Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 35,75 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 : Sarah Ensor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,55 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 : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,47 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 : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 10,4 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 : Scott Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316298981
This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.
Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 23,51 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 : Shamoon Zamir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828134
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.
Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 28,12 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 : Jesper Gulddal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108605354
Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
Author : Michele Elam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316240096
This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the 'post-race' transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assume new urgency.
