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Readings at the Edge of Literature
Av Myra Jehlen
Inbunden, 2002
974 kr
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Myra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. It is here, she argues, that the central paradoxes of the American project become clear - self-reliance …
Readings at the Edge of Literature
Av Myra Jehlen
Häftad, 2002
350 kr
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Myra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. It is here, she argues, that the central paradoxes of the American project become clear - self-reliance …
English Literatures of America
1500-1800
Av Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner
Häftad, 1996
1161 kr
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The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are …
Ideology and Classic American Literature
Av Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen
Häftad, 1987
654 kr
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This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a particular ideological view nor a particular view of ideology. On the contrary: these essays highlight the …
American Incarnation
The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent
Av Myra Jehlen
Häftad, 1989
394 kr
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In exploring the origins and character of the American liberal tradition, Myra Jehlen begins with the proposition that the decisive factor that shaped the European settlers’ idea of “America” or the “American” was material rather than conceptual—it was the physical fact of the land. European …
Five Fictions in Search of Truth
Av Myra Jehlen
Inbunden, 2008
496 kr
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Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes …
Five Fictions in Search of Truth
Av Myra Jehlen
Häftad, 2016
300 kr
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Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes …
English Literatures of America
1500-1800
Av Michael Warner, Myra Jehlen
E-bok, 2013
1394 kr
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The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are …
English Literatures of America
1500-1800
Av Michael Warner, Myra Jehlen
E-bok, 2013
1394 kr
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The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are …
Five Fictions in Search of Truth
Av Myra Jehlen
E-bok, 2008
410 kr
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Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth , Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes …
English Literatures of America
1500-1800
Av Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner
Inbunden, 1996
2841 kr
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The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are …
