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A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Author : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521514711
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 29,77 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 : William Solomon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 10,37 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 : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110743467X
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.
Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107095174
This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521673686
This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.
Author : Stacey Olster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982743X
John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It traces the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.
Author : Ezra Tawil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107048761
This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139828185
Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it is truly hybrid and experimental in its techniques. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars who reflect on their own experiences in Performance Studies and the possibilities this offers to representations of identity, self-and-other, and communities. Theories which have been absorbed into the field are applied to compelling topics in current academic, artistic and community settings. The collection is designed to reflect the diversity of outlooks and provide a guide for students as well as scholars seeking a perspective on research trends.
Author : Joy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521822831
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.