Author: John CottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catechisms
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The New England Primer
Author: John CottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catechisms
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Word in Black and White
Author: Dana D. NelsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195089278
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Dana Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism. Nelson shows how a novel such as The Last of the Mohicans sought to reify the Anglo historical past and simultaneously suggested strategies that would serve Anglo-Americans against Native Americans as the frontier pushed farther west. Concluding her work with a reading of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Nelson shows how that text undercuts the racist structures of the pre-Civil War period by positing a revised model of sympathy that authorizes alternative cultural perspectives and requires Anglo-Americans to question their own involvement with racism.
A Writing Studies Primer
Author: Joyce KinkeadPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770488154
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Writing is omnipresent in our lives, yet we rarely stop and consider its history and material culture. This volume introduces student readers to the development of writing across time and societies. The book incorporates autoethnography and asks readers to consider writing histories, influences, processes, and tools in their own lives. Short readings are included for each chapter. Designed for composition courses with a Writing About Writing focus or courses in Writing Studies, A Writing Studies Primer is a distinctive, visually engaging introduction to writing through its material culture.
The Meaning of Rivers
Author: T. S. McMillinPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 158729978X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey’s Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of “nature” require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.
The Revised Latin Primer
Author: Benjamin Hall KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : la
Pages : 252
Book Description
An American Primer
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry A. BeersPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752368136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. Beers
Essays and Reviews
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450196
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Gathers Poe's essays on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, the role of the critic, leading nineteenth-century writers, and the New York literary world.
Specifying
Author: Susan WillisPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299108946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Focusing on Zola Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, this book explores both the ways in which black women's fictions have been shaped by the history of the United states, and the ways in which they intervene in that history. She sees the transition from an agrarian to an urban society as the critical moment of that history, and argues that writings by black women articulate that change in their content as well as form. ISBN 0-299-10890-2 : $19.95.
The Constitution of Literature
Author: Lee MorrisseyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804757867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Constitution of Literature examines Restoration and eighteenth-century literary criticism as a debate over theories of reading and argues that literary criticism emerged as a reaction against the role associated with print in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s.