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  • The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

    di Jasper Bernes ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    25,47 €

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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 ... Altre info

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

    Rivisto da Robert S. Levine ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    25,89 €

  • 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 ... Altre info

    22,45 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Slippery Characters

    Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

    di Laura Browder ...
    Serie series 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, ... Altre info

    26,72 €

  • The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture

    Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

    di B. Murphy ...
    Serie series 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. ... Altre info

    79,55 €

  • 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 ... Altre info

    26,20 €

  • Trauma Narratives and Herstory

    Serie series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification. ... Altre info

    46,79 €

  • Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction

    Serie series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    How have twentieth-century writers used techniques in fiction to communicate the human experience of time? Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction explores this question by analyzing major narratives of the last century that demonstrate how time becomes variously manifested to reflect and illuminate its operation in our lives.Offering close readings of both modernist and non-modernist ... Altre info

    67,09 €

  • The Life of Robert Frost

    A Critical Biography

    di Henry Hart ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    33,99 €

  • 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 ... Altre info

    29,94 €

  • Teaching Tainted Lit

    Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom

    Rivisto da Janet G. Casey ...
    Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain. If the academy has historically ignored, or even sneered at, the popular, then its new accommodation ... Altre info

    19,65 €