Author : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107013135
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521196310
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107085209
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107095379
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827847
Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828118
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826840
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical fiction. Chapters examine works by Ralph Ellison, Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and many others. They reflect a range of critical methods intended to prompt new and experienced readers to consider the African American novel as a cultural and literary act of extraordinary significance. This volume, including a chronology and guide to further reading, is an important resource for students and teachers alike.
Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107083958
This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.
Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110889609X
The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.
Author : Eric Carl Link
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107052467
This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
