Wisconsin Project on American Writers – serie
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14 produkter
American Evasion of Philosophy
A Genealogy of Pragmatism
Av Cornel West, Francisco A. Scarano m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
246 kr
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Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West’s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied …
Selves at Risk
Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters
Av Ihab Hassan
Inbunden, 1989
299 kr
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An analysis of quests in contemporary American letters, fiction and non-fiction and about contemporary reality. The book explores general issues about quest, reviews work in fiction and non-fiction that define and develop the idea of quest.
Chicano Narrative
The Dialectics of Difference
Häftad, 1990
235 kr
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An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from Americo Parades' ""With His Pistol in His Hand"" to more recent work by women like Sandra Cisneros and Cherrie Moraga.
Huckleberry Finn As Idol and Target
The Functions of Criticism in Our Time
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
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The author places Huckleberry Finn in the context of long standing American debate about race and culture. He points out that this quintessentially American novel, assigned to many schools as an important weapon against racism, yet including the word ""nigger"", arouses controversy.
American Superrealism
Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s
Inbunden, 1997
656 kr
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This study of ""apocalyptic writer"" Nathanael West examines his body of work, exploring his distinctive method of negation. Locating him in an American avant-garde tradition, the author considers the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism as modes of social criticism.
Chicano Narrative
Dialectics of Difference
Inbunden, 1990
393 kr
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An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from Americo Parades' "With His Pistol in His Hand" to more recent work by women like Sandra Cisneros and Cherrie Moraga.
American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning
Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
Häftad, 1990
233 kr
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American Sublime
The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre
Av Rob Wilson
Häftad, 1991
233 kr
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Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, the author demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He adopts an historical approach to the subject.
Gaiety Transfigured
Gay Self-Representation in American Literature
Häftad, 1993
184 kr
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A contribution to the developing field of gay studies in contemporary literature, including references to gay scholars and imaginative writers from earlier in the century.
Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village
Conversing with the Moderns, 1915-31
Av Jack Selzer
Inbunden, 1997
650 kr
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Capturing the lively modernist milieu of Kenneth Burke's early career in Greenwich Village, where Burke arrived in 1915 fresh from high school in Pittsburgh, this book discovers him as an intellectual apprentice conversing with ""the moderns"".
Contingency Blues
Search for Foundations in American Criticism
Av Paul Jay
Inbunden, 1997
586 kr
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Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.
