Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, La...

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

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

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figu...

Reducere. 1. War Ensemble (4: 52) 2. Blood Red (2: 50) 3. Spirit In Black (4: 07) 4. Expendable Youth (4: 10) 5. Dead Skin Mask (5: 17) 6. Hallowed Point (3:...

Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - Ioana Baciu

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

Reducere. Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - este o carte care se adreseaza unui public divers: studenti ai literaturii americane, profesori, cercet...

Reducere. Din cuprins: Dramatic Elements and Literary MeditationEmerson and KantInward versus Outward ExpansionDissenting Voices of ConsentThe Narrator as Au...

DescriptionCastration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding hare...

Well written and interesting stories about myths in the Philippines and how they compare to myths elsewhere. For the curious as to why such fantast...

Reducere. Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races, " c...

For fans of Slay in Your Lane and Little Black Book, this no-nonsense exploration of colour and culture at work is essential reading for Black wome...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

Literature Into Film Film Into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film - Ileana Jitareu Chiru

After a period of neglect, the idealist and romantic philosophies that emerged in the wake of Kant's revolutionary writings have once more become i...

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

DescriptionHow do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, betwee...

Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male perspective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which ...

In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a...

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as B...

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the ...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique plac...

Reducere. Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue pre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack LondonIllustrated in this edition by more than thirty of Jack London's own photographs, 'The People of the Abyss' docu...

Reducere. Understanding how communication works in society is a crucial part of social psychology; this groundbreaking work by Ruesch and Bateson explains th...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism, highlighting the contributions a...

A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity, drawing on data from Slavic languages. Sipka addresses issues of interes...