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  • - Search for Foundations in American Criticism
    af Paul Jay
    188,95 kr.

    Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.

  • - Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s
    af Jonathan Veitch
    523,95 kr.

    This study of ""apocalyptic writer"" Nathanael West examines his body of work, exploring his distinctive method of negation. Locating him in an American avant-garde tradition, the author considers the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism as modes of social criticism.

  • - Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters
    af Ihab Hassan
    243,95 kr.

    An analysis of quests in contemporary American letters, fiction and non-fiction and about contemporary reality. The book explores general issues about quest, reviews work in fiction and non-fiction that define and develop the idea of quest.