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18 produkter
Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
Trends, causes and policy issues
Av Paulin Straughan, Angelique Chan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2512 kr
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Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating …
Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
Trends, causes and policy issues
Av Paulin Straughan, Angelique Chan m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
747 kr
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Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating …
Strange Talk
The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America
Av Gavin Jones
Häftad, 1999
450 kr
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Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the …
American Hungers
The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945
Av Gavin Jones
Häftad, 2009
442 kr
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Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These …
The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
Av Michael J. Collins, Gavin Jones
Inbunden, 2023
1516 kr
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This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance …
Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
Av Gavin Jones, Michael J. Collins
E-bok, 2023
469 kr
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This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance …
The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
Av Michael J. Collins, Gavin Jones
Häftad, 2023
617 kr
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This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance …
Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
Av Gavin Jones, Michael J. Collins
E-bok, 2023
469 kr
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This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance …
Failure and the American Writer
A Literary History
Av Gavin Jones
Inbunden, 2014
1025 kr
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If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often …
Failure and the American Writer
A Literary History
Av Gavin Jones
Häftad, 2014
617 kr
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If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often …
Failure and the American Writer
A Literary History
Av Gavin Jones
E-bok, 2014
477 kr
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If America worships success, then why has the nation''s literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often …
Failure and the American Writer
A Literary History
Av Gavin Jones
E-bok, 2014
488 kr
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If America worships success, then why has the nation''s literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often …
Reclaiming John Steinbeck
Writing for the Future of Humanity
Av Gavin Jones
Inbunden, 2021
695 kr
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John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental …
Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
Trends, causes and policy issues
Av Gavin Jones, Angelique Chan m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
883 kr
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Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating …
Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
Trends, causes and policy issues
Av Gavin Jones, Angelique Chan m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
883 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the very lowest-fertility countries in the whole world, and even China has reached fertility levels lower than those in many European countries. If these levels continue over long periods East Asia will soon face accelerating …
American Hungers
The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945
Av Gavin Jones
E-bok, 2009
574 kr
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Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These …
Reclaiming John Steinbeck
Writing for the Future of Humanity
Av Gavin Jones
Häftad, 2026
395 kr
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John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental …
Margaret
A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
Av Sylvester Judd, Gavin Jones
Häftad, 2009
457 kr
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This is a new edition of a classic work of the American Renaissance. Praised at the time as the most emphatically 'American' book ever written, ""Margaret"" is a breathtaking combination of female bildungsroman, utopian novel, and historical romance. First published in 1845, Sylvester Judd's novel …
