Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 16,33 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 : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825402
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521894654
The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
Author : Efraín Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521825334
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110701977X
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521858887
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521769744
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Author : Efrain Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521864240
Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107028035
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521646802
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
