Allegories of America
Author: Frederick M. Dolan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1501726234
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Allegories of Encounter
Author: Andrew Newman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1469643464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.
Allegory in America
Author: D. Madsen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1995-12-18
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0230379931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAllegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
Author: Cindy Weinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-01-27
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521470544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the debates about symbol and allegory, and Cindy Weinstein contends that allegory during this period was critiqued on precisely the same grounds as mechanized labor. In the course of completing a historical investigation, Weinstein revolutionizes the notion of allegorical narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater depth and consequence than has previously been implied.
Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory
Author: J. Elliott
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-06-09
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0230612806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.
Bodies and Maps
Author: Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9004438033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Allegories of Cinema
Author: David E. James
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780691047553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses avant garde films produced during the sixties, and considers the work of Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol
Black Space
Author: Adilifu Nama
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0292778767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2008 Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness. Setting his study against the backdrop of America's ongoing racial struggles and complex socioeconomic histories, Adilifu Nama pursues a number of themes in Black Space. They include the structured absence/token presence of blacks in SF film; racial contamination and racial paranoia; the traumatized black body as the ultimate signifier of difference, alienness, and "otherness"; the use of class and economic issues to subsume race as an issue; the racially subversive pleasures and allegories encoded in some mainstream SF films; and the ways in which independent and extra-filmic productions are subverting the SF genre of Hollywood filmmaking. The first book-length study of African American representation in science fiction film, Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined.
Blasted Allegories
Author: Brian Wallis
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 1989-01
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780262730860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlasted Allegories makes available the best and most representative examples of artists' writings from the past ten years, an era marked by such pluralism and eclecticism that the voice of the artist may be the clearest one to listen to. The writings, which included both criticism and fiction, have been selected both for their intrinsic, quality and their usefulness; to an understanding of contemporary art. Among the artists represented are Laurie Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Spalding Gray, Theresa Hak Kyng Cha, Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, Martha Roster, Allan Sekula, and William Wegman. Brian Wallis an editor at Art in America. A publication of The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Distributed by The MIT Press
The Owner of the House
Author: Louis Simpson
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781929918393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual's maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover's quarrel with the world. "Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."--Seamus Heaney Educated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University, Louis Simpson has taught widely, most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
