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True West: Authenticity and the American West
ISBN: 9780803259768 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the ongoing economic and social transformations in this vast region, the persistent nostalgia and desire for the "real" authentic West suggest regional and national identities at odds with themselves. True West explores the concept of authenticity as it is used to invent, test, advertise, and read the...
In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasi...
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Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey Into the American Grasslands
ISBN: 9780803260269 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though he d lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded John Price until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenlybrought his surroundings home to him. Not Just Any Land is a memoir of Price s rediscovery of his place in the American landscape and of his search for a new relationship to the life of the prairie that once immense and beautiful wilderness of grass now so depleted and damaged as to test even the deepest faith.
Price s journey toward a conscious commitment to place takes him to some of America s largest... Though he d lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded John Price until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of ...
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Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space
ISBN: 9780803260443 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and includes new regional studies, global studies, studies of popular culture, environmental criticism, gender and queer theory, and multiculturalism. Postwestern Cultures, like all successful studies of western American literature, is necessarily diverse and wide-ranging; it grasps the multifaceted quality of the landscape,...
Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdi...
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Dark Thoreau
ISBN: 9780803261921 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
ISBN: 9780803263321 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cather on Writing, a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. In the course of it Cather writes, with grace and piercing clarity, about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all-no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all...
"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that, one might say, is created." This famous observation appears in Willa Cath...
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Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak
ISBN: 9780803263512 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor; and James Welch. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender; and the relations between Indian writers and non-Indian readers and critics, and between writers and anthropologists and histo-rians. In exploring a wide range of topics, each writer arrives at his or her own...
In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Er...
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Cather Studies, Volume 4: Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections
ISBN: 9780803263987 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cather Studies 4 contains eighteen essays and elaborates a theme, "Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections." Such connections are central to Cather's art and artistry. She transported much from the Old World to the New, shaping her antecedents to tell, in new ways, the stories of Nebraska, of the American Southwest, and especially of Quebec, in Shadows on the Rock. David Stouck details Cather's numerous Canadian connections, Richard Millington treats her "anthropological" re-creation of the cultural moment of seventeenth-century Quebec, and Francois Palleau-Papin finds "The Hidden...
Cather Studies 4 contains eighteen essays and elaborates a theme, "Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections." Such connections are central to...
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Cather Studies, Volume 3
ISBN: 9780803264151 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 3 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather s work for the informed reader or the specialized student. In fourteen essays, critics and scholars examine Cather s Catholic Progressivism, her literary relations with William Faulkner, and her place in the multicultural canon of American literature."
Volume 3 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather s work for the informed ...
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A Sender of Words: Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt
ISBN: 9780803266476 / Angielski / Miękka / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and Native studies, John G. Neihardt (1881 1973) was born in Illinois, taught for many years at the University of Missouri, and was named by act of legislature Poet Laureate of Nebraska and the Prairies. Neihardt was devoted to his ideals of art, spirit, humanity, and understanding. This volume brings together fourteen lifelong admirers, who each contribute a portrait or an appreciation of this American original.Best known for his 1932 classic Black Elk Speaks, done in collaboration...
Author of more than thirty books of poetry, Western history, stories, fiction, biography, criticism, and Native studies, John G. Neihardt (1881 1973) ...
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Music in Willa Cather's Fiction
ISBN: 9780803270992 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A professor of English at Fordham University, Richard Giannone is the author of Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist and other works. Philip Kennicott is a music critic for the Washington Post.
A professor of English at Fordham University, Richard Giannone is the author of Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist and other works. Philip Kennicott i...
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Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination
ISBN: 9780803278004 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta Ettinger, Hana Demetz, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Norma Rosen, and Marge Piercy. Through close, insightful reading of fiction, S. Lillian Kremer explores Holocaust representations in works distinguished by the power of their literary expression and attention to women's diverse experiences.
Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as giv...
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Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
ISBN: 9780803289741 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a who s who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through the 1970s. They include Edmund Wilson, Robert Penn Warren, F. R. Leavis, Leslie Fiedler, R. W. B. Lewis, R. P. Blackmur, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Raymond Williams, Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, William Barrett, Bruno Bettelheim, Gerald Graff, and Cornel West."
Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of ...
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Cather Studies: History, Memory, and War
ISBN: 9780803294646 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cather Studies 6 is part of a growing body of scholarship that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of her day. This chronologically arranged collection demonstrates that Cather found the subject of war both unavoidable, because of her position in history, and artistically irresistible. The volume begins with an essay addressing the American Civil War as part of Cather's southern cultural inheritance and concludes with an account of the aging writer's participation in the Armed Services Editions Program of World War II....
Cather Studies 6 is part of a growing body of scholarship that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof fro...
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Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book
ISBN: 9780804715492 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms.
Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms.
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Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, & Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9780804725415 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of Edgar Allan Poe and his place in the literary canon continues to provoke debate. Many critics have been puzzled as to how Poe can stand simultaneously as the germinal figure of a central modernist trajectory (leading via Baudelaire to French Symbolism and thence to the high modernism of Eliot and others) and as the acknowledged pioneer of several durable mass-cultural genres, including detective and science fiction and certain modes of sensational or Gothic horror. Arguing that Poe is not exceptional but exemplary in this ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers...
The work of Edgar Allan Poe and his place in the literary canon continues to provoke debate. Many critics have been puzzled as to how Poe can stand si...
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Rereading Jack London
ISBN: 9780804726344 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America s most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American literary history.
The breadth and depth of new critical study of London s work in recent decades attest to his newfound respectability. London criticism has moved beyond a traditional concerns of realism and naturalism as well as beyond the timeworn... Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America s most widely translated author (into m...
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Emerson and the Climates of History
ISBN: 9780804728140 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather. Focusing on Emerson's persistent use of climatic and meteorological metaphors, the book demonstrates that Emerson's reflections on the weather are inseparable from his preoccupation with the central historical and political issues of his day. The author suggests that Emerson's writings may be read as both symptomatic and critical of the governing rhetorics through which Americans...
This book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulate...
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Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America
ISBN: 9780804728584 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increased demand for salable entertainment, for pleasing an expanded and unknown audience in its moments of leisure, fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America. This book argues that a range of canonical and more recently enfranchised antebellum authors--from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Fanny Fern--rhetorically reconstructed their newly professionalized work by mediating it through other forms of labor. The project of understanding authorship and...
The increased demand for salable entertainment, for pleasing an expanded and unknown audience in its moments of leisure, fostered a new consciousness ...
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The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780804729413 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism.
In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its col...
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Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson
ISBN: 9780804730150 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining both why and how Emerson evades the ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy, this book entirely rethinks the nature of Emerson's radical individualism and its relation to the possibility of an ethics and a politics. The author argues that the quarrel between literature and philosophy never took place in America, and that instead traditional philosophical work staged itself here as a form of literary praxis and cultural therapeutics. Epitomized in the work of Emerson, this praxis takes shape explicitly in Emerson's understanding of democracy and occurs as an exchange within...
Examining both why and how Emerson evades the ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy, this book entirely rethinks the nature of Emerson's r...
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