The Literature Of The American People

Author : Peter Conn
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521303736
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature in America written by Peter Conn and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-08-25 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Conn summarises the distinctive achievements of the American literary heritage from early 1600's to late 1980's.

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 : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher : Irvington Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780891972792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the American People written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by Irvington Publishers. This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Arthur H. Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829024647
Total Pages : 1177 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of the American People written by Arthur H. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Biman Basu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916743X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commerce of Peoples written by Biman Basu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on. But in the population at large and in the academic community, too, it is still persistently stigmatized. This marginalization, along with its ambivalently persecuted status, is a result, significantly, of a nineteenth century legacy. This legacy begins with Kraftt-Ebing's designation of sadomasochism, along with gay and lesbian desire, as a perversion, and continues in the popular and expert (mis)understandings which prevail. More generally, most people today will recognize that all human relations are power relations. Yet most people will also deny this and mask these power relations by invoking all sorts of things, like romantic love, sentimental attachment, companionate marriage, friendship, peace, non-violence, harmony, and the list goes on, ad nauseam. Not that these do not exist in a sadomasochistic relation, but sadomasochists are unflinching in their recognition that all of these are also permeated by power relations. It is not only impossible to purge these relations of power but for sadomasochists it is also undesirable to do so. It is not only more honest to acknowledge the power that saturates these relations but also more instructive in the sense that S&M provides a context in which one learns to exercise power and to submit to it in a responsible way. Even in scholarly critical and theoretical discussions of S&M, the prevailing opinion is that the power exercised in sadomasochism is not "real." It is of course not real in the sense that slavery and violence no longer has a legal status. But reality cannot of course be gauged or even approximated by its legal status alone. For most practitioners, it is hard to deny the reality of pain, of humiliation, of degradation, in the moment of its enactment. One can hardly deny the reality of bringing the whip down on someone's back or of having it sear across one's buttocks.

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 : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher : New York, Crofts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the American People written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by New York, Crofts. This book was released on 1951 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Sullivan
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810982215
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Promise written by Charles Sullivan and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 100 specially chosen poems, songs, and text excerpts vividly evoke the African-American experience for young readers.

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578066445
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multicultural American Literature written by A. Robert Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents