Deafening Modernism. Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature, Paperback - Rebecca Sanchez

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Rebecca SanchezIllustration(s): 2 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Collection: Cultu...

Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman examines ways ...

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The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly...

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the th...

After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of Africa...

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'Late modernist poetics' explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Contextually and theoretic...

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This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Norman W. (Ohio State University, USA) JonesNumber of pages: 170Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 2...

This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major ...

In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Va...

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Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. Queering...

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Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the pres...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Maria (University of Sussex, UK) LauretNumber of pages: 344Collection: New Horizons in Contemporary ...

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The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our rele...

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2013 Winner of the Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second...

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DescriptionPoetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on a...

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As authors and publishers, individuals and collectives, women significantly shaped the modernist movement. The essays in this volume explore formal...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew BallNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions in Religion and LiteraturePublication date...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have...

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