American Literary Readings
Author: Leonidas Warren Payne
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 807
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Author: Leonidas Warren Payne
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 807
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James L. Machor
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0801899338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
Author: Leonidas Warren Payne (jr., [from old catalog])
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Published: 1918
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jada Ach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-12-14
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1793622027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, prompting us to reconsider new, provocative modes of human/nonhuman engagement in arid ecogeographies.
Author: Leonidas Warren Payne
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Denis Donoghue
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520064249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a selection by the distinguished critic of his essays and commentaries on American writing and writers, from Emerson and Whitman through Auden and Ashbery. Denis Donoghue examines the canon in the light of what he takes to be the central dynamic of the American enterprise--the imperatives of a powerful national past versus the subversions of an irrevocably anarchic spirit.
Author: Fred Lewis Pattee
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1002
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 604
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