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13 produkter
Portable American Realism Reader
Av Various, James Nagel m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
293 kr
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This is an anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. Realist writers, represented by Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather among others, sought to paint "life as it is, human feelings in their …
Writing the American Classics
Av Tom Quirk
Häftad, 1990
656 kr
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This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the ""stories of stories,"" plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in …
Bergson and American Culture
The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens
Av Tom Quirk
Häftad, 2011
656 kr
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A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback …
Mark Twain and Human Nature
Av Tom Quirk
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment—and to …
Portable American Realism Reader
E-bok, 1997
264 kr
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During the pivotal period of America?s international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world …
Portable Mark Twain
Av Mark Twain, Tom Quirk
E-bok, 2004
162 kr
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Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world''s best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain?s favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I …
Writing the American Classics
E-bok, 2018
448 kr
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This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a …
Bergson and American Culture
The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens
Av Tom Quirk
E-bok, 2017
458 kr
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Bergsonian "vitalism" challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility. Quirk traces the impact of Bergsonism upon the American sensibility and shows how individual writers …
Bergson and American Culture
The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens
Av Tom Quirk
E-bok, 2017
436 kr
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Bergsonian "vitalism" challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility. Quirk traces the impact of Bergsonism upon the American sensibility and shows how individual writers …
Writing the American Classics
E-bok, 2018
436 kr
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This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a …
Time Matters
Spend Your Time with People that Swerve for Squirrels
Häftad, 2025
1025 kr
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