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America and Other Fictions

Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785358464
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book America and Other Fictions written by Ed Simon and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the need for an Augustinian left, legacies of American violence, speaking in tongues, the humanities facing climate change, the maturity of realizing that you will die, how to sail towards Utopia, and witches. 'Ed Simon’s essays help readers to understand how we got to this complicated moment in American religious history. Deft, thoughtful, and creatively told.' Kaya Oakes, author of Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture

Fictions of America

Author : Ulrich Baer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735778983
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of America written by Ulrich Baer and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented compendium of milestones in the history of American literature. Presents all of the "first" literary works that broke barriers and inaugurated new traditions; with concise introductions.

Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics

Author : S. Salaita
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603378
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics written by S. Salaita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.

Western Avenue and Other Fictions

Author : Fred Arroyo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816502331
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Western Avenue and Other Fictions written by Fred Arroyo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by Fred Arroyo.

Zero and Other Fictions

Author : Fan Huang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231157401
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Zero and Other Fictions written by Fan Huang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of huang Fan's work in English. The anthology includes 'Zero', a futuristic novella that won the Unitas Prize, and three critically acclaimed short stories.

Atlas of Another America

Author : Keith Krumwiede
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038600022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Another America written by Keith Krumwiede and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Owning a home is a cornerstone of the American Dream, the ultimate status symbol in the land of the free. But is the dream in crisis? Mass-marketed and endlessly multiplied, the suburban single-family house has become an instrument of global economic calamity and ongoing environmental catastrophe. Never before have we been so badly in need of a reassessment of our cultural values from an architectural perspective."--Back cover.

Aggressive Fictions

Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462878
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Aggressive Fictions written by Kathryn Hume and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers—or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fiction." Why would authors risk alienating their readers—and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy. In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion.

If God Meant to Interfere

Author : Christopher Douglas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703528
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book If God Meant to Interfere written by Christopher Douglas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.

California and the Fictions of Capital

Author : George L. Henderson
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592131983
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book California and the Fictions of Capital written by George L. Henderson and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part a tour of California as a virtual laboratory for refining the circulation of capital, and in part an investigation of how the state's literati, with rare exception, reconceived economy in the name of class, gender, and racial privilege, this study will appeal to all students and scholars of California's—And The American West's—economic, environmental, and cultural past. Author note:George L. Hendersonis Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota.

American Circumstance

Author : Patricia Leavy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463005765
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book American Circumstance written by Patricia Leavy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel about appearance versus reality – how our lives and relationships appear to others versus how they are experienced, and the complex ways that social class shapes identity, relationships, and the codes of friendship. American Circumstance also provides a window into the replication of wealth, power, and privilege. The novel can be used as supplemental reading in courses across the disciplines that deal with gender, social class, inequality, power, family systems, relational communication, intimate relationships, identity, American culture, narrative or creative writing. It can also be read in book clubs or entirely for pleasure. “American Circumstance is wonderful! The characters and story invite you into a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Highly recommended!!” – Carl Leggo, Ph.D., University of British Columbia “American Circumstance kept me up! I wanted to see how the characters’ lives untangled. I loved how Leavy challenged my cultural assumptions. Students will have a lot to talk about as they discover the 'sociology of everyday life' embedded in the fiction.” – Laurel Richardson, Ph.D., The Ohio State University “The characters were so compelling that I couldn’t stop reading ... a great beach read, or class text.” – U. Melissa Anyiwo, Ph.D., Curry College “Leavy writes in an engaging way that helps you ask important questions about class issues in America. This story keeps you interested and wondering why women make the choices they do.” – Margaret A. Robbins, The Journal of Language & Literacy Education “American Circumstance is one of my favorite texts to assign to my sociology students.” – Cheryl Llewellyn, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an award-winning independent sociologist and best-selling author.

Foundational Fictions

Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520913868
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Foundational Fictions written by Doris Sommer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-05-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.

Hybrid Fictions

Author : Daniel Grassian
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648358X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Hybrid Fictions written by Daniel Grassian and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, academics have theorized that literature is on its way to becoming obsolete or, at the very least, has lost part of its power as an influential medium of social and cultural critique. This work argues against that misconception and maintains that contemporary American literature is not only alive and well but has grown in significant ways that reflect changes in American culture during the last twenty years. In addition, this work argues that beginning in the 1980s, a new, allied generation of American writers, born from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, has emerged, whose hybrid fiction blend distinct elements of previous American literary movements and contain divided social, cultural and ethnic allegiances. The author explores psychological, philosophical, ethnic and technological hybridity. The author also argues for the importance of and need for literature in contemporary America and considers its future possibilities in the realms of the Internet and hypertext. David Foster Wallace, Neal Stephenson, Douglas Coupland, Sherman Alexie, William Vollmann, Michele Serros and Dave Eggers are among the writers whose hybrid fictions are discussed.

Multicultural American Literature

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578066445
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Multicultural American Literature written by A. Robert Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions

Author : Robert Shulman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826207265
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions written by Robert Shulman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing market society of the nineteenth century had a deep impact on American writers and their works. The writers responded with important insights into the alienation brought on by the country's capitalist development. Shulman uses theorists from Tocqueville to Gramsci and the New Left historians, as well as drawing on other recent historical and critical studies, to examine major nineteenth-century American works as they illuminate and are illuminated by their society. Using works by Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Chesnutt, Walt Witman, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser, he shows the urgency, energy, and variety of response that capitalism elicited from a range of writers.

American Fictions

Author : Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780375754821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book American Fictions written by Elizabeth Hardwick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant introduction to American writers and their fictions, covering over 100 years of literature by Hawthorne, Dreiser, Melville, Wharton, James, Stein, Plath, Cheever, and others.

Adulthood and Other Fictions

Author : Sari Edelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198831889
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Adulthood and Other Fictions written by Sari Edelstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to the census; schools were organized around age groups; birthday cards were mass-produced; geriatrics became a medical specialty. Adulthood and Other Fictions reads American literature as a rich, critical account of this modern culture of age, and it examines how our most well-known writers registeredand often resistedage expectations, particularly as they applied to women and people of color. More than simply adding age to the list of identity categories that have become de rigeur sites of scholarly attention, Adulthood and Other Fictions argues that these other measures of social location (race, gender, sexuality, class) are largely legible through the seemingly more natural and essential identity defined by age. That is, longstanding cultural ideals about maturity and development anchor ideologies of heterosexuality, race, nationalism, and capitalism, and in this sense, age rhetoric serves as one of our most pervasive disciplinary discourses. Writers including Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James anticipated the ageism of our moment, but they also recognized how age norms both structure and limit the lives of individuals at all points on the age continuum. Ultimately, the volume argues for an intersectional understanding of age that challenges the celebration of independence and autonomy imbricated in US fantasies of adulthood and in American identity itself.

Furnace of this World

Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789041260
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Furnace of this World written by Ed Simon and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Roland Barthes' Mythologies and Walter Benjamin's aphoristic Theses on the Philosophy of History, Ed Simon's Furnace of this World is a fragmentary, digressive, impressionistic account of what the radical implications of goodness could possibly be in late capitalism. Furnace of this World interrogates the concept of goodness, while arguing that it's always more interesting and radical than its opposite. With neither hubris nor reductionism, Furnace of this World speaks of what it means to pursue justice in a fallen world.