American Literature Review

Author : Elizabeth Kantor
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596980117
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politically Incorrect Guide to English And American Literature written by Elizabeth Kantor and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today's schools, a "politically incorrect" primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of such core masters as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen, in a volume that is complemented by a syllabus and a self-study guide. Original.

Author : Laurie E. Rozakis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028633787
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature written by Laurie E. Rozakis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at American authors from Washington Irving to John Updike and provides brief biographical sketches, excerpts and summaries of major works, and explanations of major literary movements

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : AMS Press
ISBN 13 : 9780404646325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources for American Literary Study written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clothbound annual that includes book reviews.

Author : Claire Jimenez
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421434156
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staten Island Stories written by Claire Jimenez and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.

Author : Dan Sinykin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192594265
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Literature and the Long Downturn written by Dan Sinykin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now? What does it mean? This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'. The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse—horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it; claustrophobia within the limited scripts of neoliberalism; suffocation under the weight of debt—together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century. For many of us, for different reasons, it feels like the end is coming soon and this book explores how we came to this, and what it has meant for literature.

Author : Chad Bennett
Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 1946448494
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era written by Chad Bennett and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Temple tap dancing at the Kiwanis Club, Stevie Nicks glaring at Lindsey Buckingham during a live version of “Silver Springs,” Frank Ocean lyrics staking new territory on the page: this is a taste of the cultural landscape sampled in Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era. Chad Bennett casually combines icons of the way we live now—GIFs, smartphones, YouTube—with a classical lover’s lament. The result is certainly a deeply personal account of loss, but more critically, a dismantling of an American history of queerness. “This is our sorrow. Once it seemed theirs, but now it’s ours. They still inhabit it, yet we say it’s ours.” All at once cerebral, physical, personal, and communal, Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era constructs a future worth celebrating.

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1793 written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colleen G. Boggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135985901
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnationalism and American Literature written by Colleen G. Boggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature? This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has become transnational only recently – that there is such a thing as an "era" of transnationalism – marks a blindness to the intrinsic transatlanticism of American literature.

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 : Wai Chee Dimock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829526
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Other Continents written by Wai Chee Dimock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context.