Visionary Compacts

Visionary Compacts PDF Author: Donald E. Pease
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Visionary Compacts

Visionary Compacts PDF Author: Donald E. Pease
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Transcendental Resistance

Transcendental Resistance PDF Author: Johannes Voelz
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 158465936X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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A timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists

National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives

National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives PDF Author: Donald E. Pease
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity." This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake. Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson

American Studies

American Studies PDF Author: Jack Salzman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521365598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124

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This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Emerson's Pragmatic Vision

Emerson's Pragmatic Vision PDF Author: David Jacobson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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America's Continuing Story

America's Continuing Story PDF Author: Michael Lund
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Literary History in America has been built around individual names, titles, and dates, such as the years in which significant works of fiction were published. Yet most of the fiction published from 1850 to 1900 first appeared in a number of installment formats. That books were first made available to the public in parts has been dismissed as an interesting but critically irrelevant fact of literary history, but now scholars recognize that modes of production shape literary meanings, not just for individual works, but in the larger culture as well. Lund explains how most American novels were published and read between 1850 and 1900, then provides the titles of several hundred serial works, their parts' divisions, and the dates of publication. Lund considers 69 authors and 285 titles, making America's Continuing Story the most complete study of its kind to date.

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass PDF Author: Susan Belasco
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803260008
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 503

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This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman?s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector?s item, this edition is now viewed as the poet?s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy. ΓΈ The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitman?s poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic issues, nineteenth-century America, and even the complex typographical history of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The volume also includes a tribute from the renowned poet Galway Kinnell.

The Line's Eye

The Line's Eye PDF Author: Elisa New
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674534629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests this claim. A new reading of how poetry "sees," her work is a passionate defense of the power of the poem, the ethics of perception, and the broader possibilities of American sight. American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology would allow. Moreover, New argues, their ways of seeing draw on, and develop, a vigorous mode of national representation alternative to the appropriative sort found in the quintessential American genre of encounter, the romance. Grounding her readings of Dickinson, Frost, Moore, and Williams in foundational texts by Edwards, Jefferson, Audubon, and Thoreau, New shows how varieties of attentiveness and solicitude cultivated in the early literature are realized in later poetry. She then discloses how these ideas infuse the philosophical notions about pragmatic experience codified by Emerson, James, and Dewey. As these philosophers insisted, and as New's readings prove, art is where the experience of experience can be had: to read, as to write, a poem is to let the line guide one's way.

Engendering Romance

Engendering Romance PDF Author: E. Miller Budick
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300055573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Describes how four 20th-century women writers have inherited and adapted a tradition of American romance. Analyzing fiction by Faulkner and others, this work goes on to explain how women have updated the genre to include alternatives to matriarchal (as well as patriarchal) constructions.

The Puritan Origins of American Sex

The Puritan Origins of American Sex PDF Author: Tracy Fessenden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692363
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.