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A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
ISBN: 9780226076294 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1906, the "Atlantic Monthly" commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves.
Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at... In May 1906, the "Atlantic Monthly" commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relen...
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Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal
ISBN: 9780226092287 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At his death, Henry Thoreau left the majority of his writing unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal that he kept for twenty-four years. Sharon Cameron's major claim is that this private work (the Journal) was Thoreau's primary work, taking precedence over the books that he published in his lifetime. Her controversial thesis views Thoreau's Journal as a composition that confounds the distinction between public and private the basis on which our conventional treatment of discourse depends."
At his death, Henry Thoreau left the majority of his writing unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal that he kept for twenty-four years. S...
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Thinking in Henry James
ISBN: 9780226092317 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the person who thinks. Examining these and other counterintuitive representations of consciousness, Cameron asks, "How do we make sense of these conceptions of thinking?""
Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness first, the idea that it may not...
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Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst
ISBN: 9780226096544 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century classic Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom...
In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that range...
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The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780226098135 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.
Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book i...
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Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics
ISBN: 9780226137391 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work considers how writers of the 1950s and 1960s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort.
This work considers how writers of the 1950s and 1960s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hyster...
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Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920
ISBN: 9780226222646 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term "culture" in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910 more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it the object of anthropological attention. "Before Cultures" explores this delay in the development of the culture concept and its relation to the description of difference in late nineteenth-century America.
In this work, Brad Evans weaves together the histories of American literature and anthropology. His study brings alive not only the regionalist and... The term "culture" in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910 more than a century after Herder began ...
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Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America
ISBN: 9780226293875 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging themselves." Mark Twain enjoyed trading on that horror, as the many confidence men, assumed identities, and disguised characters in his fiction attest. In Dark Twins, Susan Gillman challenges the widely held assumption that Twain's concern with identity is purely biographical and argues that what has been regarded as a problem of individual psychology must be located instead within American society around the turn of the century. Drawing on Twain's...
"Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging the...
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Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult
ISBN: 9780226293899 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre the race melodrama and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena.
"Blood Talk" shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and surprisingly manifested itself in... The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the ...
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Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult
ISBN: 9780226293905 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre the race melodrama and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena.
"Blood Talk" shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and surprisingly manifested itself in... The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the ...
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American Romanticism and the Marketplace
ISBN: 9780226293967 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's "Virgin Land" and Leo Marx's "The Machine in the Garden."" Choice
" Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, "engagement "with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly belongs, at the centre of a broad social, economic, and ideological movement from the Jacksonian era to the Civil War. Basically, Gilmore's argument concerns the writers' participation in what Thoreau called 'the curse of trade.' He details their... "This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's "Virgin Land" and Leo Marx's "The Machine in the Garden."" Choice
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Faulkner, Mississippi
ISBN: 9780226299945 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1989, the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi. His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood American writers.
"A fascinating way to read Faulkner. . . . Glissant's] case is nothing less than that, no matter how Faulkner's personal Furies twisted his public speech, Faulkner was a great, world-beating multiculturalist."-Jonathan Levi, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "A sharp, challenging, and wholly unique tour of Yoknapatawpha County." -"Kirkus... In 1989, the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi. His visit spurred him to write a rev...
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
ISBN: 9780226468938 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. It is the women who steal the show with their their groundbreaking work, their harrowing experiences of marriage, abuse, and betrayal, their passion for writing and disdain for feminism, their struggles and achievements.
Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the <...
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The American Adam
ISBN: 9780226476810 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"--dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crevecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the...
Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"--dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the l...
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Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States
ISBN: 9780226492834 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and connects them to nation-building, political discourse, and self-creation. Correcting the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture in eighteenth-century America, "Voicing...
How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues tha...
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It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics
ISBN: 9780226673769 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit-ins spread to thirty cities in seven states. Student participants told stories of impulsive, spontaneous action this despite all the planning that had gone into the sit-ins. It was like a fever, they said.
Francesca Polletta s It Was Like a Fever sets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social... Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down ...
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Cultural Locations of Disability
ISBN: 9780226767321 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Cultural Locations of Disability, " Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed...
In "Cultural Locations of Disability, " Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. Th...
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Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels
ISBN: 9780226768458 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Desire and Truth" offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.
"Desire and Truth" offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional ...
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The Mourner's Song: War and Remebrance from the Iliad to Vietnam
ISBN: 9780226789941 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war. The touchstone throughout is 'The Iliad', not just as one of the earliest war poems, but also as a powerful example of the way poetry acts as both tribute and consolation for loss.
Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war. The touchstone throughout is 'The Iliad', not jus...
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Crossing Ocean Parkway
ISBN: 9780226808307 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from the middle-class Jewish neighborhood into which she married. This book is Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in...
Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. H...
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