Author: Walter Taylor FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Readings from English and American Literature
Author: Walter Taylor FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Readings in American Literature
Author: Roy Bennett PacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Readings at the Edge of Literature
Author: Myra JehlenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226396010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Myra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. It is here, she argues, that the central paradoxes of the American project become clear—self-reliance and responsibility, universal equality and the pursuit of empire, writing from the heart and representing shared values and ideas. Developing these paradoxes to their utmost tension, American writers often produce penetrating critiques of American society without puncturing its basic myths. For instance, Mark Twain's Puddn'head Wilson begins as a slashing satire of racism, only to conclude by demonstrating that even an invisible portion of black blood can make a man a murderer. Throughout these essays Jehlen demonstrates the crucial role that the process of writing itself plays in unfolding these paradoxes, whether in the form of novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Virginia Woolf; the histories of Captain John Smith; or even a work of architecture, such as the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction
Author: A. Graham-BertoliniPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230110908
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics
Author: S. SalaitaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230603378
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.
Readings from American Literature
Author: Mary Edwards CalhounPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature
Author: Fred Lewis PatteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Readings in American Literature (Classic Reprint)
Author: Roy Bennett PacePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331337737
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Excerpt from Readings in American Literature This volume is designed to accompany the editor's American Literature, and the selections were made to represent the authors there treated. While it is intended that the history and the Readings be used together, the latter have been compiled in accordance with suggestions from many sources; and the editor believes that they will prove useful with any history of American literature. No effort has been made to include college entrance requirements, most of which are available in cheap and attractive editions. On the other hand, more space than is usual in a book of this kind is given to literature produced before 1800. This has been done because the material is quaint and interesting, and is less accessible to high school students than nineteenth century writings. The editor feels confident that results will repay a generous expenditure of time on the early writers. In preparing the Readings, the best texts accessible have been used; but it has not seemed necessary in a high school book to indicate the editions, unless required by the copyright provisions of the authorized publishers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Readings in American Literature
Author: John Calvin MetcalfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings
Author: Sarah Emma SimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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