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22 produkter
American Jeremiad
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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When Sacvan Bercovitch's The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans' writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition, Bercovitch has …
Puritan Origins of the American Self
With a New Preface
Häftad, 2011
322 kr
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“Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of ‘the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.’”—Jack P. Greene, History “The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller.”—David Levin, William and Mary Quarterly “A …
Rites of Assent
Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America
Häftad, 1992
943 kr
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The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the …
American Puritan Imagination
Essays in Revaluation
Av Sacvan Bercovitch, S. Bercovitch m. fl.
Häftad, 1974
640 kr
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Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early American literature has come increasing recognition of its quality and a better understanding of its place in the continuity of American culture. However, …
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 …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820
Inbunden, 1994
2796 kr
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Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 2, Prose Writing 1820-1865
Inbunden, 1995
2746 kr
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This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 3, Prose writing, 1860-1920
Inbunden, 2005
2730 kr
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This volume covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive historical changes then underway. Richard Brodhead describes the foundation of a permanent literary culture in America. Nancy Bentley locates the origins of …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910
Inbunden, 2004
2746 kr
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This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 5, Poetry and Criticism, 1900-1950
Inbunden, 2003
2599 kr
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This is the fullest account to date of American poetry and literary criticism in the Modernist period. Andrew Dubois and Frank Lentricchia examine the work of Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens. They show how the conditions of literary production in a democratic, …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 6, Prose Writing, 1910-1950
Inbunden, 2002
2500 kr
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Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the 'lyric years' to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990
Inbunden, 1999
2697 kr
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Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995
Inbunden, 1996
2746 kr
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The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing, and includes the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. The …
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820
Häftad, 1997
973 kr
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Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and …
Office of the "Scarlet Letter"
Häftad, 1992
338 kr
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'Recipient of the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize.' "Goes a long way to proving that any literary masterpiece, read with sympathy and intelligence, works to re-establish the connections between the work of art and the life and thought of its time."--James R. Mellow, 'Times …
Office of Scarlet Letter
Inbunden, 2017
3146 kr
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"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols …
Rites of Assent
Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America
E-bok, 2014
996 kr
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The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the …
Rites of Assent
Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America
E-bok, 2014
996 kr
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The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the …
Office of Scarlet Letter
E-bok, 2017
1061 kr
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"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols …
Office of Scarlet Letter
E-bok, 2017
932 kr
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"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols …
Office of Scarlet Letter
Häftad, 2013
926 kr
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"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols …
