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Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature

2019-07-04

Von Ladyga Zuzanna Ladyga

Belletristik

Analyses the theme of laziness in twentieth-century American LiteratureUncovers the ethical dimension of the writing of Stein, Hemingway, Barth, Barthelme and Wallace by situating them in the context of the 20th century non-normative ethical and aesthetic tra...

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Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature

2018-08-23

Von Sarah Daw

Literaturkritik

A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy.

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Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture

2016-04-08

Von Stefan Horlacher

Literaturkritik

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the con...

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REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature

2015-12-09

Von Herbert Grabes

Literaturkritik

REAL invites contributions on the relationship between literature and cultural change. The study of culture has to face the difficulty of not being able to observe its object directly. Its only access is via cultural phenomena as observable products of human...

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The Black Indian in American Literature

2013-11-29

Von K. Byars-Nichols

Literaturkritik

The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativity. Moving from the Post-Independence period to the Contemporary era, Byars-Nichols re-centers a marginalize...

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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

2007-10-29

Von T. Walters

Literaturkritik

This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis W...

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Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature

2005

Von Rüdiger Heinze

Literaturkritik

This work links ethics and the formal arrangement of literary texts. It shows that specific formal techniques and devices and the overall form of literary texts always have an ethical dimension and beg certain ethical questions. Covering the three main genres...

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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

2001-02-15

Von William L. Andrews

Literaturkritik

A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-fro...

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

1999-08-01

Von Laurie Rozakis

Literaturkritik

You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you...

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Black American Literature Forum

1990

African American arts

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

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