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Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.
Author : Ralph Thompson
Publisher : New York : The H.W. Wilson Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 1936
Category : American literature
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Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.
Author : Ralph Thompson
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1967
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1967*
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Author : Ralph Thompson
Publisher : Thompson Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443727563
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Lydia G. Fash
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081394399X
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Author : Professor and Department Head of Art & Art History Elizabeth Milroy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300069983
This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays--all written within the past two decades--reflect the interdisciplinary character of current art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subjects--from colonial portraits to nineteenth-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New York--and invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture. Employing many interpretive methodologies, including iconology, social history, structuralism, psychobiography, and feminist theory, the contributors to this volume combine close analysis of specific art objects or groups of objects with discussion of how these works of art operated within their cultural contexts. The authors consider the works of such artists as John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock as they assess how paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs have carried meaning within American society. And they investigate how the conceptualization, production, and presentation of works of art both inform and are informed by prevailing attitudes toward the role of the arts and the artist in American culture.
Author : Sarah Wadsworth
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781558495418
Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838636398
Imitation as Resistance also offers American perspectives on the individual reputations of a number of British writers and their specific works, often down to the particular lines in plays and poems. The reader whose interest is limited, for example, to the singular reputation of a Dickens novel or a Byron poem may find the book functional for its broad bibliographical qualities. For cultural studies students, Americanists, and others, the book will demonstrate the complexity of cultural appropriation and the patterns of nineteenth-century American resistance and harmonization.
Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1317471806
The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement - whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas - has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed. This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. "The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition" provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, maps, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and specialized indexes in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107009979
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