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Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies and mutual entanglements continue today, when contemporary cultures of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-11
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The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the difficulty of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-19
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The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer’s essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreiser’s principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned in establishing the distinctive nature and quality of Dreiser’s naturalism in many of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-05
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The Language of Self explores the portrayal of subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s fiction. It proposes that his characters’ conception of self is determined by the tension between a desire for connection and a longing for isolation.The particular form taken by this language...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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This book seeks to critically engage with issues arising out of, and hotly debated within, Indian writing in English and its ‘other’: Bhasa writing. The central issue is the representation of nation in literary texts, which has divided these two literary traditions. At...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are «important – and they’re dangerous – because we’re the keepers of the dreams.» The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Continued Growth lautet das Lebensprinzip Margaret Fullers. Der Nachweis der konsequenten Orientierung Fullers an diesem philosophischen Konzept wird in diesem Buch erstmals durchgängig und in vollem Umfang erbracht. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz vereint im Rahmen einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Conventional understandings of the family in nineteenth-century literary studies depict a venerated institution rooted in sentiment, sympathy, and intimacy. American Blood upends this notion, showing how novels of the period frequently emphasize the darker sides of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-04
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Gwendolyn MacEwen war eine Kultfigur der Literaturszene Torontos der 1960er/1970er Jahre. Als exotisch und extravagant findet man sie und ihr Werk in diesem Zusammenhang beschrieben, als «Queen of Canadian Poetry» wird sie von Zeitgenossen bezeichnet. Heute ist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-08-23
Collection :
Cultural History of Literature
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This collection brings together twelve essays that tackle the nexus between gender, literature, and the visual arts. While it provides a philosophical and theoretical background for some of the factors that shape female creativity, it also considers the contributions of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-13
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A tide of newfound prosperity swept through America as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Modernity had arrived. Yet amid this climate of progress, concerns over the perils of modernity and civilization began to creep into the national consciousness....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-08-01
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The volume is an attempt to read William Faulkner’sThe 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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-10
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-07-10
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American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots. But, as Paul Grimstad shows, the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit of earlier experiments inAmerican literature.
Ralph Waldo...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-03
Collection :
Reading the Novel
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Modern Ekphrasis explores the analogical relations between modern poetry and painting in ekphrasis from Horace’s mimetic «ut pictura poesis» tradition to Lessing’s temporal/spatial antithesis, and the analogy’s post-modern deconstruction with Derrida. The genesis of...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-06-03
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Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poet’s early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary’s Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowell’s early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowell’s early poetry...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-05-29
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