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Hemingways Primitivism - A Quest For Primal Authenticity

by Peter Rooney

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 In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingways work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingways fiction, the author traces his early experiences of post-frontier America and the decline of the American primitive. He shows how, based on actual experience, Hemingways unique brand of primitivism later influences his travels in both Spain and Africa. Each source of primal inspiration: the American Indian, the Spanish corrida and the African safari influences the other in a tripartite primitivism. By illuminating Hemingways quest for primal authenticity, whereby the Other as savage is negated by his nuanced understanding of traditions, the author shows how Hemingways depictions empower women, challenge white male superiority, and privilege nature. Hemingways transatlantic and transcontinental quest for authentic primitivism is also a transnational and transcultural quest, an attempt to understand a more complex version of history.
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The Paradox Of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac And Allen Ginsberg - From Self-Destruction To Self-Liberation

by Tanguy Harma

85,86€ + 10% CARD

 What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned, primarily, by a trope of nullification that acts as a menace for the self.
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The Nation Of Islam And Black Consciousness - The Works Of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, And Other Writers

by Ammar Abduh Aqeeli

90,17€ + 10% CARD

 The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which rarely give credit to the role of the Nation of Islams (NOI) teachings in the emergence of the movement and in shaping the subjects and themes of its literary works. This book reevaluates the common belief that Malcolm X is the most appealing black historical figure in the movements literature and demonstrates how the NOIs perception of black consciousness shaped the aesthetic sensibilities of the movements poets and playwrights in their fights against anti-black racism. The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness can be used in African American literature courses as it provides a thorough analysis of hidden literary texts written by black writers in the 1960s and 1970s. Reading this book today will help readers reflect on how a narrow understanding of "Americanness" is threatening to the American ideals of diversity and inclusiveness on which America was founded. Moreover, this book is useful for those who are interested in studying how identity politics functions to achieve certain social and cultural goals.
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Toni Morrison And The Maternal - From «The Bluest Eye» To «God Help The Child», Revised Edition

by Linda Wagner-Martin

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 This book explores Toni Morrison's use of family in her narratives, particularly on the roles of mother and child. .
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Richard Ford And The Fiction Of Masculinities - Foreword By Michael Kimmel

by Jose Armengol

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 By framing Ford's contemporary representations of masculinity within a more general context of American literature, this book reveals how his texts continue along a trajectory of earlier American fiction while they also re-examine masculinity in complex ways.
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William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, And The Cavalier Tradition

by Lorie Watkins Fulton

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 Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered the most reliable Faulknerian spokesperson, ample scholarship has demonstrated that he functions as far more than merely the authors mouthpiece. In William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition, Lorie Watkins Fulton defines Stevenss role and examines the scope of his influence. Fulton proposes that Faulkner uses similarities between himself and Stevens to voice, at a fictional remove, concerns about people of his own class and even of his own ancestry. Ultimately, she suggests that Stevenss manipulations of the law, his misunderstanding of human beings, and his rhetorically high-minded pursuit of «not so much truth as of justice, or of justice as he sees it» remove him ideologically only a degree or two away from the most terrifying dictators of the twentieth century.
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American Realist Fictions Of Marriage - From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton To Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins

by Kelli V. Randall

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 American Realist Fictions of Marriage intervenes in current critical debates in American literary realism by showing how realism functions as a mode of narration for fictive constructions of marriage and the race, gender, and class upheavals these depictions of marriage represent.
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Toni Morrison And The Maternal - From «The Bluest Eye» To «God Help The Child», Revised Edition

by Linda Wagner-Martin

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 A study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work. Beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2012 novel Home, it describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families.
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Playing With Expectations - Postmodern Narrative Choices And The African American Novel

by Preston Park Cooper

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 Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques.
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"The Game As It Is Played" - Essays On Theodore Dreiser

by Donald Pizer

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 The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizers essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreisers principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned in establishing the distinctive nature and quality of Dreisers naturalism in many of these essays. From one of Dreisers earliest short stories to his acknowledged masterpiece, An American Tragedy, Pizer demonstrates that in Dreisers hands naturalism is not the blunt instrument it is usually assumed to be but rather a powerful tool for the rendering of a complex view of the human condition. In addition, the essays explore several of the more controversial areas of Dreiser scholarship, including his late conversion to communism, his anti-Semitism, and the text of Sister Carrie.
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Desire And Disillusionment - A Guide To American Fiction Since 1890

by Lawrence E. Hussman

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 Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890 departs from the typical academic study in that it appeals to the general reading public, undergraduate and graduate students, and literary scholars. The books focus on a highly relatable subject, longing and loss, its running plot summaries, and lucid presentation account for this broad appeal. Lawrence E. Hussman examines selected novels and short stories of fifty major American fiction writers from Stephen Crane to Junot Diaz. The reader will also find references to American politics, history, and popular culture in the book. Additionally, the authors decidedly original, provocative critical approach delivers new insights that will reshape thinking about American literature as a reflection of the nations way of life. Literary critics will find the discussion of naturalism as a bridge to modernism and postmodernism especially enlightening. Furthermore, the book includes a summary of ideas about desire from the ancient philosophers to todays scientists who study the brain. Desire and Disillusionment can serve as a stimulating textbook in American literature, history, or philosophy classes.
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The Princess Story - Modeling The Feminine In Twentieth-Century American Fiction And Film

by Sarah Rothschild

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 What is a princess story? In this subgenre, newly defined in The Princess Story, the protagonist either is a princess or is attempting to become one: the girl transforms into or identifies herself as a princess through marriage or through discovered identity, or both. Princess lessons often accompany this transformation, lessons that not only educate the fictional girl but also the reader. Cultural expectations and anxieties about the roles of girls and women are transmitted through princess stories, and the dialogic nature of feminism and patriarchy, forces for progress and forces for tradition, can be explored through their study. In this book, feminism and progress are embodied by the first, second, and third wave of feminist princess stories; patriarchy and tradition are represented by Disney Studios princess stories. All of these stories influenced their readers, some of whom grew up to write their own princess stories, stories that reflected and they hoped furthered their ideological goals. Princess stories of the early 2000s are compelling in that they tensely balance romance and feminist assumptions. Anyone interested in folklore studies, feminist studies, childrens literature, Disney studies, film adaptations, psychology, sociology, or theories of child development will find The Princess Story: Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film essential reading. When contemplating the changes made by feminists to American culture, no one figure is as worth examining as the fictional princess, and no book has yet approached the topic as thoroughly as this one.
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Stephen King As A Postmodern Author

by Clotilde Landais

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 Drawing upon methods used in literary analysis and textual interpretation, this book proposes a new reading of Stephen Kingâ€™s fiction as a literary reflection on the artistic identity of the writer and on writing and shows that horrific descriptions do not necessarily exclude metafiction.
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Thomas Pynchon And The Postmodern Mythology Of The Underworld

by Evans Lansing Smith

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 Illustrates that the descent to the underworld is the single most important myth in Pynchon's work, conferring shape and significance upon each of his novels. This book offers a perspective on postmodernism, which is characterized by ludic syncretism - the playful synthesis of myths from a variety of cultures.
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Paul Auster And Postmodern Quest - On The Road To Nowhere

by Ilana Shiloh

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 Paul Auster published his first prose work, the autobiographical The Invention of Solitude, in 1982; since then his fiction has gained ever growing popular and critical acclaim. This book is a stimulating pioneering study of eight works that make up the Auster canon: The Invention of Solitude, the three novellas that comprise The New York Trilogy, and the novels In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, and Leviathan. Focusing on the quest which she sees as the master narrative of all of Austers novels Shiloh examines Austers writing in a multi-layered context of literary and philosophical paradigms relevant to his practice, such as the American tradition of the «open road,» the generic conventions of detective fiction, postmodernist concepts of the subject, Sartres and Camuss existentialist theories, and Freuds and Lacans psychoanalytic models, all of which offer enriching and insightful perspectives on Austers poetics.
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Autobiography, Ecology, And The Well-Placed Self - The Growth Of Natural Biography In Contemporary American Life Writing

by Nathan Straight

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 Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self expands the field of autobiography studies by describing an emergent genre, natural biography, that embeds the human subject in a more-than-human world. Through an ecocritical analysis of three contemporary U.S. authors William Kittredge, Terry Tempest Williams, and Mary Clearman Blew Nathan Straight illustrates how ecologically situated life writing bridges the human/nature divide and responds to the pressing environmental and communal demands of our times. In his exploration of the well-placed self he challenges traditional concepts of the autobiographical subject and considers new models of selfhood in relation to regional and national identities. His illuminating discussions of specific texts engage with ecofeminist and bioregional theory and will appeal to readers in environmental studies, literary criticism, and American regionalism. Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self presents an important new perspective on place-based identity and literature, and the inclusion of a «Selected Readings» appendix makes it a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don Delillo - Narratives Of Everyday Justice

by Jason S. Polley

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 The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive writers as Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo reconfigure what he calls «acts of justice» in various modalities and spaces. These authors re-conceptualize justice in their portrayals of peripheral groups, such as women, minorities, and outcasts. In lieu of fictionalizing justice in conventional courtrooms, these writers narratives make a virtue of representing the undetermined and everyday presence of justice. As a result, Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo succeed in demonstrating the ordinariness of personal concerns with justice. Loosely tracing a legacy of justice in American literature, this book also compares contemporary American narratives to canonized earlier American novels, such as Melvilles Moby Dick, Jamess The Bostonians, and Norriss McTeague. The book likewise examines contemporary writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. Polley concludes by observing that justice in contemporary American life is not about closure, but is an open-ended practice of human action, a theory that corresponds to postmodern theories of narrative.
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Modern And Postmodern Narratives Of Race, Gender, And Identity - The Descendants Of Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings

by Yoriko Ishida

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 The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between Jefferson and Hemings as fact, and many historical omissions regarding the affair have been revised since the 1998 DNA results. However, the identity and the dignity of the Hemings family, which were previously ignored in the official history, have been restored not only by science but also by literature. This book examines how African American writers have depicted the issues of race, gender, and identity for Sally Hemings and her descendants in modern and postmodern novels.
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Peter Matthiessen And Ecological Imagination

by Intaek Oh

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 Offers an ecocritical reading of the "Watson Trilogy" which draws together themes Matthiessen has been exploring both in his fiction and nonfiction. In this book, the study argues that his ecological imagination comes from his experience as a novelist, naturalist, environmentalist, social activist, and a student of Zen.
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Freaks In Late Modernist American Culture - Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, And Carson Mccullers

by Nancy Bombaci

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 This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics" a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about "freaks" by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies. These works are marked by an acceptance of the dysteleology, anarchy, and degeneration that racist discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries associated with racial and ethnic outsiders, particularly Jews. In a period of American culture beset with increasing pressures for social and political conformity and with the threat of fascism from Europe, these late modernist narratives about "freaks" defy oppressive norms and values as they search for an anarchic and transformational creativity.
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The Paradox Of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac And Allen Ginsberg - From Self-Destruction To Self-Liberation

by Tanguy Harma

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 What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned, primarily, by a trope of nullification that acts as a menace for the self.
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The Nation Of Islam And Black Consciousness - The Works Of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, And Other Writers

by Ammar Abduh Aqeeli

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 The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness pariticipates in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which rarely give credit to the role of the Nation of Islamâ€™s teachings in the emergence of the movement and in shaping the subjects and themes of its literary works.
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American Realist Fictions Of Marriage - From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton To Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins

by Kelli V. Randall

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 American Realist Fictions of Marriage intervenes in current critical debates in American literary realism by showing how realism functions as a mode of narration for fictive constructions of marriage and the race, gender, and class upheavals these depictions of marriage represent.
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Playing With Expectations - Postmodern Narrative Choices And The African American Novel

by Preston Park Cooper

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 Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques.
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