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  • The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

    af Jasper Bernes ...
    Serier serie Post*45
    A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives. Over the last few decades, we have seen the shift from an economy based on the production of goods to one based on the provision of services, the entry of large numbers of women ... Læs mere

    240,53 kr.

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  • Leo Tolstoy: The Classics Collection [newly updated] [19 Novels and Novellas] (Golden Deer Classics)

    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

    Redigeret af Robert S. Levine ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new ... Læs mere

    280,62 kr.

  • The Vonnegut Effect

    A defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut's fictionKurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors.In this innovative study of the author's ... Læs mere

    190,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Slippery Characters

    Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

    af Laura Browder ...
    Serier serie Cultural Studies of the United States
    In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant’s narrative I Am a Woman — and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace’s former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, ... Læs mere

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  • The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture

    Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

    af B. Murphy ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts. ... Læs mere

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  • Hemingway and Women

    Female Critics and the Female Voice

    Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writersErnest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from women scholars who challenge traditional views of Hemingway and women. The essays in this collection range ... Læs mere

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  • Trauma Narratives and Herstory

    Redigeret af S. Andermahr, S. Pellicer-Ortin ...
    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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  • Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction

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  • The Life of Robert Frost

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    af Henry Hart ...
    Serier serie Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost's ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost's poetry.A widely revealing biography of Frost that discusses his often perplexing journey from humble roots to poetic fame, revealing new details of Frost ... Læs mere

    279,11 kr.

  • Shock and Awe

    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the ... Læs mere

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  • Teaching Tainted Lit

    Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom

    Redigeret af Janet G. Casey ...
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