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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-06
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The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked religious and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-02
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No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-26
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A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition,A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage. Kevin J. Hayes charts this history through a series of approachable thematic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-10
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This book discusses works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow in terms of the conflicts between rhetorical people (actors replete with ever-changing roles, situations, and strategies, and therefore devoid of single roles) and serious people (actors who possess master...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-11-18
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Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, PragmaticModernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-11-07
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Beyond speculation, analysis and evaluation of different hypotheses, this collection of essays is an attempt to provide innovative and multidisciplinary perspectives from the current point of view of our newly born 21st century about Edgar Allan Poe’s life and works,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-04
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Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy, Amherst College Amherst,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-21
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This volume attempts to critically re-think the ways in which facts and myths, histories and fictions that shape current and past understandings of (the US of) «America» have been perceived, assimilated, transformed and, in sum, «translated» in the arena of global...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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James Tate is one of America’s most respected and senior poets, whose influence is increasingly widespread. However, his whimsical play has long challenged critics to read him with any depth. After winning the Yale Prize in 1967 for his first book, The Lost Pilot,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-28
Collection :
Reading the Novel
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When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny. The next move, however, was hotly contested: should the U.S. annex...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-29
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The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between Jefferson and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
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Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs – the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
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Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
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Crossing Cultures/Cruzando culturas focuses on the creation of literary works and how these works reflect the life experiences of the authors. The purpose of this book is to inspire young Mexican-American, Hispanic, and Latino people by demonstrating that education is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-06-27
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Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-05-27
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