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Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia
Häftad, 2000
326 kr
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The advertising campaigns launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography stand at the centre of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in cameras and film. Before the advent of Kodak advertising in 1888, writes Nancy Martha West, Americans …
Poetic Drive
American Poetry in the Age of Automobility
Av Joel Duncan
Inbunden, 2025
1511 kr
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How American poets have explored driving, in all its facets 'Whither goest thou, America,' asked Jack Kerouac in On the Road, 'in thy shiny car in the night?' For American poets, the act of driving has always harbored a critical dichotomy. It can express the thrill and the freedom of the open road, …
Golden Avant-garde
Idolatry, Commercialism and Art
Av Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello
Inbunden, 2000
812 kr
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Since the 18th century, artists have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for this, argues this analysis, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. They can either paint scenes of worship of the golden calf or they can fabricate the idol themselves.
Golden Avant-garde
Idolatry, Commercialism and Art
Av Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello
Häftad, 2000
505 kr
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Since the 18th century, artists have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for this, argues this analysis, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. They can either paint scenes of worship of the golden calf or they can fabricate the idol themselves.
Writing War in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2000
366 kr
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An examination of why the immense violence and suffering in the 20th century failed to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent their recurrence. By looking at the whole span of the century's writing on war, it provides a critique of art's ethical limitations.
Visions of the Maid
Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Av Robin Blaetz
Häftad, 2001
329 kr
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Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertizing, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. The presence of the 15th-century French heroine in the cinema is particularly intriguing in relation to the role of women …
Against the Unspeakable
Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America
Av Naomi Mandel
Inbunden, 2007
885 kr
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In the wake of World War II, the Nazi genocide of European Jews has come to stand for ""the unspeakable,"" posing crucial challenges to the representation of suffering, the articulation of identity, and the practice of ethics in an increasingly multinational and multicultural world. In this book, …
African Americans and the Culture of Pain
Häftad, 2008
332 kr
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In this compelling new study, Debra Walker King considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. …
Male Armor
The Soldier-hero in Contemporary American Culture
Inbunden, 2008
731 kr
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There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature - one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in ""From Here to Eternity"". In ""Male …
Male Armor
The Soldier-hero in Contemporary American Culture
Häftad, 2008
248 kr
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There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature - one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in ""From Here to Eternity"". In ""Male …
American Iconographic
National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination
Inbunden, 2010
906 kr
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In an era before affordable travel, National Geographic not only served as the first glimpse of countless other worlds for its readers, but it helped them confront sweeping historical change. There was a time when its cover, with the unmistakable yellow frame, seemed to be on every coffee table, in …
Chick Lit and Postfeminism
Häftad, 2011
277 kr
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Originally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Traditioncourse in the 1980s, ""chick lit"" mutated from a movement in American women’savant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women’s literature, journalism, and advice manuals. …
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies and the Problem of Culture
Av Eric Aronoff
Häftad, 2013
433 kr
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The term ""culture"" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of …
Failed Frontiersmen
White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance
Inbunden, 2015
898 kr
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In Failed Frontiersmen, James Donahue writes that one of the founding and most persistent mythologies of the United States is that of the American frontier. Looking at a selection of twentieth-century American male fiction writers—E. L. Doctorow, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Gerald …
American Road Narratives
Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film
Av Ann Brigham
Inbunden, 2015
979 kr
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The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche. Transforming our sense of place and identity--whether in terms of social and economic status, or race and ethnicity, or gender and sexuality—American mobility is perhaps nowhere more vividly captured than in the …
Fashion and Fiction
Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Häftad, 2016
429 kr
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During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization—shedding ethnic origins and signs of ""otherness"" to embrace a constructed American identity—was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of …
Stranger America
A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Av Josh Toth
Inbunden, 2018
1044 kr
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Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive ""other"" persist …
Stranger America
A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Av Josh Toth
Häftad, 2018
504 kr
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Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive ""other"" persist …
Women Writers of the Beat Era
Autobiograhy and Intertextuality
Häftad, 2018
429 kr
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The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation. Starting in the 1950s with works such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, the Beat Generation defined an …
Terrible Beauty
The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature
Av Marian Eide
Inbunden, 2019
1200 kr
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If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of …
Terrible Beauty
The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature
Av Marian Eide
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of …
Dandyism
Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
Av Len Gutkin
Inbunden, 2020
945 kr
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The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Proust's Recherche, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range …
Dandyism
Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
Av Len Gutkin
Häftad, 2020
465 kr
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The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Proust's Recherche, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range …
Fashioning Character
Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1511 kr
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It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as many consumers as possible. Fashion …
Fashioning Character
Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as many consumers as possible. Fashion …
Walk the Barrio
The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature
Inbunden, 2022
1511 kr
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Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place. Building on this self-evident premise, Walk the Barrio adds the less obvious claim that to write about place you must experience place. Thus, in this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks …
Walk the Barrio
The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature
Häftad, 2022
498 kr
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Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place. Building on this self-evident premise, Walk the Barrio adds the less obvious claim that to write about place you must experience place. Thus, in this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks …
Story Revolutions
Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age
Inbunden, 2022
1249 kr
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Social media has facilitated the sharing of once isolated testimonies to an extent and with an ease never before possible. The #MeToo movement provides a prime example of how such pooling of individual stories, in large enough numbers, can fuel political movements, fortify a sense of solidarity and …
Story Revolutions
Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age
Häftad, 2022
415 kr
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Social media has facilitated the sharing of once isolated testimonies to an extent and with an ease never before possible. The #MeToo movement provides a prime example of how such pooling of individual stories, in large enough numbers, can fuel political movements, fortify a sense of solidarity and …
Institutional Character
Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel
Inbunden, 2022
1249 kr
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How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in literary and intellectual culture. In …
