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The Resurgence Of Traditional Poetic Form And The Current Status Of Poetrys Place In American Culture
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Book Synopsis The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry's Place in American Culture by : Kevin Walzer
Download or read book The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry's Place in American Culture written by Kevin Walzer and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on a movement called constructive postmodernism which, in the work of such theorists as Frank Turner, has helped to chart new directions for literary theory past the fragmentary impasses of deconstruction, identity, politics, and cultural studies. It develops alternative readings of such poets as: Wallace Stevens; Edna St Vincent Millay; e.e. Cummings; James Wright; Hayden Carruth; Rita Dove; John Haines; Judson Jerome; and Sam Hamill. This book also raises questions about the status of poetry in contemporary American culture, particularly its relationship with the university.
Book Synopsis Essay and General Literature Index by : Minnie Earl Sears
Download or read book Essay and General Literature Index written by Minnie Earl Sears and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately).
Download or read book Darwin's Bards written by John Holmes and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the arts. Includes over 50 complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings. Poets examined include Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Frost, Ted Hughes, Pattia
Book Synopsis Choice Books for College Libraries by :
Download or read book Choice Books for College Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free to academic librarians. This book is not for sale.
Book Synopsis Critical Essays on the Works of American Author Dorothy Allison by : Christine Blouch
Download or read book Critical Essays on the Works of American Author Dorothy Allison written by Christine Blouch and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays examining the works of Dorothy Allison (1950-), one of the most original and influential contemporary American women writers working today. Allison is perhaps best-known as author of the acclaimed best- selling novels Bastard Out of Carolina, a National Book Award Finalist in 1992, and Caved weller (1998). Her numerous other works have included short story and essay collections, poetry, and an autobiography. The critical essays in this collection consider Allison's short stories and essays, as well as her novels, discussing themes such as trauma and violence, the body, literary and critical connections, and class, among others. As the first major collection of essays to focus solely on Allison's works, this study provides ground-breaking work on an important and interesting contemporary writer. Allison's works attract readers from a range of academic disciplines, and they have found a broad national public readership as well. diverse, comprising readers interested in a range of gender issues, autobiographical writing, trauma narratives, Southern writing, and lesbian and gay writing and issues.
Book Synopsis The Life and Work of Writer Annie Trumbull Slosson by : Edward Ifkovic
Download or read book The Life and Work of Writer Annie Trumbull Slosson written by Edward Ifkovic and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Trumbull Slosson (1832-1926) was an important short story writer who epitomized the American local color movement that flourished after the Civil War and ended at the beginning of the twentieth century. Along with writers like Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, she helped establish the popular and critical model of the short story in which location and idiosyncratic characterization identified a particular region of the United States. In New England women dominated the genre, for the isolated farms and desolate villages were often places where women and old men lived - the young men had died in the war or had gone west in search of gold. Slosson's first work, The China Hunter's Club (1878), helped establish the viability of local dialect, building on the tradition established by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Sedgwick. But in her two most important volumes, Seven Dreamers (1890) and Dumb Foxglove and Other Stories (1898) she reached full maturity, with stories that developed the mystical/psychological ramifications of her characters, mostly older women who abandoned the old-style Congregational/Calvinist puritanism of their forebears and
Book Synopsis Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 by : John Chandler Griffin
Download or read book Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 written by John Chandler Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive biography on Jean Toomer who was known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance. The author delves into the esoteric nature of many of Toomer's life experiences.
Book Synopsis Edward J. O'Brien and His Role in the Rise of the American Short Story in the 1920s and 1930s by : Roy S. Simmonds
Download or read book Edward J. O'Brien and His Role in the Rise of the American Short Story in the 1920s and 1930s written by Roy S. Simmonds and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography provides a balanced assessment of the true achievement of this complex and work-driven personality, who played an essential role as a discerning editor at a time when the short story scene in America was undergoing a radical evolution. In April 1916, Edward J. O'Brien published The Best Short Stories of 1915, which proved to be the first of the series of annual anthologies of the short stories he considered the cream of those appearing in US magazines during the preceding 12 months. It continued under his guidance until the 1941 volume published posthumously in his name. In the eyes of many young writers -Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and William Saroyan, for example - he became regarded as a respected authority, providing them with encouragement and inspiration by reprinting their stories in his anthologies. He loyally supported the so-called little magazines and was instrumental in drawing the attention of both readers and writers to their existence. In Oxford, he co-edited the short-lived New Stories as an anticipated British equivalent of Story.
Book Synopsis A Hobo Life in the Great Depression by : Edward C. Weideman
Download or read book A Hobo Life in the Great Depression written by Edward C. Weideman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weideman's writing provides a classic expression of the American experience sometimes labeled as "modernism", which encompasses the early 20th-century search for the meaning of life in an era of social and economic breakdown characterized by a sense of loss of a stable, secure world based on a belief in and reliance on absolute truth.
Book Synopsis The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 by : Jean Toomer
Download or read book The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 written by Jean Toomer and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the 1923 publication of his Cane, a collage of poems, short stories, and sketches that depict the life of black Americans in both the rural South and the urban North, Toomer became a follower of spiritual leader Georges Gurdjieff. His published writing centered on those teachings for the next 20 years, until he became a Quaker in 1940, and published articles in that vein until 1950. Here are 45 poems and stories that have not appeared in previous collections, arranged in chronological sections from 1922 to 1950. Griffin (U. of South Carolina) provides a brief biographical sketch, but neither index nor bibliography. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Book Synopsis A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 by : Ronna Coffey Privett
Download or read book A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 written by Ronna Coffey Privett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the novels, essays, and short stories of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps within their cultural/historical context. It examines the social climate and reform movements during Phelps' writing career, and shows how she was a woman ahead of her time in the 19th century.
Book Synopsis Understanding Lewis Mumford by : Kenneth R. Stunkel
Download or read book Understanding Lewis Mumford written by Kenneth R. Stunkel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a readable exposition of Lewis Mumford's views on dozens of issues with continuous, selective reference to his published works. Elucidates Mumford's thoughts about history and its meaning, human nature and its development, science and technology, cities, art, architecture, and more. Preface; Lewis Mumford was a writer who ranged freely across the landscapes of history, literature, architecture, technology, civilization, environmentalism, public life, and the human mind. Malcolm Cowley called him the last of the great humanists. He considered himself a generalist, and deliberately took on the big picture in many of his works, which is anathema to many today. Though his organic vision appears throughout his work, it may not always be apparent how the thread connects between his works. in the culture of the machine? Or that art can be a surer touchstone of reality than science? Or that cities should be conceived as bio-regions? Or that we have been busily building a suicidal power complex as deadly to life, and especially human life, as it is vulnerable to sudden collapse like a house of cards? Consider Mumford's 1970 criticism of the World Trade Center, made as it was still being built: ...a characteristic example of the purposeless giantism and technological exhibitionism that are eviscerating the living tissue of every great city...But Dinosaurs were handicapped by insufficient brains and the World Trade Center is only another Dinosaur. Thirty years later the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 attack was showed how vulnerable the power complex can be, and how deadly that building handicapped by insufficient brains proved itself to be for thousands of people it entombed.
Book Synopsis Social Reform, Taste, and the Construction of Virtue in American Literature, 1870-1910 by : Janice H. Koistinen-Harris
Download or read book Social Reform, Taste, and the Construction of Virtue in American Literature, 1870-1910 written by Janice H. Koistinen-Harris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Koistinen-Harris's study of the relationship between literature, taste/aesthetics, and social reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century groups together subjects which scholars have not commonly linked with one another. Particularly, she has adopted an innovative way of thinking about reform writing, focusing not on what is being said about needy groups but instead on what the writing says to the potential reformers to whom it is addressed. Preface; Janice Koistinen-Harris's study of the relationship between literature, taste/aesthetics, and social reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century groups together subjects which scholars have not commonly linked with one another. In particular, Koistinen-Harris has adopted an innovative way of thinking about reform writing, focusing not on what is being said about needy groups but instead on what the writing says to the potential reformers to whom it is addressed. She thus establishes an important tie between thought and social action during an era which dramatically altered the course of American history. This book, then, fills an important gap at the junction between literary and historical scholarship. The li
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter by : Kimberly Free Muirhead
Download or read book Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter written by Kimberly Free Muirhead and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guides scholars through the vast amount of literary criticism devoted to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" between 1950 and 2000. Following introductory information on the work's initial reception are some 800 cross-referenced bibliographical entries--arranged first by decade, and then alphabetically by author. Muirhead's annotations illuminate the principal arguments and describe the theoretical models used by the authors. The volume is indexed by author, subject, and critical approach. Muirhead (Duquesne U.) has published three prior bibliographic studies on Hawthorne in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review.
