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19 produkter
Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South
E-bok, 2016
1961 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more …
Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South
E-bok, 2016
1961 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more …
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
A Casebook
Av Fred Hobson
E-bok, 2010
450 kr
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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 on Absalom , essays written over a thirty-year span …
The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South
Inbunden, 2016
2772 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more …
Mencken
A Life
Av Fred Hobson
E-bok, 2012
260 kr
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Ever in control, H. L. Mencken contrived that future generations would see his life as he desired them to. He even wrote Happy Days, Newspaper Days , and other books to fit the pictures he wanted: first, the carefree Baltimore boy; then, the delighted, exuberant critic of American life. But he only …
Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work
A Memoir by H. L. Mencken
Av H. L. Mencken, Fred Hobson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
404 kr
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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged …
Faulkner and the Politics of Reading
Av Karl F. Zender, Fred Hobson
Inbunden, 2002
524 kr
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With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicised interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender's searching …
Race, Theft, and Ethics
Property Matters in African American Literature
Av Lovalerie King, Fred Hobson
Inbunden, 2007
529 kr
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In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in …
Peculiar Crossroads
Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction
Av Farrell O'Gorman, Fred Hobson
Häftad, 2008
415 kr
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In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic …
Faulkner and the Politics of Reading
Av Karl F. Zender, Fred Hobson m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
381 kr
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With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender's searching …
Race, Theft, and Ethics
Property Matters in African American Literature
Av Lovalerie King, Fred Hobson
Häftad, 2024
381 kr
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In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in …
Literature at the Barricades
American Writer in the 1930's
Av Ralph Franklin Bogardus, Fred Hobson
Häftad, 1982
379 kr
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Literature at the Barricades provides an overview of the 1930s literary scene with reprints of such classic as James T. Farrell's ""The End of a Literary Decade"".
Southern Enigma
Essays on teh U.S. South
Av Fred Hobson
E-bok, 2011
84 kr
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El Sur americano está repleto de paradojas: se trata de uno de los lugares más hospitalarios y menos acogedores del mundo. Los ensayos incluidos en este libro constituyen la impresión de un hombre sobre distintos aspectos de la vida, el pasado y el presente en Dixie, y hablan de casi todo: la raza, …
Tell About the South
The Southern Rage to Explain
Av Fred Hobson
Häftad, 1983
508 kr
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In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region - some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on …
But Now I See
The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative
Av Fred Hobson
Häftad, 1999
379 kr
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The term ""conversion narrative"" usually refers to a particular form of expression that arose in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century. In that sense, the purely religious, the conversion narrative belongs to a rather remote history. But in this lucid, pathbreaking work, Fred Hobson uses …
Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays
Av Fred Hobson
Häftad, 2005
379 kr
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Perhaps the preeminent contemporary scholar of southern letters, Fred Hobson is adept at cutting through the many myths and self-illusions spun about the South and exposing a far more intriguing reality. In his inaugural collection of essays, Hobson offers both an astute and deeply personal take on …
Southern Writer in the Postmodern World
Av Fred Hobson
Inbunden, 1991
2699 kr
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In The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World Fred Hobson offers a witty and engaging "preliminary estimate" of some of the most prominent new figures in southern fiction. Although he discovers no shortage of talent, he does find "various and conflicting attitudes toward the south and the …
South to the Future
An American Region in the Twenty-first Century
Av Fred Hobson
Inbunden, 2002
2699 kr
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Until recently, the American South has often been treated in isolation by historians and literary critics. In these essays five scholars of southern history and literature evaluate elements of contemporary—and future—southern experience, including place, community, culture, class, gender, and …
Off the Rim Volume 1
Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood
Av Fred Hobson
Häftad, 2006
242 kr
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Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?"" Fred Hobson thus begins ""Off the Rim"", his narrative of college basketball and society, of …
