European Studies in North American Literature and Culture – serie
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Biofictions
The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama
Av Martin Middeke, Werner Huber
Inbunden, 1999
1433 kr
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A pioneering collection of articles on fictionalized biographies of the Romantics in contemporary fiction and drama.It appears that the lives of the British Romantics and the myths surrounding them have a special appeal for contemporary writers.The present volume sets out to explore this renewed …
Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature
Reimagining Nativeness
Av Eva Gruber
Inbunden, 2008
1494 kr
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Encompassing view of humor in recent Native North American literature, with particular focus on Native self-image and identity.In contrast to the popular cliché of the "stoic Indian," humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature testifies to the …
Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Häftad, 1999
381 kr
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A critical study of the films of Stanley Kubrick, one of the great directors of the century.García Mainar's critical study of the films of the late Stanley Kubrick includes analysis of all but his last work, Eyes Wide Shut, and offers both a formal analysis of the films based on style and narrative …
Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich
Inbunden, 2003
1433 kr
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Study of three North American women novelists combining the standpoints of gender studies and narratology.By analyzing the works of Thomas, Marlatt, and Erdrich through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings to light new perspectives on their …
Margaret Atwood
Works and Impact
Häftad, 2002
502 kr
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A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writerMargaret Atwood.Novelist, poet, cultural critic, Margaret Atwood is one of the most fascinating, versatile, and productive authors of our time, a superb writer in any genre she chooses to tackle. This book was prepared on the occasion …
History of Literature in Canada
English-Canadian and French-Canadian
Inbunden, 2008
682 kr
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The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature.From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of world literature. Works by English-Canadian writers -- both established writers such as Margaret Atwood …
Gained Ground
Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
Av Eva Gruber, Caroline Rosenthal
Inbunden, 2018
677 kr
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Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework.Since the elections of Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, unprecedented international attention is being drawn …
Thomas King
Works and Impact
Av Eva Gruber
Inbunden, 2012
1940 kr
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A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the work of one of the foremost Native North American writers and his reception and influence.Thomas King is one of North America's foremost Native writers, best known for his novels, including Green Grass, Running Water, for the DreadfulWater mysteries, and …
Canadian Short Story
Interpretations
Häftad, 2010
558 kr
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The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories.Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's …
Farm Novel in North America
Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945
Inbunden, 2013
1956 kr
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Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine.From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hémon's Maria …
Musical Novel
Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction
Inbunden, 2014
1418 kr
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WINNER: 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardAnalyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations.What is a "musical novel"? This book …
Future-Founding Poetry
Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2015
1956 kr
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An investigation of how American poetry since Whitman makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about what the future is and how it may be affectednow.Although issues of futurity have become more and more central to …
Pluralist Desires
Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War
Inbunden, 2015
1433 kr
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Excavates the contemporary revival of 19th-century cultural pluralism, revealing how American novelists since the 1990s have appropriated the historical novel in the pursuit of selfhood rather than truth, fundamentally repositioning the genre in American culture.In Pluralist Desires, Philipp …
European Perspectives on John Updike
Av Laurence W Mazzeno, Sue Norton
Inbunden, 2018
1433 kr
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A collection of essays that perceive Updike's America through the eyes of Western and Eastern European readers and scholars, contributing to Updike scholarship while demonstrating his resonance across the Atlantic.From the publication in 1958 of his first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame …
Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction
A Book with Maps in It
Av Christine Lorre-Johnston, Eleonora Rao
Inbunden, 2018
1432 kr
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New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis.Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has revolutionized the architecture of the short …
Musical Novel
Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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WINNER: 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardAnalyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations.What is a "musical novel"? This book …
Vote with a Bullet
Assassination in American Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
1233 kr
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Conceptualizes the genre of American assassination fiction as a dramatization of the tension between individualism and mass society in US culture.Vote with a Bullet is the first systematic study of assassination in American fiction. It proffers not only a fundamental overview of the genre but also …
Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction
Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure
Av Paula Martín-Salván, Sascha Pohlmann
Inbunden, 2024
1493 kr
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Explores modern and contemporary American literature's contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studiesIn the twenty-first century, transparency has become an ambiguous buzzword both in the public and the private realms (e.g., Wikileaks and the Snowden affair; social …
Analog Fictions for the Digital Age
Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000
Inbunden, 2012
983 kr
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Shows how current photographic discourse can illuminate the analysis of recent literary realism and proposes a truly original photographic hermeneutics for literary study.Both realist, post-postmodernist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and the legacy of analog photography in its recent …
