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Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction

Author : Barbara Wiedemann
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9781575910079
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction written by Barbara Wiedemann and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Iowa and long-time resident of Pennsylvania, Josephine Herbst (1892-1969), well known and highly regarded in the 1930s, was the author of seven novels, twenty-seven short stories, a biography, and numerous journal and newspaper articles. In the current study, the first on Herbst's short fiction, the author provides a critical discussion of each of Herbst's stories, including relevant biographical and historical data.

Josephine Herbst

Author : Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Josephine Herbst written by Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Josephine Herbst

Author : Elinor Langer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Josephine Herbst written by Elinor Langer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life of the radical novelist and journalist.

Pity is Not Enough

Author : Josephine Herbst
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066528
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Pity is Not Enough written by Josephine Herbst and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else," Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded at storytelling. The book draws loosely on Herbst's family history, using Reconstruction's demise in Georgia to link the advance of free market capitalism to the North's abandonment of its commitment to racial justice. The protagonists-Catherine Trexler and her brother Joe, a carpetbagger embroiled in railroad scandals-are ripped apart financially and psychologically by competing codes of domesticity, Southern manners, and capitalism. In her introduction to the book, Mary Ann Rasmussen argues that Herbst was unlike many other 1930s Leftists in that she refused the "essentialist notions of gender difference that confounded radical men and women of her generation." Herbst's first two novels, published in the late 1920s, were praised by both Katherine Anne Porter and Ernest Hemingway, but the writer gained greater fame with the proletarian fiction and leftist journalism she wrote during the next decade. Though never a member of the Communist Party, Herbst was ostracized as a sympathizer and dismissed from a government job in 1942. Because she never repudiated her radical beliefs and lifestyle, her literary reputation suffered.

Josephine Herbst

Author : Dion Quintin Kempthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Josephine Herbst written by Dion Quintin Kempthorne and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Company of Radical Women Writers

Author : Rosemary Hennessy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452970068
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Radical Women Writers written by Rosemary Hennessy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black, Jewish, and white—who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide urgent, thought-provoking guidance for today. Rosemary Hennessy spotlights the courageous lives of women who confronted similar challenges to those we still face: exhausting and unfair labor practices, unrelenting racial injustice, and environmental devastation. As Hennessy brilliantly shows, the documentary journalism and creative and biographical writings of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Alice Childress, Josephine Herbst, Meridel Le Sueur, and Muriel Rukeyser recognized that life is sustained across a web of dependencies that we each have a duty to maintain. Their work brought into sharp focus the value and dignity of Black women’s domestic work, confronted the destructive myths of land exploitation and white supremacy, and explored ways of knowing attuned to a life-giving erotic energy that spans bodies and relations. In doing so, they also expanded the scope of American communism. By tracing the attention these seven women pay to “life-making” as the relations supporting survival and wellbeing—from Harlem to the American South and Midwest—In the Company of Radical Women Writers reveals their groundbreaking reconceptions of the political and provides bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice.

Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 157441593X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools written by Thomas Austenfeld and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter's only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges in her Preface to Ship of Fools, Porter's image of Europe emerges as more complex, more knowledgeable, and more politically nuanced than previous critics of her novel have acknowledged. Ship of Fools is in conversation with Europe's humanistic tradition as well as with the political moments of 1931 and 1962; i.e., the years that elapsed from the novel's conception to its completion. The novel and the 1965 film based upon it intervene into the history of film, the assessment of Weimar Germany, and Porter's clear-eyed judgment of her own times through the lens of her art.

A Companion to the American Short Story

Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119685648
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the American Short Story written by Alfred Bendixen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writers on the Left

Author : Daniel Aaron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231080392
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Writers on the Left written by Daniel Aaron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers on the Left chronicles the involvement of American writers with the progressive and radical movement from its bohemian origins in 1912 to its disillusionment and demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive and often poignant portrait of writers such as Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, who tried to wed the seemingly conflicting impulses behind the need for uninhibited artistic expression and to abolish the inequalities of class and race.

Writing from the Left

Author : Alan M. Wald
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859849064
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Writing from the Left written by Alan M. Wald and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of fiction, poetry and cultural history is given central place in Wald's analysis. From this perspective he argues that the contemporary concerns of race, gender and culture have created a powerful new leftist critique. The book argues that that the left can draw strength by reconceptualizing its cultural legacy as a rich, diverse stream of political and cultural experiences flowing over six decades. It draws deeply on this tradition, highlighting its contemporary relevance. Alan Wald is the author of "James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years", "The Revolutionary Imagination", "The New York Intellectuals" and "The Responsibility of Intellectuals".

A to Z of American Women Writers

Author : Carol Kort
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438107935
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book A to Z of American Women Writers written by Carol Kort and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biographical dictionary profiling important women authors, including birth and death dates, accomplishments and bibliography of each author's work.

Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico

Author : Thomas F. Walsh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477305246
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico written by Thomas F. Walsh and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works. Separating fact from the fictions that Porter constantly created about her life, he follows the active role that she played in Mexican political and intellectual life—even to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Mexican government, which eventually figured in Flowering Judas. Most important, Walsh discerns how the great swings between depression and elation that characterized Porter's emotional life influenced her alternating visions of Mexico. In such works as "Xochimilco," Porter saw Mexico as an earthly Eden where hopes for a better society could be realized, but in other stories, including "The Fiesta of Guadalupe," she depicts Mexico as a place of hopeless oppression for the native peoples. Mexico, Porter once said, gave her back her Texas past. Given the unhappiness of that past, her feelings toward Mexico would always be ambivalent, but her Mexican experiences influenced all her subsequent works to some degree, even those pieces not specifically Mexican in setting. Walsh's study, then, is an essential key for anyone seeking greater understanding of the life or works of Katherine Anne Porter.

The Last Good Land

Author : Eugenio Suárez-Galbán
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401200483
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Last Good Land written by Eugenio Suárez-Galbán and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books studying the presence of Spain in American literature, and the possible influence of Spain and its literature on American authors, are still rare. In 1955 appeared a pioneer work in this field – Stanley T. Williams’ The Spanish Background of American Literature. But that book went no further than W.D. Howells’ Familiar Spanish Travels, published in 1913. The Last Good Land covers most of the twentieth century, including such groups as the Lost Generation and African American writers and exiles. It also considers then recent revolution in Spanish cultural and historical thought introduced by Américo Castro, which several American writers discussed in this volume may be said to have anticipated. Recent studies have expanded on Williams’ volumes, but in the majority of cases these works limit their scope to a single period (the nineteenth century, the Spanish Civil War), a movement (predominantly Romanticism) or authors known for their interest in Spain (Irving, Hemingway). The result is often a lack of continuum, or the exclusion of such authors as Saul Bellow, William Gaddis or Richard Wright. Within American literature itself, The Last Good Land contains revisions of traditional interpretations of certain writers, including Hemingway. The variety of authors treated, both in respect to ethnicity and gender, guarantees a varied and global view of Spanish culture by American writers.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192122711
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.

Red Feminism

Author : Kate Weigand
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421404869
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Red Feminism written by Kate Weigand and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of feminist activism in the American Communist Party from the 1930s–50s and its influence on the women’s liberation movement (Publishers Weekly). Drawing on substantial new research, historian and archivist Kate Weigand disproved the conventional wisdom that the American Communist Party disregarded women’s issues. Weigand argues that, despite the devastating effects of anti-Communism and Stalinism on the progressive Left of the 1950s, Communist feminists such as Susan B. Anthony II, Betty Millard, and Eleanor Flexner managed to sustain many important elements of their work into the 1960s, when a new generation took up their cause and built an effective movement for women’s liberation. Red Feminism provides a more complex view of the history of the modern women’s movement, showing how key Communist activists came to understand gender, sexism, and race as central components of culture, economics, and politics in American society.

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253108418
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1 written by Philip A. Greasley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings. The Dictionary is based on the belief that the literature of any region simultaneously captures the experience and influences the worldview of its people, reflecting as well as shaping the evolving sense of individual and collective identity, meaning, and values. Volume One presents individual lives and literary orientations and offers a broad survey of the Midwestern experience as expressed by its many diverse peoples over time.Philip A. Greasley's introduction fills in background information and describes the philosophy, focus, methodology, content, and layout of entries, as well as criteria for their inclusion. An extended lead-essay, "The Origins and Development of the Literature of the Midwest," by David D. Anderson, provides a historical, cultural, and literary context in which the lives and writings of individual authors can be considered.This volume is the first of an ambitious three-volume series sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and created by its members. Volume Two will provide similar coverage of non-author entries, such as sites, centers, movements, influences, themes, and genres. Volume Three will be a literary history of the Midwest. One goal of the series is to build understanding of the nature, importance, and influence of Midwestern writers and literature. Another is to provide information on writers from the early years of the Midwestern experience, as well as those now emerging, who are typically absent from existing reference works.