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Author : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Third Life of Per Smevik written by Ole Edvart Rølvaag and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Øyvind Tveitereid Gulliksen
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820462301
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Twofold Identities written by Øyvind Tveitereid Gulliksen and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twofold Identities is a study of Midwestern American literature as well as of Norwegian-American immigrant texts. Many readers have judged the latter to be a mere reflection of immigrant experience, a judgment that is neither fair nor correct. These American writers were forced to confront an essentially modern experience complicated by the contextual duality of bilingualism. For early Midwestern immigrant writers and their readers, the task of homemaking in a new setting was a philosophically challenging and highly problematic endeavor. These Midwestern writers were not lost, divided, nor rootless. They had the unique privileged ability to draw on the resources of two worlds. As writers they enjoyed - and helped to strengthen - twofold identities.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487891
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Literature and Lore of the Sea written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orm Øverland
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252023279
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Western Home written by Orm Øverland and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America is a history of American literature. It is different from other histories of American literature in that the language of the writers and their readers was not English. There have been studies of American authors who have used languages such as French, German, Spanish, or Swedish, but this is the first comprehensive history of any literature written and read in the United States in another language than English. Indeed, most histories of American literature are based on the theory that English is the only American literary language. Such a theory, however, dismisses the fact that English has in periods been a minority language in many areas. In this book American literature is the literature of people who are American by choice or by birth regardless of the language they may have used. This book demonstrates that Norwegian has indeed been an American literary language and that many of the American writers in this language deserve our attention.
Author : Bill Holm
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452942765
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Music of Failure written by Bill Holm and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written.” So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection introduced to many the singular vision and voice of literary giant Bill Holm, a writer who had traveled well and widely but came back to his hometown of Minneota—the town of his immigrant Icelandic ancestors—as, in his words, “for all practical purposes a failure.” What emerges from these pages, and from Holm’s cherished writings over the next two and a half decades, is anything but failure. From his ruminations on life in Minneota, family history, and the “horizontal grandeur” of the Midwestern prairie to a poetry-reading tour of Minnesota nursing homes and an account of a naked man eating lilacs out of his garden, The Music of Failure is a lyrical and surprising compilation that finds Holm mining the stories and places that captivated him and continue to enthrall his many readers. This 25th anniversary edition includes poignant portraits of Holm and the history of The Music of Failure by Jim Heynen and David Pichaske, along with an essay Holm requested be added to this new edition, “Is Minnesota in America Yet?” With beautiful black-and-white photographs by Tom Guttormsson, The Music of Failure is Bill Holm at both his early and quintessential best, an inimitable and much-missed writer who illuminates our private and common lives through both our quiet victories and our sublime failures.
Author : James Thorson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135057788
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Aging in a Changing Society written by James Thorson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of gerontology, the study of aging, has emerged as an area of increasing importance. This book is an introduction to the multidisciplinary field of gerontology. The text, with its friendly narrative style, assumes no prior knowledge of gerontology, sociology, or psychology.
Author : Ronald Weber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253363664
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing written by Ronald Weber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a half-century - from Edward Eggleston's pioneering novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster in 1871 through the dazzling early work of Hart Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s - Midwestern literature was at the center of American writing. In The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing, Ronald Weber illuminates the sense of lost promise that gives rise to the elegiac note struck in many Midwestern works; he also addresses the deeply divided feelings about the region revealed in the contrary desires to abandon and to celebrate. The period of Midwestern cultural ascendancy was a time of tremendous social and technological change. Midwestern writing was a reflection of these societal changes; it was American literature.
Author : Steven R. Serafin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826417770
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Steven R. Serafin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten years in the making, this comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the student, scholar, and general reader. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature represents a collaborative effort, involving 300 contributors from across the US and Canada. Composed of more than 1,100 signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature. A special feature is the topical article, of which there are 70.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1786 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book South Dakota History written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195385349
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The American Novel 1870-1940 written by Priscilla Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199909032
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by Priscilla Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history. Here, 35 essays by top researchers in the field detail how considerations of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate throughout novels written in the United States between 1870 and 1940. Contributors discuss the professionalization of literary production after the Civil War alongside legal and political debates over segregation and citizenship; while chapters on journalism, geography, religion, and immigration offer discussions on everything from the lasting role of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's effect on developing theories of aesthetics and popular culture. The volume offers thorough coverage of the emergence of serial fiction, children's fiction, crime and detective fiction, science fiction, and even cinema and comics, as new media and artistic revolutions like the Harlem Renaissance helped usher in the new international aesthetic movement of Modernism. The final chapters in the volume explore the relationship of the novel to the emergence of "American literature" as a category in the academy, in public criticism and journalism, and in mass culture.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1662 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Vinz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816636877
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Imagining Home written by Mark Vinz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000-01-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen nationally acclaimed authors reflect on how their Midwestern heritage has affected their attitudes, values, and development as writers. Includes brief biographies and bandw photos of contributors. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gale Research Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century Literary Criticism written by Gale Research Company and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443803162
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Nordic Storyteller written by Susan Brantly and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen consists of a set of nineteen research essays plus an introduction, written by colleagues and admirers of Niels and Faith Ingwersen, leaders in the field of Scandinavian Studies in North America for some four decades. A first section of seven essays, entitled “Songs and Tales in Oral Tradition,” presents research in the area of folklore studies, including balladry, saints’ lives, incantations, healing, legendry, and personal experience narrative. Articles take up such issues as classification, thematics, cultural and historical change, and the effects of technology on daily life. A closely related second section, “From Oral Tradition to Literature” includes three essays which examine the adaptation of oral tradition to literary forms, focusing on the works of P. Chr. Asbjørnsen, Esias Tegnér, Elias Lönnrot, F. R. Kreutzwald, and the illustrations of Arthur Rackham—all figures important in the rise of folklore as a key interest of Romantic nationalism. A further set of nine essays grouped under the title “Tales in Literary Form” examine aspects of the writings of some of the greatest storytellers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including H. C. Andersen, Herman Bang, Henrik Ibsen, Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason, Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, Isak Dinesen, Martin Andersen Nexø, Billy August, Hans Scherfig, Peter Høeg, Klaus Rifbjerg, Leif Panduro, and Kjartan Fløgstad. Articles address topics including autobiography, source criticism, symbolism, personal and national identities, and the representation of political ideals. Together the essays of this volume demonstrate the unflagging salience of narrative—of storytelling—in the personal lives and social experiences of Scandinavians and their neighbors, past and present.
Author : Solveig Zempel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452903107
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book In Their Own Words written by Solveig Zempel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
