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Author : Washington Irving
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. ; Salmagundi written by Washington Irving and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 9780940450141
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16) written by Washington Irving and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1983-11-15 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving’s career as a writer began obscurely at age seventeen, when his brother’s newspaper published his series of comic reports on the theater, theater-goers, fashions, balls, courtships, duels, and marriages of his contemporary New York, called Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. Written in the persona of an elderly gentleman of the old school, these letters captured his fellow townsmen at play in their most incongruous attitudes of simple sophistication. Irving’s next work, Salmagundi, written in collaboration with his brother William and James Kirke Paulding, and published at irregular intervals in 1805–06, continued this roguish style of satire and burlesque. A History of New York, publicized by an elaborate hoax in the local newspapers concerning the disappearance of the elderly “Diedrich Knickerbocker,” turned out to be a wild and hilarious spoof that combined real New York history with political satire. Quickly reprinted in England, it was admired by Walter Scott and Charles Dickens (who carried his copy in his pocket). In later years, as Irving revised and re-revised his History, he softened his gibes at Thomas Jefferson, the Dutch, and the Yankees of New England; this Library of America volume presents the work in its original, exuberant, robust, and unexpurgated form, giving modern readers a chance to enjoy the version that brought him immediate international acclaim. The Sketch Book contains Irving’s two best-loved stories, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It also includes many sketches of English country and city life, as well as nostalgic portraits of vanishing traditions, like the old celebrations of Christmas. A writer of great urbanity and poise, acutely sensitive to the nostalgia of a passing age, Washington Irving was a central figure in America’s emergence on the international scene. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author : Leary
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452911975
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Washington Irving-Aw written by Leary and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving - American Writers 25 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410337243
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Matthew Garrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199346542
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Episodic Poetics written by Matthew Garrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early United States was a culture of the episode. In Episodic Poetics, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot. Since Aristotle's Poetics, the episode has been a vexed category of literary analysis, troubling any easy view of the subsumption of unwieldy narrative parts into well-plotted wholes. Garrett puts forward a new, dialectical theory of episodic form to recast this peculiar object of literary history, looking to the episode as a narrative unit smaller than the genre in order to give an account of all the period's major prose genres. Garrett shows how, in ways both magisterial and mundane, episodic forms gave variegated shape to the social, political, and economic conflicts that defined the moment of national formation. Episodic Poetics proposes a new method of reading and a new way of conceiving of literary history. The book asks how we might understand the cultural role of the episode as a literary micro-unit, one that forces us to read individual narratives in terms of an always partial and fraught development toward plot. Episodic Poetics combines theoretical reflection and historical rigor with careful readings of texts from the early American canon such as The Federalist, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, and the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, along with hitherto understudied texts and ephemera such as Washington Irving's Salmagundi, Susanna Rowson's Trials of the Human Heart and the memoirs of the metalworker and failed entrepreneur John Fitch. Garrett recounts literary history not as the easy victory of grand nationalist ambitions, but rather as a series of social struggles expressed through writers' recurring engagement with incompletely integrated forms.
Author : Alexander Onysko
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823391402
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Polyphony of English Studies written by Alexander Onysko and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, in honor of Allan James, collects a range of articles from different domains of English studies as a token of Allan James's academic interests and his integrative approach to the field. The contributions in linguistics encompass a spectrum of topics including world Englishes, professional discourse, language acquisition, collocation, translation, and multilingualism. Cultural aspects in language teaching and in literary analysis enrich the reading and hint at Allan James' Welsh and Celtic roots while also going beyond that.
Author : Catherine Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074868462X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 written by Catherine Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.
Author : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825410
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York written by Cyrus R. K. Patell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers.
Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429978066
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Doing Nothing written by Tom Lutz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work—and getting out of it Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Reviled by many, heroes to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn while the rest of society worries and sweats. Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: "To do nothing," as Oscar Wilde said, "is the most difficult thing in the world." From Benjamin Franklin's "air baths" to Jack Kerouac's "dharma bums," Generation-X slackers, and beyond, anti-work-ethic proponents have held a central place in modern culture. Moving with verve and wit through a series of fascinating case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, Doing Nothing revises the way we understand slackers and work itself.
Author : Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic, pt. 4, 1861-1888 (continued) Additional selections, 1834-1889. Short biographies of all authors represented in this work, by Arthur Stedman. General index written by Edmund Clarence Stedman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James David HAIG
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Edinburgh Subscription Library 1794-1846. With Charter of Erection, Laws of the Society, List of Members, etc written by James David HAIG and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who was who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reference Guide to American Literature written by D. L. Kirkpatrick and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author : Robert Ernest Spiller
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Literary History of the United States: History written by Robert Ernest Spiller and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [1] History.--[2] Bibliography.
Author : Robert Ernest Spiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Literary History of the United States written by Robert Ernest Spiller and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
