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Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902
Av Theodore Dreiser, Yoshinobu Hakutani
E-bok, 2024
653 kr
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Dreiser''s captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America''s famous figures In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Theodore Dreiser''s pre-fame writings on the cultural milieu of his day. In these brief …
Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902
Av Theodore Dreiser, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2007
358 kr
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Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures In this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Theodore Dreiser's pre-fame writings on the cultural milieu of his day. In these brief …
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance
Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
Inbunden, 2019
2887 kr
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The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between 1890 and 1910, gathered momentum in the 1930s, …
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance
Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
Häftad, 2019
744 kr
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The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between 1890 and 1910, gathered momentum in the 1930s, …
Richard Wright
A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960
Av Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2014
759 kr
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In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century. The author of Black Boy and Native Son, among other works, Wright wrote unflinchingly about the black experience in …
Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism
From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku
Häftad, 2021
600 kr
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Female «Bildungsroman» by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston
A Postmodern Reading
Av Pin-chia Feng, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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This study traces the textual construction of identity in the female Bildungsroman of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. Deploying the «politics of rememory» in their textual representation of female development, Morrison and Kingston unearth the multiple layers of repressed memories, …
From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison
Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative
Av Jeffrey J. Folks, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2001
378 kr
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From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, …
Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America
From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place
Av Jane Hendler, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2001
378 kr
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Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and conflict dispute and re-imagine the dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity in postwar culture. Working with …
Lillian Hellman and August Wilson
Dramatizing a New American Identity
Av Margaret Booker, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
725 kr
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This book critically discusses the works of two seemingly different and unconnected playwrights, Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. By analyzing the black presence in Hellman and its counterpart white presence in Wilson, it exposes interracial boundaries and illuminates the architecture of the new …
Blues Aesthetic and the Making of American Identity in the Literature of the South
Av Barbara A. Baker, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
755 kr
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The blues aesthetic as formulated by Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray holds that the African-American vernacular tradition, with blues music at its core, has had an unparalleled impact on the whole of American culture and art. Examining the manner in which the aesthetics related to blues music are …
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance
Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
E-bok, 2019
876 kr
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The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between 1890 and 1910, gathered momentum in the 1930s, …
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance
Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
E-bok, 2019
857 kr
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The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between 1890 and 1910, gathered momentum in the 1930s, …
American Realist Fictions of Marriage
From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins
Av Kelli V. Randall, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2017
1330 kr
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American Realist Fictions of Marriage: From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins intervenes in the field of American literary realism by arguing that selected marriage fiction of Kate Chopin, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Williams Dean Howells, Emma Dunham-Kelly, and …
Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness
The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers
Av Ammar Abduh Aqeeli, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2019
1207 kr
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The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which rarely give credit to the role of the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) …
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition
Av Linda Wagner-Martin, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2019
652 kr
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In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison’s work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel God Help the Child. Wagner-Martin describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped …
Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation
Av Tanguy Harma, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2022
1080 kr
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More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by …
Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku
Häftad, 2021
593 kr
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Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku is a reading of the haiku collected in Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich, (2003), one of the two largest collections of English haiku. “Above all,” Kerouac wrote in his journal, “a Haiku must be very simple and free …
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
Av Nancy Bombaci, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2024
450 kr
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This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about "freaks" by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod …
Lynching in American Literature and Journalism
Inbunden, 2022
1388 kr
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Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in …
Lynching in American Literature and Journalism
Häftad, 2024
528 kr
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Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in …
American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics
Inbunden, 2020
1469 kr
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American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan as it transformed over the years and eventually made its way to the Western world. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the prominent Eastern philosophies expressed through haiku, such as …
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines
Av Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2022
1632 kr
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Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships between haiku and other arts, such as essay writing, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and …
Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld
Av Evans Lansing Smith, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2012
1311 kr
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Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American literature, Thomas Pynchon. Through close readings and broad amplification, this book illustrates that the descent to the …
"Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus"
Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure
Av Rod Phillips, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2000
630 kr
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The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon —the product of a postwar-youth culture with roots in the cities of New York and San Francisco. This study examines another side of the Beat Movement: its strong desire for a …
Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst
Black Family (dys)function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst
Av Licia Morrow Calloway, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Häftad, 2003
378 kr
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During the Harlem Renaissance, competing rhetorics of racial uplift centered upon concerns regarding class identification and the process of acculturation into American society. This book demonstrates how the practice of motherhood and the organization of household relations operated to address the …
Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama
Av Thaddeus Wakefield, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
693 kr
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The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler’s colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson’s King Hedley II (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and …
Don DeLillo
Balance at the Edge of Belief
Av Jesse Kavadlo, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2003
771 kr
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Don DeLillo – winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize – is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial …
John Updike’s Human Comedy
Comic Morality in "The Centaur" and the "Rabbit" Novels
Av Brian Keener, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2005
755 kr
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The comedy in John Updike’s most important works – The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered – defines a comic world and its morality. Although critics have failed to recognize the extent and the importance of Updike’s comedy, his serious fiction …
Love and Death in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
Av Tricia M. Farwell, Yoshinobu Hakutani
Inbunden, 2006
819 kr
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Love and Death in Edith Wharton’s Fiction examines the struggle between philosophic and scientific notions of love found throughout Wharton’s works. The role of death in romantic relationships highlights the central struggle Wharton saw as implicit in the concept of love: the struggle between …
