Author : M. Bostrom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230607489
This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.
Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110587645
The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
Author : Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137496266
In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.
Author : S. Halldorson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2007-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230609783
This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."
Author : A. Graham-Bertolini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230339301
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
Author : Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474423957
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
Author : A. Cox
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 023031659X
The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.
Author : M. Gauthier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230337821
This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka.
Author : A. Strong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230611273
Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life, through attention to skin color, performance of racial identity, and experimentation and immersion in tribal life and rituals. This study imagines what Hemingway s fiction would look like if his non-white characters were brought out of the background and asks how Hemingway s conception of American identity transforms when it is constructed on the basis of race.
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 143812743X
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