Two Views of Man in American Literature
Author: Maxwell Reader
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 468
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Author: Maxwell Reader
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781564781635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post
Author: William J. Long
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13: 3387311095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Vidya Ravi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 149858733X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican literature has long celebrated the figure of the self-made man and the idea of establishing selfhood, particularly male selfhood, in nature. However, during the crisis of masculinity that swept across America in the middle of the twentieth century, a generation of writers started exploring a different kind of a man. This was a figure who was concerned not so much with the loss of the West or the desire to recover a wilderness, but with how to live in an ordinary, domesticated continent. Masculinity and Place in American Literature since 1950 explores the role of place in negotiating, reinforcing, and subverting articulations of hegemonic masculinity in the work of four American writers from the latter part of the 20th century—John Cheever, John Updike, Raymond Carver, and Richard Ford. The book argues that American fiction by white male writers between the 1950s and the present day is compelled by the troubled and troubling relationship between masculinity and place. This relationship is deeply embedded in how ideals of masculinity are predicated upon the experience of the physical world, and how the symbolic logic of masculinity is continually subverted by alternative conceptions of dwelling and ecological consciousness.
Author: Peter Gibian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-30
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1139429175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America's 'Age of Conversation'. He was both a model and an analyst of the dynamic conversational form, which became central to many areas of mid-nineteenth-century life. Holmes' multivoiced writings can serve as a key to open up the closed interiors of Victorian America, whether in saloons or salons, parlours or clubs, hotels or boarding-houses, schoolrooms or doctors' offices. Combining social, intellectual, medical, legal and literary history with close textual analysis, and setting Holmes in dialogue with Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Fuller, Alcott and finally with his son, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, Gibian radically redefines the context for our understanding of the major literary works of the American Renaissance.
Author: Linden Peach
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-07-08
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1349167983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William J. Long
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 499
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Outlines of English and American Literature" (An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived) by William J. Long. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Saul Levmore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0199331383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Guy examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to the intersection of American gender, legal, and literary issues. The collection opens with a set of papers investigating "American Guys" -- the heroic nonconformists and rugged individualists that populate much of American fiction. Diverse essays examine the manly men of Hemingway, Dreiser, and others, in their relation to the law, while also highlighting the underlying tensions that complicate this version of masculinity. A second set of papers examines "Outsiders" -- men on the periphery of the American Guys who proclaim a different way of being male. These essays take up counter-traditions of masculinity ranging from gay male culture to Philip Roth's portrait of the Jewish lawyer. American Guy, a follow-up to Subversion and Sympathy, edited by Alison L. LaCroix and Martha Nussbaum, aims at reinvigorating the law-and-literature movement through original, cross-disciplinary insights. It embraces a variety of voices from both within and outside the academy, including several contributions from prominent judges. These contributions are particularly significant, not only as features unique to the field, but also for the light they throw on the federal bench. In the face of a large body of work studying judicial conduct as a function of rigid commitment to ideology, American Guy shows a side of the judiciary that is imaginatively engaged, aware of cultural trends, and reflective about the wider world and the role of the of law in it.
Author: Paul Douglass
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0813161630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil now, Bergson's widely acknowledged impact on American literature has never been comprehensively mapped. Author Paul Douglass explains and evaluates Bergson's meaning for American writers, beginning with Eliot and moving through Ransom, Penn Warren, and Tate to Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, and others. It will be a standard point of reference. Bergson was the continental philosopher of the early 1900s, a celebrity, as Sartre would later be. Profoundly influential throughout Europe, and widely discussed in England and America in the Teens, Twenties, and Thirties, Bergson is now rarely read. His current "obsolescence," Douglass argues, illuminates the Western shift from Modern to post- Modern. Ambitious in scope, this book remains admirably close to Bergson himself: what he said, where that fits in the historical context of philosophy, why his ideas moved across the Atlantic, and how he affected American writers. At the book's heart are readings of Eliot's criticism and poetry, analyses of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Light in August, and evaluations of Ransom's, Tate's and Penn Warren's criticism. This impressively researched and beautifully written study will remain of lasting value to students of American literature.
Author: Evert Augustus Duyckinck
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 1116
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