The Small Twon in American Literature..
Author | : Ima Honaker Herron |
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Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Ima Honaker Herron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Albert Alan Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
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Author | : Granville Hicks |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780823223572 |
Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views. In this book, he combines a kind of hand-crafted ethnographic research with personal reflections on the qualities of small town life that were being threatened by spreading cities and suburbs. He eloquently tried to define the essential qualities of small town community life and to link them to the best features of American culture. The book sparked numerous articles and debates in a baby-boom America nervously on the move. Long out of print, this classic of cultural criticism speaks powerfully to a new generation seeking to reconnect with a sense of place in American life, both rural and urban. An unaffected, deeply felt portrait of one such place by one of the best American critics, it should find a new home as a vivid reminder of what we have lost-and what we might still be able to protect.
Author | : Mark Ethan Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Ryan Poll |
Publisher | : American Literatures Initiativ |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813552897 |
"The small town has become a national icon that circulates widely in literature, culture, and politics as an authentic American space and community. Yet there are surprisingly few critical studies that analyze the small town's centrality to the United States' identity and imagination. In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll addresses this need, arguing that the small town, as evoked by the image of "Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which America's "everyday" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global scale. Bringing together a broad selection of texts--from Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show to the speeches of William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama--Poll examines how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century. He contends that the dominant small town, despite its innocent, nostalgic appearance, is central to the development of the U.S. empire and global capitalism." --Publisher description.
Author | : Richard R. Lingeman |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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"The history of America is the history of its small towns. For better or worse, small town values, convictions, and attitudes have shaped the psyche of this nation...[This book] chronicles the rise and fall of small towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific and interweaves the story of their development with the main strands of American history..."--inside flap.
Author | : Diana Rodriguez Wallach |
Publisher | : Underlined |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593427521 |
The Conjuring meets The Vow! This is the terrifying story of a girl, a dark angel, and the cult hellbent on taking over her small, coastal town. Vera Martinez wants nothing more than to escape Roaring Creek and her parents' reputation as demonologists. Not to mention she's the family outcast, lacking her parents' innate abilities, and is terrified of the occult things lurking in their basement. Maxwell Oliver is supposed to be enjoying the summer before his senior year, spending his days thinking about parties and friends. Instead he's taking care of his little sister while his mom slowly becomes someone he doesn't recognize. Soon he suspects that what he thought was grief over his father's death might be something more...sinister. When Maxwell and Vera join forces, they come face to face with deeply disturbing true stories of cults, death worship, and the very nature that drives people to evil. Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.
Author | : Ima Herron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780781265720 |
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Author | : Chuy Renteria |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609388062 |
Most agree that West Liberty is a special place. The first majority Hispanic town in Iowa, it has been covered by media giants such as Reuters, Telemundo, NBC, and ESPN. But Chuy Renteria and his friends grew up in the space between these news stories, where a more complicated West Liberty awaits. We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic. Renteria looks past the public celebrations of diversity to dive into the private tensions of a community reflecting the changing American landscape. There are culture clashes, breakdancing battles, fistfights, quinceañeras, vandalism, adventures on bicycles, and souped-up lowriders, all set to an early 2000s soundtrack. Renteria and his friends struggle to find their identities and reckon with intergenerational trauma and racism in a town trying to do the same. A humorous and poignant reflection on coming of age, We Heard It When We Were Young puts its finger on a particular cultural moment at the turn of the millennium.