William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies – serie
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15 produkter
Achieving Our Country
Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 1999
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202 kr
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Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost philosophers challenges this lost generation …
Real American Dream
A Meditation on Hope
Häftad, 2000
282 kr
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Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville’s words, “the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart,” how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation’s premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for …
To Be the Poet
Inbunden, 2002
585 kr
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"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and …
Circles and Lines
The Shape of Life in Early America
Av John Demos
Inbunden, 2004
430 kr
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In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian as he unearths--in …
Architecture as Signs and Systems
For a Mannerist Time
Av Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown
Inbunden, 2004
440 kr
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Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in Complexity and Contradiction. Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in Learning from Las …
Reporting the Universe
Häftad, 2004
362 kr
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"The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported." And what writer worth his name, E. L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously, however furtively, take on the …
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate
Why Men and Class Matter
Häftad, 2012
315 kr
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The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world. Despite what is often reported, new mothers don’t “opt out” of work. They are pushed out by discriminating and inflexible workplaces. Today’s workplaces continue to idealize the worker who has someone other than …
Tiger Writing
Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
Av Gish Jen
Inbunden, 2013
443 kr
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For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders’ Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound …
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations
Av Greil Marcus
Inbunden, 2015
430 kr
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Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between …
Dissent of the Governed
A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty
Häftad, 1999
289 kr
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Between loyalty and disobedience; between recognition of the law’s authority and realization that the law is not always right: In America, this conflict is historic, with results as glorious as the mass protests of the civil rights movement and as inglorious as the armed violence of the militia …
Highbrow/Lowbrow
The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
Häftad, 1990
394 kr
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In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural …
Playing in the Dark
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Inbunden, 1992
414 kr
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Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to “put forth an argument for extending the study of American …
Southern Tradition
The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
Häftad, 1996
360 kr
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In recent years American conservatism has found a new voice, a new way of picking up the political pieces left in the wake of liberal policies. But what seems innovative, Eugene Genovese shows us, may in fact have very old roots. Tracing a certain strain of conservatism to its sources in a rich …
Writing Was Everything
Av Alfred Kazin
Häftad, 1999
334 kr
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For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as …
Just a Journalist
On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between
Inbunden, 2017
210 kr
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In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and …
