The New American Novel of Manners

The New American Novel of Manners

Author: Jerome Klinkowitz

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780820339429

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Explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America's modern-day manners in its semiotics.


Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives

Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives

Author: Katie Daily

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-11

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 3319921290

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Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a scope of literary analysis that is wider than what “post-9/11” allows. What emerges is an understanding of the speed at which the rhetoric and aims of many twenty-first century immigration narratives significantly depart from the traditions established post-1900. Daily investigates a recent trend in which novelists and filmmakers question what it means to be an immigrant in contemporary America and explores how these “disaffiliation” narratives challenge some of the most fundamental traditions in American literature and society.


Emily Post

Emily Post

Author: Laura Claridge

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0812967410

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In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.


The Etiquette Book

The Etiquette Book

Author: Jodi R. R. Smith

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 9781402776021

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An ultimate guide to real-world manners by a respected etiquette coach incorporates guidelines that address the unique needs of today's world, including privacy, personal interaction with diverse cultures and using electronic devices during meals.


Dismembering the American Dream

Dismembering the American Dream

Author: Kate Charlton-Jones

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2014-08-30

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0817318259

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"A detailed study of Yates's novels and stories"-- Provided by publisher.


The American

The American

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-02-11

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781543072266

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The American A social comedy about Christopher Newman, an American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.


Lost in the New West

Lost in the New West

Author: Mark Asquith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-10-07

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1501349538

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Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers – John Williams, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx and Thomas McGuane – who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where the distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are frequently blurred. Collectively these authors demonstrate a deep-seated attachment to the landscape, people and values of the West and offer a critical appraisal of the dialogue between the contemporary West and its legacy. Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Border Trilogy, Proulx's Wyoming stories and McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them. They are, in short, lost in the new West.


American Studies

American Studies

Author: Jack Salzman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-05-25

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13: 9780521365598

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This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.


The Guest Book

The Guest Book

Author: Sarah Blake

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1250110254

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Instant New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for Fiction “The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt.” —The Washington Post The thought-provoking new novel by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Blake An exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and legacy of one unforgettable family as they navigate the evolving social and political landscape from Crockett’s Island, their family retreat off the coast of Maine. Blake masterfully lays bare the memories and mistakes each generation makes while coming to terms with what it means to inherit the past.


Islamic Manners

Islamic Manners

Author: 'Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah

Publisher: Claritas Books

Published: 2022-03-13

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0953758273

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Written by one of the outstanding scholars of the 20th Century, Islamic Manners is a vital book that exemplifies the character and personality of every Muslim. Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda (1917-1997) was a leading scholar in the field of hadith. This book discusses essential adab (manners) and covers the following areas: Importance of Appearance Entering and Leaving a House The Manners of Visiting The Manners of Conversation Social Manners Communicating with Non-Muslims The Manners of Eating & Drinking Weddings Visiting a Sick Person Condolences