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  • - Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
    af Nancy Bombaci
    673,95 kr.

  • af Tanguy Harma
    1.013,95 kr.

    More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned, primarily, by a trope of nullification that acts as a menace for the self. This tropism for destruction and death is not only emblematic of their works, it is also used as a literary strategy that seeks to conquer the fear of self-annihilation through the writing itself. It is precisely this interplay¿approached through an Existentialism that simultaneously converges upon the Transcendentalist legacy of Beat writing¿which probes the paradoxical dimension of the texts, enabling the mythological figure of Thanatos to take centre stage.The critical synergy of the book, brought about by relating American literature and culture to European thought, enables in-depth analyses of a selection of novels and poems, grasped through their aesthetic, ontological and historical dimensions. Shedding new light on the literary strategies of two widely misunderstood American writers of the twentieth century, this captivating study into the drives for self-destruction and self-liberation encapsulated by Kerouac and Ginsberg sets out to reinvent the well-worn definition of ¿Beat¿ through its original approach¿an essential critical piece for all those interested in the American counterculture.

  • - Essays on Theodore Dreiser
    af Donald Pizer
    1.173,95 kr.

    The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer's essays on Theodore Dreiser. The essays explore several of the more controversial areas of Dreiser scholarship, including his late conversion to communism, his anti-Semitism, and the text of Sister Carrie.

  • - Narratives of Everyday Justice
    af Jason S. Polley
    738,95 kr.

    Proposes readings of justice in contemporary American literature. This book examines contemporary writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. It concludes by observing that justice in contemporary American life is not about closure, but is an open-ended practice of human action, a theory that corresponds to postmodern theories of narrative.

  • - Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel
    af Preston Park Cooper
    1.093,95 kr.

    Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques.

  • - The Growth of Natural Biography in Contemporary American Life Writing
    af Nathan Straight
    1.002,95 kr.

    Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self

  • af Lorie Watkins Fulton
    897,95 kr.

    Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as character similar to William Faulkner in his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered reliable Faulknerian spokesperson, ample scholarship has demonstrated that he functions as far more than the author's mouthpiece. This book defines Stevens' role and examines scope of his influence.

  • - Faulkner's Appropriations of Balzac's Writings
    af Merrill Horton
    1.316,95 kr.

    Upends Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honore de Balzac in William Faulkner's oeuvre.

  • af Intaek Oh
    738,95 kr.

    Offers an ecocritical reading of the "Watson Trilogy" which draws together themes Matthiessen has been exploring both in his fiction and nonfiction. In this book, the study argues that his ecological imagination comes from his experience as a novelist, naturalist, environmentalist, social activist, and a student of Zen.

  • - The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
    af Yoriko Ishida
    805,95 kr.

    The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. This book examines how African American writers have depicted the issues of race, gender, and identity for Sally Hemings and her descendants in modern and postmodern novels.

  • af Randy Laist
    1.196,95 kr.

    Don DeLillo is a phenomenologist of the contemporary technoscape and an ecologist of our new kind of natural habitat. This book examines the variety of modes in which DeLillo's fictions illustrate the technologically mediated confluence of his human subjects and the field of cultural objects in which they discover themselves.

  • - Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
    af Raj Chandarlapaty
    1.248,95 kr.

  • - Re-membering the Body
    af Maria C. Zamora
    637,95 kr.

  • - Historical and Critical Essays
     
    767,95 kr.

  • - Foreword by Michael Kimmel
    af Josep M. Armengol
    453,95 - 725,95 kr.

    By framing Ford's contemporary representations of masculinity within a more general context of American literature, this book reveals how his texts continue along a trajectory of earlier American fiction while they also re-examine masculinity in complex ways.

  • - The Postmodern, Feminist, and Multiethnic Writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Perez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker
    af Pamela B. June
    1.103,95 kr.

    Explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women's novels. This book emphasizes the different and nuanced forms of oppression each woman faces.

  • - From "The Bluest Eye" to "God Help the Child", Revised Edition
    af Linda Wagner-Martin
    619,95 kr.

    A study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work. Beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2012 novel Home, it describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families.

  • af Allen F. Stein
    878,95 kr.

    Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction offers close readings of some thirty stories - Chopin's most significant short works - the majority of which have never received analytical scrutiny. These works, predominantly grim, portray the difficulties women confront as they seek autonomy in a social framework that typically constrains them whether they are married, in the midst of courtship, or seeking to live independently. This groundbreaking book makes it apparent that Chopin's short fiction is no less significant than her famous novel, The Awakening, and that her stories also provide a valuable context for that work.

  • - Comic Morality in the Centaur and the Rabbit Novels
    af Brian Keener
    659,95 kr.

  • - From Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez
    af Fatima Mujcinovic
    699,95 kr.

  • - Balance at the Edge of Belief
    af Jesse Kavadlo
    659,95 kr.

  • af Thaddeus Wakefield
    593,95 kr.

  • - Dramatizing a New American Identity
    af Margaret Booker
    620,95 kr.

    This book critically discusses the works of two seemingly different and unconnected playwrights, Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. By analyzing the black presence in Hellman and its counterpart white presence in Wilson, it exposes interracial boundaries and illuminates the architecture of the new American citizen through the examination of stereotypes, the revelation of sources of ongoing racial tension, and suggested solutions. Their dramas rewrite history to reflect their political activism and espouse a shared value system that demands responsible action, equitable reward, and recognition of women and African Americans as equally valuable citizens of American society.

  • - From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place
    af Jane Hendler
    276,95 kr.

  • - Black Family (dys)function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst
    af Licia Morrow Calloway
    274,95 kr.

  • - from Anne Hutchinson to Toni Morrison
    af Marisa Anne Pagnattaro
    225,95 kr.

  • - Ethics in Modern & Postmodern American Narrative
    af Jeffrey J. Folks
    276,95 kr.

    From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. It intends to insert a reading of ethics into the critical study of fictional and nonfictional narratives by Richard Wright, James Agee, Flannery O¿Connor, Ernest J. Gaines, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and other modern and postmodern American writers.

  • - A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
    af Joan Chiung-Huei Chang
    888,95 kr.