Télécharger le livre :  Revisioning Emerson as a Theorist of Reading
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Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of his published work to cultivate a unique understanding of his ideas in relation to reading. By following the history of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-31
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century
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This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin’s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-01
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Navigating Women's Friendships in American Literature and Culture
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This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-10
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-24
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  American Literature in the Era of Trumpism
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This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of Trumpism—understood as an ongoing sociopolitical and affective reality—by bringing together analyses of some of the ways in which American writers have responded to the derealization of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-23
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger
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This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a philosophical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-20
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time
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This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than a sexual one to explore how Edgar Allan Poe's literary works were frequently invested in imagining lives that contemporary readers can understand as queer,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-16
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-27
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Confessional Poetry in the Cold War
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This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-02-02
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Just War Theory and Literary Studies
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This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world. To do so, it explores Just War Theory (JWT) in relationship to recent American accounts of the experience of war. The book analyses the jus ad...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-01
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching Edith Wharton's Major Novels and Short Fiction
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This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-13
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture
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Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including pollution of waterways, environmental racism, and militarism....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-08
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Queering Memory and National Identity in Transcultural U.S. Literature and Culture
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This book examines the queer implications of memory and nationhood in transcultural U.S. literature and culture. Through an analysis of art and photography responding to the U.S. domestic response to 9/11, Iraq war fiction, representations of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-21
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Edith Wharton and Genre
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Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-11
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century
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Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-27
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity
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Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingway’s life and art. This book is a provocative and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the traumatic origins of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-06-24
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Henry James's Feminist Afterlives
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This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-28
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary American Memoirs in Action
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This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life.  Writers are repurposing the memoir, a genre known for its personal and expressive function, to engage in debate and serve political goals. ...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-14
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Cormac McCarthy's Philosophy
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This study contends that American writer Cormac McCarthy not only is philosophical, or a “writer of ideas,” but rather that he has a philosophy. Devoting one main chapter to each facet of McCarthy’s thought – his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, respectively – the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-07-10
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Moby-Dick and Melville's Anti-Slavery Allegory
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This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the “Ship of State” motif, Calhoun’s “cords,”...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-15
Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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