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American Tradition in Literature

Author: George Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780075546627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4000

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American Tradition in Literature

Author: George Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780075546627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4000

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Inventing American Tradition

Author: Jack David Eller
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States—a nation born with relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent (and controversial) the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related to such divisive forces as the trauma of the Civil War or fears for American identity stemming from immigration and socialism. In pithy, entertaining chapters, Inventing American Tradition explores a set of beloved traditions spanning political symbols, holidays, lifestyles, and fictional characters—everything from the anthem to the American flag, blue jeans, and Mickey Mouse. Shedding light on the individuals who created these traditions and their motivations for promoting them, Jack David Eller reveals the murky, conflicted, confused, and contradictory history of emblems and institutions we very often take to be the bedrock of America. What emerges from this sideways take on our most celebrated Americanisms is the realization that all traditions are invented by particular people at particular times for particular reasons, and that the process of “traditioning” is forever ongoing—especially in the land of the free.

The American Tradition in Literature

Author: George B. Perkins
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN: 9780072491661
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2100

Book Description
Widely known as the anthology that best meshes tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature enters its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American Literature. Literary merit remains the guiding principle of selection; flexibility of organization, with Walt Whitman represented in both volumes, continues to be one of the text's hallmarks.

The American Tradition in Literature (concise) book alone

Author: George Perkins
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780073384894
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2352

Book Description
Widely known as the anthology that best unites tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature is proud to enter its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American literature. Each volume continues to offer a flexible organization, with literary merit as the guiding principle of selection. The new photos and illustrations illuminate the texts and literary/historical timelines help students put works in context.

The American Tradition in Literature

Author: Mark Stanley Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780073221533
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1(book alone)

Author: Barbara Perkins
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780077239046
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

African American Writers & Classical Tradition

Author: William W. Cook
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226789985
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era and on into the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our understanding of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of “classic” writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.