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Author : William C. Spengemann
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Mirror for Americanists written by William C. Spengemann and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William C. Spengemann
Publisher : Hanover, NH : Published for Dartmouth College by University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 9780874514834
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (148 download)
Download or read book A Mirror for Americanists written by William C. Spengemann and published by Hanover, NH : Published for Dartmouth College by University Press of New England. This book was released on 1989 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. C. De Prospo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611496004
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Latest Early American Literature written by R. C. De Prospo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latest Early American Literature, according to readers for the University of Delaware Press, is “a collection of polemics and manifestoes.” In it R. C. De Prospo bids to follow in the footsteps of the two, rare, early Americanist dissenters whom Philip F. Gura once distinguished as “prophets without honor in the field”: William Spengemann and Michael Colacurcio. The book contends that a supposedly retired nationalist/modernist “telos” continues to reign in most of the latest scholarship, and even more influentially in all of the current literary histories and anthologies, no matter how expansive in gender, ethnic, racial, and “hemispheric” inclusiveness they profess to be. Old teloi, in particular that old American exceptionalist one, can be cunning. Updating and expanding upon essays written over the past thirty years, De Prospo proposes not only negatively to critique how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earlier ones, but positively to propose how a transnationalist concession—that as a neocolonial culture America’s lags behind that of Europe—might advance post-modern historiography by radically repositioning the past as no longer the present’s diachronic predecessor but, to quote Lyotard’s semiotics, its synchronic “differend.” Closer to earth, De Prospo tries at the same time to remain mindful of the pedagogical imperative that ultimately to save the texts of early American literature will require making them legible to average non-specialist, never-to-become specialist undergraduate general education students. To facilitate this he introduces in the concluding section of The Latest Early American Literature what will probably be taken as its most radical intervention: the redefinition of Edgar Allan Poe as an early American writer.
Author : Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382644
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon written by Donald E. Pease and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organizing principles and self-understanding of the field of American Studies. Originally published as a special issue of boundary 2, the essays gathered here discuss writers as diverse as Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Melville, W. D. Howells, Henry James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Mark Twain, plus the historical figure John Brown. Two major sections devoted to the theory of romance and to cultural-historical analyses emphasize the political perspective of "New Americanist" literary and cultural study. Contributors. William E. Cain, Wai-chee Dimock, Howard Horwitz, Gregory S. Jay, Steven Mailloux, John McWilliams, Susan Mizruchi, Donald E. Pease, Ivy Schweitzer, Priscilla Wald, Michael Warner, Robert Weimann
Author : Steven A. Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Soviet Americanists written by Steven A. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200691
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Transatlantic Insurrections written by Paul Giles and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Paul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transatlantic counterpart. Using the American Revolution as the fulcrum of his argument, Giles describes how the impulse to go beyond conventions of British culture was crucial in the establishment of a distinct identity for American literature. Similarly, he explains the consolidation of British cultural identity partly as a response to the need to suppress the memory and consequences of defeat in the American revolutionary wars. Giles ranges over neglected American writers such as Mather Byles and the Connecticut Wits as well as better-known figures like Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, and Hawthorne. He reads their texts alongside those of British authors such as Pope, Richardson, Equiano, Austen, and Trollope. Taking issue with more established utopian narratives of American literature, Transatlantic Insurrections analyzes how elements of blasphemous, burlesque humor entered into the making of the subject.
Author : Tobias Döring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415886376
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Edward Said's Translocations written by Tobias Döring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model, he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of "civil society" in contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival models, including those found in the work of scholars such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Benjamin Barber, and Nancy Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. According to his idealization, groups of citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility, tolerance, curiosity, and moderation. Moreover, their regard for the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative democracy and their regard for democratic virtues, principles, and practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian, however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages, that it faces a variety of barriers, and that it cannot be realized without luck.
Author : Ezra Tawil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295293
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Literature, American Style written by Ezra Tawil and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly "American" tradition. No one had yet figured out, however, what it would mean to write like an American, what literature with an American origin would look like, nor what literary characteristics the elusive quality of Americanness could generate. Literature, American Style returns to this historical moment—decades before the romantic nationalism of Cooper, the transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, or the iconoclastic poetics of Whitman—when a fantasy about the unique characteristics of U.S. literature first took shape, and when that notion was linked to literary style. While late eighteenth-century U.S. literature advertised itself as the cultural manifestation of a radically innovative nation, Ezra Tawil argues, it was not primarily marked by invention or disruption. In fact, its authors self-consciously imitated European literary traditions while adapting them to a new cultural environment. These writers gravitated to the realm of style, then, because it provided a way of sidestepping the uncomfortable reality of cultural indebtedness; it was their use of style that provided a way of departing from European literary precedents. Tawil analyzes Noah Webster's plan to reform the American tongue; J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's fashioning of an extravagantly naïve American style from well-worn topoi; Charles Brockden Brown's adaptations of the British gothic; and the marriage of seduction plots to American "plain style" in works such as Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette. Each of these works claims to embody something "American" in style yet, according to Tawil, remains legible only in the context of stylistic, generic, and conceptual forms that animated English cultural life through the century.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Prose written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winfried Fluck
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823341697
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism and Literary Studies written by Winfried Fluck and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don D. Fowler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817313125
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology written by Don D. Fowler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ContributorsLawrence E. AtenElin C. DanienDon D. FowlerAlice B. KehoeFrances Joan MathienJerald T. MilanichRobert L. SchuylerSteven ConnRegna DarnellCurtis M. HinsleyEleanor M. KingDavid J. MeltzerJeremy A. SabloffDavid R. Wilcox
Author : Julia Straub
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110393417
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies written by Julia Straub and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of ‘influence,’ transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times. This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.
Author : Francesco Pontuale
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433101885
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book In Their Own Terms written by Francesco Pontuale and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a historical period of international and global frames of literary investigation, In Their Own Terms is a timely and valuable contribution to cross-cultural forms of dialogue between non-American modes of analysis and US American literary studies. It is a wide-ranging and provocative look into American literary historiography that engages readers in analytical examinations of US literary histories considered landmarks in their field, from the early nineteenth-century work of Samuel L. Knapp to the newly completed Cambridge volumes. It focuses on texts that have had a decisive influence in constructing dominant understandings of American literature, its various genres, significant historical periods, and major writers, both inside and outside the United States. For the first time, this work compares and contrasts the tradition of US literary historiography with Italian histories of American literature. Characterized as they are by the particularities of the Italian cultural scene, these histories have always been conversant with US literary historiography, beginning with Gustavo Strafforello in 1884 and continuing in Agostino Lombardo's most recent series. In Their Own Terms cogently argues that American literary histories, regardless of the different critical and theoretical principles on which they are based, have invariably played an important role in national cohesion and in articulating an autonomy that is cultural as well as academic.
Author : Robert Lawson-Peebles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870387
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book American Literature Before 1880 written by Robert Lawson-Peebles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.
Author : Christine Gerhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110481324
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century written by Christine Gerhardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311072
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Theater Enough written by Jeffrey H. Richards and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they developed an ideology of theater that expressed their sense of history, as well as their version of life in the New World. Theater Enough provides an innovative analysis of early American culture by examining the rhetorical shaping of the experience of settlement in the new land through the metaphor of theater. The rhetoric, or discourse, of early American theater emerged out of the figures of speech that permeated the colonists' lives and literary productions. Jeffrey H. Richards examines a variety of texts--histories, diaries, letters, journals, poems, sermons, political tracts, trial transcripts, orations, and plays--and looks at the writings of such authors as John Winthrop and Mercy Otis Warren. Richards places the American usage of theatrum mundi--the world depicted as a stage--in the context of classical and Renaissance traditions, but shows how the trope functions in American rhetoric as a register for religious, political, and historical attitudes.
Author : Brook Thomas
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823341680
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Literature and the Nation written by Brook Thomas and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
