Contributions to the Study of American Literature – serie
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Marriage of Heaven and Earth
Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller
E-bok, 2000
1315 kr
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From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture, as scores of experimenters sought to change lead into gold. Though its significance declined with the rise of chemistry, alchemy continued to captivate the imagination of writers and its images still …
Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton
E-bok, 1999
1344 kr
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The interplay between solitude and society was a particularly persistent theme in nineteenth-century American literature, though writers approached this theme in different ways. Poe explored the metaphysical significance of isolation and held solitude in high esteem; Hawthorne viewed the theme in …
Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley
E-bok, 2000
1076 kr
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The volume approaches Greeleys novels by comparing him to the 19th-century French writer Honoré de Balzac. A prolific and popular author, Balzac recorded his milieu in tremendous detail, created a fictional universe peopled by hundreds of characters, and explored the role of Catholicism in his …
Post-Utopian Imagination
American Culture in the Long 1950s
E-bok, 2002
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In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This …
Marriage of Heaven and Earth
Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller
Inbunden, 2000
1227 kr
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From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture, as scores of experimenters sought to change lead into gold. Though its significance declined with the rise of chemistry, alchemy continued to captivate the imagination of writers and its images still …
American Carnival
Seeing and Reading American Culture
Inbunden, 2001
983 kr
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Traditionally, the carnival mode in Europe offers a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions; however, through the presentation and representation of that which is deemed exotic and unconventional, American carnival proposes an alternative landscape. While other authors have generally …
Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry
The Geography of Grief
Inbunden, 2004
1390 kr
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Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her death. McGowan argues that Sexton's poetry collections develop a three-way investigation into the possibilities of language to convey an individual's …
Impossible to Say
Representing Religious Mystery in Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O'Connor
Inbunden, 2002
983 kr
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Although Judaism and Catholicism have important differences, both religions contain elements of religious mystery, aspects of belief that transcend the rational. Each religion additionally provides believers a concrete method for encountering the numinous: following the commandments in Judaism or …
