Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825402
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825402
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser
Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American literature and culture. They establish parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American literature and culture. They establish parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
Author: Efraín Kristal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Claire McEachern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701977X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701977X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa
Author: Efrain Kristal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521864240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521864240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
Author: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Author: Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769744
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
Author: Crystal Parikh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095174
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095174
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.