The Cambridge Companion To The Literature Of Los Angeles

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514703
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
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Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028035
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825402
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.

Author : Efraín Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827057
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel written by Efraín Kristal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.

Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826824
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American literature and culture. They establish parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.

Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701977X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy written by Claire McEachern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521769744
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon written by Inger H. Dalsgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

Author : Efrain Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864240
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa written by Efrain Kristal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.

Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107085209
Total Pages : 339 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature written by Yogita Goyal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.