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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-01
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that academic research in the short story should be dated to Mary Rohrberger’s study Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-24
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Under the influence of Thomas Pynchon, a generation of postmodern American writers has explored the theme of conspiracy and paranoia, its origins in contemporary American culture, and its political and ideological ramifications. This intense preoccupation with paranoid...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-23
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Inspired by Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world, this study presents a quasi-phenomenological close reading of Herman Melville’s most famous novella Bartleby the Scrivener and Mark Twain’s most famous novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is meant as a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-17
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The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and the second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferation of works by Chicanas addressing this issue. Those recent works differ significantly from the earliest representations of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-18
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Masculinity is one of the key issues at stake in contemporary writing and gender studies. In their novels, Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe both consistently make masculinity a prominent thematic and ideological concern. This study is the first full length scholarly work to...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-18
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This volume is a posthumous revised edition of selected papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz on classic works of American and Irish fiction, published originally between 1979 and 2005. The book opens with two introductory sketches: a semi-theoretical one on intertextuality and a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-12
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This volume seeks to determine how contemporary American playwrights and theatre practitioners translate the current debate on cultural pluralism in the United States. While offering re-visions of the Melting Pot, they often challenge its idealistic assumptions, thus...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-08-29
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Since the 1920s the use of romantic features in the tough masculinist narratives of American hard-boiled fiction has often surprised its readers. Through an exploration of fiction written by four major hard-boiled writers (Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, James M....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-29
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As Wallace Stevens once wrote, «a poem should be part of one’s sense of life». This book provides a record of readerly and critical explorations of the poems and life of the American poet. The author reads Stevens’s poems in the context of both the existing critical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-07
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Theoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as the expression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices of power. In Changing Subjects, Srikanth Reddy seeks to redress our critical bias toward a fatalistic poetics...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-13
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Theater has always been the site of visionary hopes for a reformed national future and a space for propagating ideas, both cultural and political, and such a conceptualization of the histrionic art is all the more valuable in the post-9/11 era. The essays in this volume...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-06-01
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In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias, panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk.In this groundbreaking study, Andrew...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-19
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Claude McKay’s Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections examines McKay’s search for an original form of literary expression that started in Jamaica and continued in his subsequent travels abroad. Newly found research pertaining to his...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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Reading poetry reveals a great deal about the mind, the values, and the character of an individual. Poetry and the American Presidency presents the first study to focus on the importance of poetry in the lives of 18 American presidents from George Washington to Barack...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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This book examines the relevance of the concepts of space and place to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The core of the book is a series of readings of key Borges texts viewed from the perspective of human spatiality. Issues that arise include the dichotomy between ‘lived...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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Studying Brian Moore’s Black Robe (1985), this book examines the dual adaptation process of historical sources into fiction and fiction into film. The fictionalisation process is analysed on the basis of the Jesuit Relations of the 17th century and Moore’s novel....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-22
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By mapping the contour of Thornton Wilder’s major plays and novels, this book offers a fresh reading of his deceptively unfashionable art of allegorical narrative, and aims to reaffirm Malcolm Cowley’s perspicacious judgment: «(Wilder is) one of the toughest and most...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-16
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Eine kluge, politische Satire voll bitterer Wahrheiten und fast schon prophetischer Voraussicht in die gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklung unserer Zeit, geschrieben von James Fenimore Cooper, dem Autor der Lederstrumpf-Romane. Die immer noch Gültigkeit besitzende...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-13
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Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self expands the field of autobiography studies by describing an emergent genre, natural biography, that embeds the human subject in a more-than-human world. Through an ecocritical analysis of three contemporary U.S. authors –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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