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American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engagedAmerican writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning Covers a range of genres including...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-12-03
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THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging overview of twentieth-century American ?ction. Featured writers range from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-12-03
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Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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The religious precepts of the Puritans continued to affect intellectual life in the U.S. long after the immigrants arrived at Massachusetts Bay, circulating through New England culture well into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using three emblematic...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-12-03
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Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy – Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man’s River (1997), and Bone By Bone (1999) – which draws together themes Matthiessen has been exploring both in his fiction and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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Grounded in theoretical studies of postmodern and narrative ethics, this book proposes the need for a re-examination of E. L. Doctorow’s work from an ethical perspective. Through in-depth analyses of previously neglected intertexts, it questions the classification of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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American Literature in Context after 1929American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shapedAmerican literature from the Great Depression onward....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-06-10
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This book places major literary works within the context of the topics that engaged a great number of American writers in the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual re-enslavement of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-06-10
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Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner stand as the American voice of the Great War. But was it warfare that drove them to write? Not according to Keith Gandal, who argues that the authors' famous postwar novels were motivated not by their...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-05-06
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Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays onAbsalom, essays...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-04-10
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A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries. Written by leading critics in the field, and edited by two major scholars, it explores a wide range of writers, from Edgar Allen Poe and Edith...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-02-12
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-02-12
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-01-21
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-01-21
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The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-11-23
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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-26
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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-09-24
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'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.'
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000....
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OUP Oxford
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2009-06-25
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