20/21 – serie
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William Faulkner
An Economy of Complex Words
Inbunden, 2007
788 kr
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In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many African …
Pinnacle of Feeling
American Literature and Presidential Government
Av Sean McCann
Inbunden, 2008
788 kr
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There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency …
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 …
From Guilt to Shame
Auschwitz and After
Av Ruth Leys
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining …
Postmodern Belief
American Literature and Religion since 1960
Häftad, 2010
980 kr
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How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a …
Being Numerous
Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
Häftad, 2011
482 kr
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"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. He argues that the most important …
