written by Patrick Gerster and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-21 with History categories.
The idea for Myth America grew out of our won teaching experiences.In continuously dealing with students who for the most part werebeginning their collegiate study of American history, we found thata thematic approach to the nation's past was stimulating. The themeof myth as threads within the diverse tapestry of culturalexperience proved to be especially engaging. The selected historical myths discussed and analyzed in MythAmerica can best be understood as a series of false beliefs aboutAmerica's past. They are false beliefs, however, that have beenaccepted as true and acted upon as real, and in that acting theyhave acquired truth. Therefore, myths remain both true and falsesimultaneously. In fact, the making of myths is a process by whicha culture structures its world and perpetuates its grandestdreams. While offering a strong foundation of classic historical writingand interpretation, Myth America includes numerous fresh selectionson womens' history, southerners and American regionalism, popularculture, African American stereotyping, urban America,controversial leaders such as Booker T. Washington, progressivismin relation to both conservation and ethnicity, the nature andlegacy of the Great War, World War II, and Vietnam, PresidentKennedy and Reagan, mythic dynamics of the Cold War,Asian-Americans, and multiculturalism. We have been guided in ourfinal selections by a desire to offer articles that voice ourmythic theme in a scholarly and provocative way: articles thatoffer students readability and current interest without sacrificingthe demands of thorough historical scholarship. We occasionallyrefer to historiography, for historians function as the culture'spreeminent storytellers and so maintain their seeminglycontradictory roles of mythmakers and myth-debunkers.
Hart Crane S Poetry
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Author : John T. Irwin
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-11-17
Hart Crane S Poetry written by John T. Irwin and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing—misspelling and all—the great French poet’s cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should relate to some European school of thought, Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic of Crane, gives readers the first major interpretation of the poet’s work in decades. Irwin aims to show that Hart Crane’s epic The Bridge is the best twentieth-century long poem in English. Irwin convincingly argues that, compared to other long poems of the century, The Bridge is the richest and most wide-ranging in its mythic and historical resonances, the most inventive in its combination of literary and visual structures, the most subtle and compelling in its psychological underpinnings. Irwin brings a wealth of new and varied scholarship to bear on his critical reading of the work—from art history to biography to classical literature to philosophy—revealing The Bridge to be the near-perfect synthesis of American myth and history that Crane intended. Irwin contends that the most successful entryway to Crane’s notoriously difficult shorter poems is through a close reading of The Bridge. Having admirably accomplished this, Irwin analyzes Crane’s poems in White Buildings and his last poem, "The Broken Tower," through the larger context of his epic, showing how Crane, in the best of these, worked out the structures and images that were fully developed in The Bridge. Thoughtful, deliberate, and extraordinarily learned, this is the most complete and careful reading of Crane’s poetry available. Hart Crane may have lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but, as Irwin masterfully shows, his poems stand among the greatest written in the English language.