In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are «important – and they’re dangerous – because we’re the keepers of the dreams.» The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics,...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2013-11-04
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Continued Growth lautet das Lebensprinzip Margaret Fullers. Der Nachweis der konsequenten Orientierung Fullers an diesem philosophischen Konzept wird in diesem Buch erstmals durchgängig und in vollem Umfang erbracht. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz vereint im Rahmen einer...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-04
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Conventional understandings of the family in nineteenth-century literary studies depict a venerated institution rooted in sentiment, sympathy, and intimacy. American Blood upends this notion, showing how novels of the period frequently emphasize the darker sides of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-10-04
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Gwendolyn MacEwen war eine Kultfigur der Literaturszene Torontos der 1960er/1970er Jahre. Als exotisch und extravagant findet man sie und ihr Werk in diesem Zusammenhang beschrieben, als «Queen of Canadian Poetry» wird sie von Zeitgenossen bezeichnet. Heute ist...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-09-16
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A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition.  The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world  The most...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-09-10
Collection : Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture PDF, ePub

This collection brings together twelve essays that tackle the nexus between gender, literature, and the visual arts. While it provides a philosophical and theoretical background for some of the factors that shape female creativity, it also considers the contributions of...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-08-13
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A tide of newfound prosperity swept through America as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Modernity had arrived. Yet amid this climate of progress, concerns over the perils of modernity and civilization began to creep into the national consciousness....

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-08-01
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The volume is an attempt to read William Faulkner’sThe Sound and the Fury while bearing in mind three phenomenological philosophies of death as proposed by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas.The literary analysis mainly reveals how Benjy senses...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-07-10
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-07-10
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Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-07-01
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American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots. But, as Paul Grimstad shows, the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit of earlier experiments inAmerican literature. Ralph Waldo...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-06-26
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Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-06-03
Collection : Reading the Novel PDF, ePub

Modern Ekphrasis explores the analogical relations between modern poetry and painting in ekphrasis from Horace’s mimetic «ut pictura poesis» tradition to Lessing’s temporal/spatial antithesis, and the analogy’s post-modern deconstruction with Derrida. The genesis of...

Editeur : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution : 2013-06-03
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Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poet’s early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary’s Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowell’s early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowell’s early poetry...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2013-05-29
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Although studies on Stephen King (1947–) traditionally belong to the field of popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and «Secret Window, Secret Garden,» give an insightful perspective on...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2013-05-29
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The body remains the most visibly gendered social and cultural construction. Not only does it classify individuals into two different sexes from the very start of their lives, but some of the most obvious social divisions – such as race and nationality, age and physical...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2013-05-29
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Assuming the role of the African American griotte of her generation, Gloria Naylor seeks to recover and remember the eroded history of female archetypes in order to overcome the pain that a patriarchal, misogynist society has caused for Black women. Through revisiting...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-05-08
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Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-22
Collection : Themes in History PDF, ePub

Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Cultural History of Literature PDF, ePub

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age.  A refreshing and accessible investigation...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-04-10
Collection : Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos PDF, ePub