Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940450127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Novels Mont Saint Michel the Education
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940450127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940450127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Novels
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940450127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940450127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Reading America
Author: Denis Donoghue
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Here is a selection by the distinguished critic of his essays and commentaries on American writing and writers, from Emerson and Whitman through Auden and Ashbery. Denis Donoghue examines the canon in the light of what he takes to be the central dynamic of the American enterprise--the imperatives of a powerful national past versus the subversions of an irrevocably anarchic spirit.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Here is a selection by the distinguished critic of his essays and commentaries on American writing and writers, from Emerson and Whitman through Auden and Ashbery. Denis Donoghue examines the canon in the light of what he takes to be the central dynamic of the American enterprise--the imperatives of a powerful national past versus the subversions of an irrevocably anarchic spirit.
Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: James E. Dobson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331967322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that disruptions were primarily the result of encounters with new communication and transportation technologies. Through readings of major autobiographical works of the period, James E. Dobson argues that the range of affective responses to writing, communicating, and traveling at increasing speed and distance were registered in this literature’s formal innovation. These autobiographical works, Dobson claims, complicate our understanding of the lived experience of time, temporality, and existing accounts of periodization. This study first examines the competing views of space and time in the nineteenth century and then moves to examine how high-speed train travel altered American literary regionalism, the region, and history. Later chapters examine two narratives of failed homecoming that are deeply ambivalent about modernity and technology, Henry James’s The American Scene and Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday, before a reading of the telephone network as a metaphor for historiography and autobiography in Henry Adams’s The Education of Henry Adams.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331967322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that disruptions were primarily the result of encounters with new communication and transportation technologies. Through readings of major autobiographical works of the period, James E. Dobson argues that the range of affective responses to writing, communicating, and traveling at increasing speed and distance were registered in this literature’s formal innovation. These autobiographical works, Dobson claims, complicate our understanding of the lived experience of time, temporality, and existing accounts of periodization. This study first examines the competing views of space and time in the nineteenth century and then moves to examine how high-speed train travel altered American literary regionalism, the region, and history. Later chapters examine two narratives of failed homecoming that are deeply ambivalent about modernity and technology, Henry James’s The American Scene and Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday, before a reading of the telephone network as a metaphor for historiography and autobiography in Henry Adams’s The Education of Henry Adams.
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Author: Christopher Riches
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019251850X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1431
Book Description
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019251850X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1431
Book Description
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Pragmatist Realism
Author: Sämi Ludwig
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299176648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ludwig (English, U. of Berne, Switzerland) argues that the artistic quality of American realist texts, such as those written by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, is best appreciated by approaching them from a cognitive perspective rather than from a linguistic or formalistic one. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299176648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ludwig (English, U. of Berne, Switzerland) argues that the artistic quality of American realist texts, such as those written by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, is best appreciated by approaching them from a cognitive perspective rather than from a linguistic or formalistic one. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
American Literature
Author: Hans Bertens
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135104581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This comprehensive history of American Literature traces its development from the earliest colonial writings of the late 1500s through to the present day. This lively, engaging and highly accessible guide: offers lucid discussions of all major influences and movements such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Postmodernism draws on the historical, cultural, and political contexts of key literary texts and authors covers the whole range of American literature: prose, poetry, theatre and experimental literature includes substantial sections on native and ethnic American literatures explains and contextualises major events, terms and figures in American history. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to situate their reading of American Literature in the appropriate religious, cultural, and political contexts.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135104581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This comprehensive history of American Literature traces its development from the earliest colonial writings of the late 1500s through to the present day. This lively, engaging and highly accessible guide: offers lucid discussions of all major influences and movements such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Postmodernism draws on the historical, cultural, and political contexts of key literary texts and authors covers the whole range of American literature: prose, poetry, theatre and experimental literature includes substantial sections on native and ethnic American literatures explains and contextualises major events, terms and figures in American history. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to situate their reading of American Literature in the appropriate religious, cultural, and political contexts.
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Author: Dominic Head
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521831792
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1241
Book Description
This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521831792
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1241
Book Description
This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.
The Claims of Experience
Author: Nolan Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190060697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? The Claims of Experience provides a new theory for what makes autobiography political throughout the history of the United States and today. Across five chapters, Nolan Bennett examines the democratic crises that encouraged a diverse cast of figures to bear their stories: Benjamin Franklin amid the revolutionary era and its aftermath, Frederick Douglass in the antebellum and abolitionist movements, Henry Adams in the Gilded Age and its anxieties of industrial change, Emma Goldman among the first Red Scare and state opposition to radical speech, and Whittaker Chambers amid the second Red Scare that initiated the anticommunist turn of modern conservatism. These authors made what Bennett calls a "claim of experience": a life narrative that offers its audience new community by restoring to readers and author alike from prevailing political authorities the power to remake and make meaning of their lives. Whereas political theorists and activists have often seen autobiography to be too individualist or a mere documentary source of evidence, this theory reveals the democratic power that life narratives both written and spoken have offered those on the margins and in the mainstream. When successful, claims of experience redistribute popular authority from unsettled institutions and identities to new democratic visions. This book offers both a method for understanding the politics of life narrative and a call to anticipate claims of experience as they appear today. American politics, democracy, authority, life writing, autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Emma Goldman, Whittaker Chambers"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190060697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? The Claims of Experience provides a new theory for what makes autobiography political throughout the history of the United States and today. Across five chapters, Nolan Bennett examines the democratic crises that encouraged a diverse cast of figures to bear their stories: Benjamin Franklin amid the revolutionary era and its aftermath, Frederick Douglass in the antebellum and abolitionist movements, Henry Adams in the Gilded Age and its anxieties of industrial change, Emma Goldman among the first Red Scare and state opposition to radical speech, and Whittaker Chambers amid the second Red Scare that initiated the anticommunist turn of modern conservatism. These authors made what Bennett calls a "claim of experience": a life narrative that offers its audience new community by restoring to readers and author alike from prevailing political authorities the power to remake and make meaning of their lives. Whereas political theorists and activists have often seen autobiography to be too individualist or a mere documentary source of evidence, this theory reveals the democratic power that life narratives both written and spoken have offered those on the margins and in the mainstream. When successful, claims of experience redistribute popular authority from unsettled institutions and identities to new democratic visions. This book offers both a method for understanding the politics of life narrative and a call to anticipate claims of experience as they appear today. American politics, democracy, authority, life writing, autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Emma Goldman, Whittaker Chambers"--
Living American Literature
Author: W. Tasker Witham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description