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Luminous Traversing
Wallace Stevens and the American Sublime
Inbunden, 2012
638 kr
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As Wallace Stevens once wrote, «a poem should be part of one’s sense of life». This book provides a record of readerly and critical explorations of the poems and life of the American poet. The author reads Stevens’s poems in the context of both the existing critical works and the commentaries …
Little Sister Death
Finitude in William Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury"
Inbunden, 2013
772 kr
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The volume is an attempt to read William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury while bearing in mind three phenomenological philosophies of death as proposed by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas. The literary analysis mainly reveals how Benjy senses Scheler’s intuitive certainty of …
Dwight Macdonald on Culture
The Happy Warrior of the Mind, Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2013
516 kr
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Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and ’60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless, Macdonald remains relevant …
Collisions of Conflict
Studies in American History and Culture, 1820-1920
Inbunden, 2014
539 kr
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This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA …
