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16 produkter
Voicing America
Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States
Häftad, 1998
303 kr
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How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of 18th-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 …
American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions
Av Cindy Weinstein, Christopher Looby
Häftad, 2012
798 kr
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Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays …
American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions
Av Cindy Weinstein, Christopher Looby
E-bok, 2012
609 kr
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In these diverse essays, leading critics recast the place of aesthetics in the production and consumption of literature. Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, contributors showcase the interpretive possibilities available to …
Cecil Dreeme
Av Theodore Winthrop, Christopher Looby
Häftad, 2016
380 kr
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"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between men-and heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."-Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionFreshly returned to New …
"the Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories
Häftad, 2017
445 kr
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"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the queerest."-Christopher Looby, from the …
"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings
Av Margaret J. M. Sweat, Christopher Looby
Häftad, 2020
364 kr
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In a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her …
Cecil Dreeme
Av Theodore Winthrop, Christopher Looby
E-bok, 2016
477 kr
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"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between men-and heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."-Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionFreshly returned to New …
"the Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories
E-bok, 2016
562 kr
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"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the queerest."-Christopher Looby, from the …
"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings
Av Margaret J. M. Sweat, Christopher Looby
E-bok, 2020
431 kr
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In a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her …
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
Av Sam See, Christopher Looby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1628 kr
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Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be …
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
Av Sam See, Christopher Looby m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
441 kr
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Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be …
For the Pleasure of His Company
An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Av Charles Warren Stoddard, Christopher Looby
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular works were dispatches primarily from the South Sea Islands but also extended into Palestine, Egypt, and …
For the Pleasure of His Company
An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Av Charles Warren Stoddard, Christopher Looby
E-bok, 2023
550 kr
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Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular works were dispatches primarily from the South Sea Islands but also extended into Palestine, Egypt, and …
Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Av Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Christopher Looby
Inbunden, 1999
454 kr
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a politically engaged intellectual at the forefront of antislavery, labour and feminist causes. Born in 1823 to a formerly wealthy but still prominent Brahmin family, he became one of America's foremost social activists and a leading writer, minister and reformer. …
American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions
Av Cindy Weinstein, Christopher Looby
Inbunden, 2012
1129 kr
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Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays …
