Revisions Of The American Adam
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Revisions Of The American Adam
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Author : Jonathan Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Revisions Of The American Adam written by Jonathan Mitchell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
A study that introduces, conceptualises, and examines the American Adam and American Psycho paradigms while focussing on the inter-relations between the two figures.
Revisions Of The American Adam
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Author : Jonathan Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Revisions Of The American Adam written by Jonathan Mitchell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth in US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of new adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and inherent resources", the figure is discernable in the American renaissance writers and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in the heroes of US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway over US identity in the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts, Jonathan Mitchell's study explores the complexities and contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to show how the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic US identity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.
The American Adam
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Author : R. W. B. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1955
The American Adam written by R. W. B. Lewis 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 1955 with History categories.
The first really original book on the classical period in American writing that has appeared for a long time.
Critical Essays On The Mith Of The American Adam
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Author : María Eugenia & Díaz
language : en
Publisher: Universidad de Salamanca
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Critical Essays On The Mith Of The American Adam written by María Eugenia & Díaz and has been published by Universidad de Salamanca this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Films Of Delmer Daves
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Author : Douglas Horlock
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-03-25
The Films Of Delmer Daves written by Douglas Horlock and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Delmer Daves (1904–1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly monograph has focused on his work. In The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, author Douglas Horlock contends that the director’s work warrants sustained scholarly attention. Examining all of Daves’s films, as well as his screenplays, scripts that were not filmed, and personal papers, Horlock argues that Daves was a serious, distinctive, and enlightened filmmaker whose work confronts the general conservatism of Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. Horlock considers Daves’s films through the lenses of political and social values, race and civil rights, and gender and sexuality. Ultimately, Horlock suggests that Daves’s work—through its examination of bigotry and irrational fear and depiction of institutional and personal morality and freedom—presents a consistent, innovative, and progressive vision of America.
Growing Up With America
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Author : Emily A. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Growing Up With America written by Emily A. Murphy and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Social Science categories.
When D. H. Lawrence wrote his classic study of American literature, he claimed that youth was the “true myth” of America. Beginning from this assertion, Emily A. Murphy traces the ways that youth began to embody national hopes and fears at a time when the United States was transitioning to a new position of world power. In the aftermath of World War II, persistent calls for the nation to “grow up” and move beyond innocence became common, and the child that had long served as a symbol of the nation was suddenly discarded in favor of a rebellious adolescent. This era marked the beginning of a crisis of identity, where literary critics and writers both sought to redefine U.S. national identity in light of the nation’s new global position. The figure of the adolescent is central to an understanding of U.S. national identity, both past and present, and of the cultural forms (e.g., literature) that participate in the ongoing process of representing the diverse experiences of Americans. In tracing the evolution of this youthful figure, Murphy revisits classics of American literature, including J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, alongside contemporary bestsellers. The influence of the adolescent on some of America’s greatest writers demonstrates the endurance of the myth that Lawrence first identified in 1923 and signals a powerful link between youth and one of the most persistent questions for the nation: What does it mean to be an American?
Food Culture Studies In India
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Author : Simi Malhotra
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-12-18
Food Culture Studies In India written by Simi Malhotra and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with Social Science categories.
This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning the consumption, representation and mediation of food. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on food fads; food representation; the symbolic valence of food; modes and manners of resistance articulated through food. Investigating consumption practices in both public and ethnic culture, each chapter introduces a fresh approach to food across diverse literary and cultural genres. The book offers a highly readable guide for researchers and practitioners in the field of literary and cultural studies, as well as the sociological fields of food studies, body studies and fat studies.
American Fiction In Transition
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Author : Adam Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-04-25
American Fiction In Transition written by Adam Kelly and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel. Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.
Literary Genealogy And The Politics Of Revision In The American Renaissance And The Harlem Renaissance
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Author : Anna Brickhouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Literary Genealogy And The Politics Of Revision In The American Renaissance And The Harlem Renaissance written by Anna Brickhouse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with African Americans in literature categories.
Reading Smile
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Author : Dale Carter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-31
Reading Smile written by Dale Carter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-31 with Music categories.
First conceived in 1966 but only completed in 2004, Brian Wilson Presents Smile has been called "the best-known unreleased album in pop music history" and "an American Sergeant Pepper." Reading Smile offers a close analysis of the recording in its social, cultural and historical contexts. It focuses in particular on the finished work’s subject matter as embodied in Van Dyke Parks’ contentious yet little understood lyrics, with their low-resolution, highly allusive portrayals of western expansion’s archetypes, from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts to Diamond Head, Hawaii. Documenting their multiple references and connotations, it argues that their invocations of national self-definition are part of a carefully crafted vision of American identity, society and culture both in tune and at odds with the times. Critical of the republic’s past practices but convinced that its ideals, values and myths still provided resources to redeem it, the recording is interpreted as a creative musical milestone, an enduring product of its volatile, radical, countercultural times, and an American pop art classic. Of particular relevance to American Studies and popular culture scholars, Reading Smile will also appeal to those interested in 1960s popular music, not least to fans of Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks and the Beach Boys.