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The postwar period witnessed an outpouring of white life novels--that is, texts by African American writers focused almost exclusively on white characters. Almost every major mid-twentieth century black writer, including Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-04
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In The Unsettlement of America, Anna Brickhouse explores the fascinating career and ambivalent narrative legacy of Paquiquineo, a largely forgotten Native translator of the early modern Atlantic world. Encountered by Spanish explorers in 1561 near the future site of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-01
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Even a cursory glance at the letters, speeches, and essays of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) reveals that these two nineteenth-century feminists relied on Biblical and folk proverbs to make their relentless case for the equality of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-09-10
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Artists explored the dark places of the American experience during the seventies. After providing an overview of the rhetorical device allegory, Barthes’s concept of mythology and Foucault’s concept of power relations, the author establishes a connection between the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Als Erneuerer des Theaters und mit einem ausgeprägten Hang zum Pessimismus sind Luigi Pirandello und Eugene O’Neill in die Literaturgeschichte eingegangen. Entfremdungserscheinungen und das nahezu unausweichliche Scheitern sind wiederkehrende Motive in den Werken...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Die Untersuchung zeigt eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung von Traditionslinien weiblichen Schreibens in den USA von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Ära der New Woman auf. Diese Übergangsphase ist von Contending Forces bestimmt:Die Autorinnen bewegen sich in einem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment.The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-03
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Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-06-24
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The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving’sThe Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-05-13
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The oral tradition has always played an important role in African American literature, ranging from works such as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God to Toni Morrison's Beloved. These and countless other novels affirm the power of sonance and sound in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-07
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This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas (three of the essays involve Canadian and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-05
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Die Fotodokumentation 12 Million Black Voices von Richard Wright und Edwin Rosskam und der Gemäldezyklus The Migration of the Negro von Jacob Lawrence befassen sich mit der Great Migration, der afro-amerikanischen Urbanisierungsbewegung Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-01
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A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRYA Companion to Modernist PoetryA Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-03-31
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The diversity of gay men’s life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-06
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Themes in History
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Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in “written modernism,” tracking cultural and literary debates and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-05
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Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).
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Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-21
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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-13
Collection :
Blackwell Anthologies
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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Blackwell Anthologies
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This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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