Book Description
Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.
Author : William Solomon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108429181
Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.
Author : William Solomon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110869229X
This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field provide re-examinations of crucial trends in the decade: the rise of the proletarian novel; the intersection of radical politics and experimental aesthetics; the documentary turn; the rise of left-wing theatres; popular fictional genres; the impact of Marxist thought on African-American historical writing; the relation of modernist prose to mass entertainment. Placing such issues in their political and economic contexts, this Companion constitutes an excellent introduction to a vital area of critical and scholarly inquiry. This collection also functions as a valuable reference guide to Depression-era cultural practice, furnishing readers with a chronology of important historical events in the decade and crucial publication dates, as well as a wide-ranging bibliography for those interested in reading further into the field.
Author : James Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108481086
Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.
Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521514703
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Author : Peter Conn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521516404
A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.
Author : Leslie Howsam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107023734
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494486
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Sarah Ensor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108841902
Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521576802
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.
Author : Scott Donaldson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521455749
A comprehensive introduction to Hemingway and his works.