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Author: Travis M. Foster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108841929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.
Author: David Hillman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107048095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-05-16
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1009204173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight Black embodiment through conceptual flashpoints that emphasize various aspects of human body in its visual and textual manifestations. This Companion engages past and continuing debates about the nature of embodiment by showcasing how writers from multiple eras and communities defined and challenged the limits of what constitutes a body in relation to human and nonhuman environment.
Author: Stephen Shapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1316513009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Author: Joshua Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1108838278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
Author: Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521796996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
Author: Joy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-07-21
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521822831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-29
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1107494486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author: Deirdre Osborne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-19
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1107139244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Post-World War II mass migration to Great Britain altered its demographic composition more markedly than in any other period in its history, resulting in a modern multicultural nation state shaped by the ethnic diversity of its citizenry. Populations from African, Caribbean, and South Asian locations arriving in Britain post-war brought diasporic sensibilities and literary heritages that have profoundly transformed British national culture, leading to a more complex and inclusive sense of its past. The Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) examines the creative impact of this rich infusion upon English literature against the backdrop of the seismic social and economic changes triggered by colonialism and migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary globalization"--
Author: Stacey Olster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-04-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 113982743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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.
