A Road Course In Early American Literature

Author : Thomas Hallock
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320830
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Road Course in Early American Literature written by Thomas Hallock and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature, and how can reading guide us to a deeper understanding of place and identity? Thomas Hallock charts a teacher’s journey to answering these questions, framing personal experiences around the continued need for a survey course covering early American literature up to the mid-nineteenth century. Hallock approaches literary study from the overlapping perspectives of pedagogue, scholar, unrepentant tourist, husband, father, friend, and son. Building on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s premise that there is “creative reading as well as creative writing,” Hallock turns to the vibrant and accessible tradition of American travel writing, employing the form of biblio-memoir to bridge the impasse between public and academic discourse and reintroduce the dynamic field of early American literature to wider audiences. Hallock’s own road course begins and ends at the Lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina, following a circular structure of reflection. He weaves his journey through a wide swath of American literatures and authors: from Native American and African American oral traditions, to Wheatley and Equiano, through Emerson, Poe, and Dickinson, among others. A series of longer, place-oriented narratives explore familiar and lesser-known literary works from the sixteenth-century invasion of Florida through the Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the American Civil War. Shorter chapters bridge the book’s central themes—the mapping of cognitive and physical space, our personal stake in reading, the tensions that follow earlier acts of erasure, and the impossibility of ever fully shutting out the past. Exploring complex cultural histories and contemporary landscapes filled with ghosts and new voices, this volume draws inspiration from a tradition of travel, place-oriented, and literature-based works ranging from William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, Wendy Lesser’s Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books, and Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch. An accompanying bibliographic essay is periodically updated and available at Hallock’s website: www.roadcourse.us.

Author : Anna Lorraine Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early American Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Ventura
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030194701
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society written by Patricia Ventura and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.

Author : Anna Lorraine Guthrie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332972312
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early American Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early American Literature: A Study Outline The last of the Mohicans. In Burton. Literary leaders of America. P. 56-65 (extract Running the gauntlet). Carpenter. American prose selections. P. 153-61 (extract Hawkeye and his friends). The Leather Stocking tales are the prose Iliad and Odyssey of the eighteenth-century pioneer. - Reuben Post Halleck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Literature written by Elaine Showalter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carla Mulford
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195118414
Total Pages : 1129 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early American Writings written by Carla Mulford and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early American Writings brings together a wide range of writings from the era of colonization of the Americas through the period of confederation in North America and the formation of the new United States of America. The anthology includes materials representing cultures indigenous to the Americas as well as writings by British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Swedish, German, African, and African American peoples in America during the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. With more than 170 writers included, the collection represents the works known and admired in the writers' own day, illustrates the diversity of interests and peoples depicted in those writings, and demonstrates the range of cross-cultural references early American readers experienced. The breadth of the collection provides readers with a fuller understanding of the backdrop for what is known as "American" culture today, in all its diversity. Early American Writings includes several original translations and features more poetry than any other anthology in the field. Each section covers a different period of colonization and is introduced by extensive commentary. All selections have been carefully annotated to help students place the writings in their cultural and regional contexts. Ideal for courses in early/colonial American literature and culture, colonial American studies, American studies, and American history, Early American Writings gives students an unprecedented look into the diverse and fascinating culture of early America.

Author : Benjamin Railton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276371
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Hope in American Literature written by Benjamin Railton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, creative writers have often tackled topical subjects as a means to engage and influence public discourse. American authors—those born in the States and those who became naturalized citizens—have consistently found ways to be critical of the more painful pieces of the country’s past yet have done so with the patriotic purpose of strengthening the nation’s community and future. In History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism, Ben Railton argues that it is only through an in-depth engagement with history—especially its darkest and most agonizing elements—that one can come to a genuine form of patriotism that employs constructive criticism as a tool for civic engagement. The author argues that it is through such critical patriotism that one can imagine and move toward a hopeful, shared future for all Americans. Railton highlights twelve works of American literature that focus on troubling periods in American history, including John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath,David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Dave Eggers’s What Is the What. From African and Native American histories to the Depression and the AIDS epidemic, Caribbean and Rwandan refugees and immigrants to global climate change, these works help readers confront, understand, and transcend the most sorrowful histories and issues. In so doing, the authors of these books offer hard-won hope that can help point people in the direction of a more perfect union. History and Hope in American Literature will be of interest to students and practitioners of American literature and history.

Author : Augusta J. Chapin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Survey of American Literature written by Augusta J. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199862060
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through American Literature written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and eclectic literary tradition.

Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of American Literature written by Moses Coit Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: