Traditions in literature
Author | : James Edwin Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Birden fazla edebiyattan edebi metin koleksiyonları |
ISBN | : 9780673293800 |
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Author | : James Edwin Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Birden fazla edebiyattan edebi metin koleksiyonları |
ISBN | : 9780673293800 |
Author | : Jean M. Lutes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 645 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108805507 |
Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.
Author | : William W. Cook |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226789985 |
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era and on into the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our understanding of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of “classic” writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.
Author | : John Hay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316997421 |
The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.
Author | : William L. Andrews |
Publisher | : Henry Holt |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steven Belletto |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1609381130 |
Authors and artists discussed include: Joseph Conrad, Edwin Denby, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Berbert, Richard Kim, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Alan Nadel, and John Updike,
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108841961 |
This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Author | : Gayl Jones |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674530249 |
The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving usâe"in lively styleâe"both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. âeoeWhen African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,âe writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty.âe The vitality of African American literature derives from its incorporation of traditional oral forms: folktales, riddles, idiom, jazz rhythms, spirituals, and blues. Jones traces the development of this literature as African American writers, celebrating their oral heritage, developed distinctive literary forms. The twentieth century saw a new confidence and deliberateness in African American work: the move from surface use of dialect to articulation of a genuine black voice; the move from blacks portrayed for a white audience to characterization relieved of the need to justify. Innovative writingâe"such as Charles Waddell Chesnuttâe(tm)s depiction of black folk culture, Langston Hughesâe(tm)s poetic use of blues, and Amiri Barakaâe(tm)s recreation of the short story as a jazz pieceâe"redefined Western literary tradition. For Jones, literary technique is never far removed from its social and political implications. She documents how literary form is inherently and intensely national, and shows how the European monopoly on acceptable forms for literary art stifled American writers both black and white. Jones is especially eloquent in describing the dilemma of the African American writers: to write from their roots yet retain a universal voice; to merge the power and fluidity of oral tradition with the structure needed for written presentation. With this work Gayl Jones has added a new dimension to African American literary history.
Author | : A. Robert Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781578066445 |
Table of contents
Author | : Gordon Hutner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195085211 |
American Literature, American Culture is the first comprehensive anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years and the first collection to bring together the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique. This unique anthology assembles reviews of early works, major critical essays, excerpts from landmark studies, and the most influential examples of the criticism practiced today. The selections address the dominant questions in the American literary tradition: What are the cultural responsibilities of the American writer? What are the characteristics of a national literature? Is a national literature even possible? How do gender and race affect the way we understand literature? What role does literature play in a democratic society? Organized chronologically, the four sections of the volume gather the most vital and enduring arguments in American literary and cultural politics in each era, covering such prominent issues as American exceptionalism, the racial divide, gender, and class identity. The book pays particular attention to the historical background of contemporary debates about multiculturalism. American Literature, American Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature, criticism, and American Studies. It also serves as a useful supplementary text in upper-level courses in criticism. Its range proves that at every juncture of the nation's intellectual history, criticism has provided an indispensable way of determining America's most fundamental meanings.