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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction A. Graham-Bertolini 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... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-09-26 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Bret Easton Ellis G. Colby This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-08-15 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Writing Celebrity T. Galow Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary" writing in the decades before World War II. The second two sections... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-06-06 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature E. Mercer This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-05-09 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction M. Hurst Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-04-11 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction C. Kocela This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-09-10 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Norman Mailer's Later Fictions J. Whalen-Bridge Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest (2007) - to examine, for the first time in a full volume, Mailer s... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-05-24 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Feminist Readings of Edith Wharton D. Chambers This close and innovative study of Edith Wharton's major novels reveals the use of increasingly complex narrative techniques to counter the multiple forces working against women writers at the beginning of the twentieth century. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-11-23 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 78,87 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682–1826 D. Macneil The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-11-23 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race S. Kim Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-11-23 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies C. Seltzer This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-07-20 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cormac McCarthy K. Lincoln This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-12-22 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Narrating Class in American Fiction W. Dow Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-12-22 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Culture of Soft Work H. Hicks The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-12-22 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature L. Smith The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-08-04 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery M. Macarthur Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale. Drawing on biography, cultural history, and original archival research,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-08-04 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Anti-Hero in the American Novel D. Simmons The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-05-26 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism J. Haytock This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-04-28 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction A. Strong Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life, through attention to skin color, performance of racial... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-04-14 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction S. Halldorson This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2007-12-09 Collection : American Literature Readings in the 21st Century PDF 52,74 €
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