Readings from English and American Literature
Author: Walter Taylor Field
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 632
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Author: Walter Taylor Field
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Salaita
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-12-25
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0230603378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKN.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.
Author: Roy Bennett Pace
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred J. Mac Adam
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780226499901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the Western tradition. Mac Adam describes the changes that have taken place in Latin American literature since the time of Modernismo (roughly 1880-1920), when Spanish American writers tried to update their literary language by imitating foreign, mostly French, literature. Since then, as he demonstrates, Latin American writing has achieved a pioneering status by means of a different kind of imitation—parody—whereby it gives back to the former centers of Western culture their own writing, now distorted and reshaped into something new.
Author: Venetria Patton
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2014-05-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781457676376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith chapters that address literary and social movements, questions of identity, the geopolitical aspects of American literature, and classroom approaches, Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature, Second Edition, provides an overview of changes in the field of American literary studies and a survey of its popular themes. The twenty-seven readings include important scholarship, critical essays, and practical ideas from working teachers. This professional resource offers support to instructors using The Bedford Anthology of American Literature.
Author: Fred Lewis Pattee
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Myra Jehlen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0226396010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyra Jehlen's aim in these essays is to read for what she calls the edge of literature: the point at which writing seems unable to say more, which is also, for Jehlen, the threshold of the real. It is here, she argues, that the central paradoxes of the American project become clear—self-reliance and responsibility, universal equality and the pursuit of empire, writing from the heart and representing shared values and ideas. Developing these paradoxes to their utmost tension, American writers often produce penetrating critiques of American society without puncturing its basic myths. For instance, Mark Twain's Puddn'head Wilson begins as a slashing satire of racism, only to conclude by demonstrating that even an invisible portion of black blood can make a man a murderer. Throughout these essays Jehlen demonstrates the crucial role that the process of writing itself plays in unfolding these paradoxes, whether in the form of novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Virginia Woolf; the histories of Captain John Smith; or even a work of architecture, such as the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
Author: Fred Lewis Pattee
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Emma Simons
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy Bennett Pace
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Published: 2015-07-13
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781331337737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Readings in American Literature This volume is designed to accompany the editor's American Literature, and the selections were made to represent the authors there treated. While it is intended that the history and the Readings be used together, the latter have been compiled in accordance with suggestions from many sources; and the editor believes that they will prove useful with any history of American literature. No effort has been made to include college entrance requirements, most of which are available in cheap and attractive editions. On the other hand, more space than is usual in a book of this kind is given to literature produced before 1800. This has been done because the material is quaint and interesting, and is less accessible to high school students than nineteenth century writings. The editor feels confident that results will repay a generous expenditure of time on the early writers. In preparing the Readings, the best texts accessible have been used; but it has not seemed necessary in a high school book to indicate the editions, unless required by the copyright provisions of the authorized publishers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.