Author: American Literary ScholarshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
American Literary Scholarship - 1993
Author: American Literary ScholarshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
American Literary Naturalism
Author: Donald PizerPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1785275488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism. Of these, two seek to describe the movement as a whole, six are on specific writers or works (with an emphasis on Theodore Dreiser), and two reprint informative interviews by Pizer on the subject. The essays reflect Pizer’s mature engagement of the subject he has spent a lifetime exploring.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author: Steven H. GalePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362276
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
The Theory of Literary Criticism
Author: John M. EllisPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 7, Modernism and the New Criticism
Author: George Alexander KennedyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521300124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.
Textual Scholarship
Author: David C. GreethamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136755799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-DadyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314179
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Creating American Civilization
Author: David R. ShumwayPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902517
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Sisterhood
Author: Courtney ThorssonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231555679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation. The Sisterhood tells the story of how this remarkable community transformed American writing and cultural institutions. Drawing on original interviews with Sisterhood members as well as correspondence, meeting minutes, and readings of their works, Courtney Thorsson explores the group’s everyday collaboration and profound legacy. The Sisterhood advocated for Black women writers at trade publishers and magazines such as Random House, Ms., and Essence, and eventually in academic departments as well—often in the face of sexist, racist, and homophobic backlash. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political ties that brought the group together as well as the reasons for its dissolution. She considers the popular and critical success of Sisterhood members in the 1980s, the uneasy absorption of Black feminism into the academy, and how younger writers built on the foundations the group laid. Highlighting the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, this book demonstrates that The Sisterhood offers an enduring model for Black feminist collaboration.