Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0198030118
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0198030118
Author : John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2000-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195351231
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher :
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520224391
Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era, adopting a less insular, more transnational approach to the subject.
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405109246
A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies
Author : James Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674030268
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher :
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2015
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781107448834
"Ichiro Takayoshi's book argues that World War II transformed American literary culture. From the mid-1930s to the American entry into World War II in 1941, pre-eminent figures from Ernest Hemingway to Reinhold Niebuhr responded to the turn of the public's interest from the economic depression at home to the menace of totalitarian systems abroad by producing novels, short stories, plays, poems, and cultural criticism in which they prophesied the coming of a second world war and explored how America could prepare for it. The variety of competing answers offered a rich legacy of idioms, symbols, and standard arguments that were destined to license America's promotion of its values and interests around the world for the rest of the twentieth century. Ambitious in scope and addressing an enormous range of writers, thinkers, and artists, this book is the first to establish the outlines of American culture during this pivotal period"--
Author : Paul Lauter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119685656
This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature
Author : Tim Dayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108593879
In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war effort. A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War explores this fraught cultural moment, teasing out the multiple and intricate relationships between an insurgent Modernism, a still-powerful traditional culture, and a variety of cultural and social forces that interacted with and influenced them. Including genre studies, focused analyses of important wartime movements and groups, and broad historical assessments of the significance of the war as prosecuted by the United States on the world stage, this book presents original essays defining the state of scholarship on the American culture of the First World War.
Author : Giles Gunn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0520098706
“An important and telling critique of the myth and rhetoric of contemporary American expansionism and grand strategy. What is particularly original about these essays—and unusually rare in studies of American foreign policy—is their provocative combination of cultural and literary analysis with a subtle appreciation of the historical transformation of political forms and principles of world order.” Stephen Gill, author of Power and Resistance in the New World Order