Greenwood Press, 2002. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-031331-1949. Обширная монография - исследование об темах американской новеллы на основе широкого исторического и литературного материала. С обширным научным аппаратом. This unique resource provides readers with a systematic guide to the central themes in 150 of the most commonly taught American novels. Each of the 50 well written...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 261 p. Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. Dohra Ahmad adds to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this...
Plymouth UK: Lexington Books, 2010. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7391-3923-3. Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s.
McFarland, 2017. — 228 p. — ASIN B073KQFDRP, ISBN: 1476668345. Stephen King, "America's Favorite Boogeyman," has sold over 350 million copies of his books, becoming in effect the face of horror fiction. His influence on popular culture has drawn both strong praise and harsh criticism from reviewers and scholars alike. While his popularity cannot be overstated, his work has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 214 p. Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life on the page. With few exceptions, the novels studied here are lesser-known works, with little written about them to date. Mining these tremendous...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 208 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano. Heterotextual poetics reveals how a poetry of the cross can influence identity, in readings ranging from the poetry of gender and race by...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 76 p. — ISBN10: 1137375744; ISBN13: 978-1137375742. Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. The...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 71 p. — ISBN10: 1137301317; ISBN13: 978-1137301314. By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing,...
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. — 1664 p. Teachers have struggled for years to balance the competing demands of American Literature and AP English Language. Now, the team that brought you the bestselling Language of Composition is here to help. Conversations in American Literature: Language, Rhetoric, Culture is a new kind of American Literature anthology―putting nonfiction on...
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. — 238 p. In the best literary tradition, Bernard Malamud uses the particular experiences of his subjects-Eastern European Jews, immigrant Americans, and urban African Americans-to express the universal. This book offers an exploration of this beloved American writer's fiction, which has won two National Book Awards and a...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 232 p.
"Beach's criticism is not only level-headed but astute.The result: a reading lesson that telescopes a major trend in postwar poetry. Even after reading Christopher Beach's The Cambridge Introductin to Twentieth-Century American Poetry we may not know precisely why the deer and the dachshund are one. But we will have received what may...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 1864 p. A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 1864 p. A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 257 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful...
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2003. — 136 pp. — (Language: English).
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics — the ways these...
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. — ISBN10: 0826358969; ISBN13: 978-0826358967 — (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics) The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just...
New York: Dover Publications, 1964. — 244 p. This volume contains 24 of Bierce's best tales of the unknown. Morbid, cynical, eerie, they take you to a twilight region of flesh and spirit—and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. These are unusual constructions of terror and grim irony, reminiscent of Poe, the Gothic novel, and the Romantic short story, but having the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 219 p. — ISBN10: 0230608361; ISBN13: 978-0230608368. This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman,...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-0300190595. Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful recounting of...
Blooms Literary Criticism, 2011. - 243 p.
A tradition of poets that includes Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop has a palpable distinction, but it may be too soon to speak or write of a canon of American women poets. The poets studied in this volume are not chosen arbitrarily, yet consideration of the book’s length as well as the poets’ canonical probability...
New York: Blooms Literary Criticism, 2009. — (Bloom's Literary Themes) — ISBN10: 079109801X; ISBN13: 978-0791098011. 'The American Dream' discusses the role of this theme in works of literature such as 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'Death of a Salesman', 'The Great Gatsby', 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and many others. 20 essays and reprinted articles give context and...
Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. — 155 p. — (Bloom's Major Poets) — ISBN-10 0791078906; ISBN-13 978-0791078907. Introduction Biography of Marianne Moore Critical Analysis of “The Steeple-Jack” Critical Views on “The Steeple-Jack” A. Kingsley Weatherhead on Perspective Bonnie Costello on the Influence of Durer John M. Slatin on the Effect of Hawthorne Bernard F....
Chelsea House Publications, 2003. — 120 pp.
The myth of E.E. Cummings stressed isolation, the difficulty of love, and the realities of death. This volume includes extracts from critical essays that examine important themes in Cummings' poetry. Studied works include "All in green went my love riding, " "Memorabilia, " "i sing of Olaf glad and big, " "somewhere i have never...
A course in American literature for the advanced study of English. bk. 1 — Washington, D.C. : English Teaching Division, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency, 1995. — 292 p.
Intended for high-intermediate/advanced level students of English as a foreign language, this book contains selections from the wide range of American literature, from its beginnings...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1137379871; ISBN13: 978-1137379870. Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century. Can...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 — 273 p. — ISBN10: 1137488387; ISBN13: 978-1137488381. A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and...
American Conservatory Theater, 2004. — 55 p. Characters, cast, synopsis of, and preface to The Time Of Your Life. Biography of William Saroyan. Writer to Writer: Selections from Saroyan’s Letters. A Quarter for His Thoughts: Saroyan Memorabilia. Rulebook for Saroyanesques. An Interview with Director Tina Landau. Questions to consider. For further information...(books, websites,...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. — 172 p. In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray,...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 331 p. John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic humor in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and American writings, and to offer a definitive account of the comic as the...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 265 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s. This study records conversations both explicit, such as essays...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 525 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture). This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing...
Continium, 2003. — 100 p. — ISBN: 0-8264-1477-X. The Novelist The Novel The Novel's Reception. The Novel Performance. Futher Reading and Discussion Questions Appendix : The Chronology of Infinite Jest.
Routledge, 2022. — 459 p. The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration...
The unauthorized guide to the mystery behind the Da Vinci Code Sequel. - New York: Squibnocket Partners LLC, 2009. - 234 p. The book follows the same format as the earlier books in the Secrets series, Secrets of the Code, Secrets of Angels & Demons, and Secrets of Mary Magdalene. It is a comprehensive reader's guide to a fascinating and complex novel 'The Lost Symbol'. Once...
New York: McFarland & Co, 2017. — 287 p. Dark Arcadia attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary accounts and various received truths, Gavin Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted...
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1906. — 204 p. My first acquaintance with Whitman’s writings (William Rossetti’s edition of the Poems) was made at Cambridge during the Long Vacation in the summer of 1868 — or it may have been’69. But it was not till 1877 that I crossed the Atlantic and paid my first visit to him. In 1884 I was again in the States, and saw Whitman several...
University Press of Mississippi, 1990. — 342 p. This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 — 504 p. — ISBN10: 1118647092; ISBN13: 978-1118647097. Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, "A Companion to T.S. Eliot" introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 290 p. Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced...
Tuscon, AZ: Schaffner Press, 2011. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 1936182270; ISBN13: 978-1936182275 From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of cultural icon Ken Kesey from the 1960s through the 1980s. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 262 p. Best known for his masterpiece 'Infinite Jest', David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace's desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and restorative function of literature resulted in works that appeal as much to a...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 350 p. This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this...
Gale Cengage, 2010. — 365 pp.
Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians - experts who have helped to define the...
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. — 371 p. — ISBN: 0-691-04983-1. Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize...
Liverpool University Press, 1999. — viii, 254 p. — (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies). — ISBN: 0-85323-614-3, 0-85323-624-0. In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF,...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 313 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 248 p. — ISBN 978-0521-60399-7.
Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007. — 155 p.
Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life – including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda – continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his image as the poet laureate of the 1920s, he was first and foremost a great...
University of Georgia Press, 2018. — 370 p. — ISBN 978-082-0352008 Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan, 2011. — 344 p. — ISBN10: 0819569585; ISBN13: 978-0819569585. This new book by eminent scholar Michael Davidson gathers his essays concerning formally innovative poetry from modernists such as Mina Loy, George Oppen, and Wallace Stevens to current practitioners such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Robertson, and Mark Nowak. The book...
Harvard University Press. 2002. — 308 p. — ISBN: 0674006488, 0674015940 "The Language of War" examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical...
Greenwood Press, 2000. — 584 p. John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well. In addition to his best-selling novels, he has written numerous poems, short stories, reviews, and essays. His writing consistently reveals stylistic brilliance, and through his engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems,...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 384 p. Preface page The American historical romance: a prospectus The Waverley-model and the rise of historical romance Historical romance and the stadialist model of progress The regionalism of historical romance Hawthorne and the ironies of New England history Melville: the red comets return The hero and heroine of historical romance The...
Cambridg: Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 384 p. Preface page. The American historical romance: a prospectus. The Waverley-model and the rise of historical romance. Historical romance and the stadialist model of progress. The regionalism of historical romance. Hawthorne and the ironies of New England history. Melville: the red comets return. The hero and heroine of...
Praeger, 2004. — 172 p.
The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms. While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which is generally approached synchronically, reading...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 225 p. From Allen Ginsberg's 'angel-headed hipsters' to angelic outlaws in Essex Hemphill's Conditions, angelic imagery is pervasive in queer American art and culture. This book examines how the period after 1945 expanded a unique mixture of sacred and profane angelic imagery in American literature and culture to fashion queer characters, primarily...
New Jersey: Princeton University Press,. 1993. —ISBN: 0-691-06975-1 Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia dedicated to her...
The University of Wisсonsin Press, 2013. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0299295109 Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey said he was too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie. It’s All a Kind of Magic is the first biography of Kesey. It reveals a youthful life of...
Xlibris Corp, 2005. — 319 p. — ISBN: 1-4134-8446-8. Opening Episod. Subsidized Time Scenes & Settings Keys to Narrative Structure Compendium of Major Characters The Plot of Infinite Jest : a Precis Key Themes and Narratives Techniques Minor Cnaracter & Real People Infinite Jest s Acronyms Slang & Idioms
University of Illinois Press, 2020. — 378 p. Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age―by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative...
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 353 p. Acknowledgments Introduction A Place in the Sun Loomings Strangers in a Strange Land Indecisions, Visions, and Revisions Fatal Attraction A Whale of a Tale "Floreat!" A Place in the Sun The End of the Beginning Post-Scripts Invitations to the Dance Pictures within Pictures: The October Country Laughton and Hitchcock "The...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 279 p. This Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists, this book offers...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. 376 p. ISBN10: 0195388984. ISBN13: 978-0195388985. Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an...
NYU Press, 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN 10 1479826928 / ISBN 13 9781479826926. The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 202 p. Robert Frost is one of the most popular of American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The poetry is discussed in detail in relation to ancient and modern...
Boydell and Brewer, 2017. — 232 p. War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book complicate these expectations, since their...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 174 p. — ISBN10: 1137345500; ISBN13: 978-1137345509. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author...
New York: Liveright, 2015 — 496 p. — ISBN10: 163149001X; ISBN13: 978-1631490019. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Francisco’s legendary City Lights bookstore. Now the man whose A Coney Island of the Mind...
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. — 345 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-59376-188-2; ISBN10: 1-59376-188-0. Edited by Samuele F. S. Pardini. For more than fifty years Leslie Fielder played a crucial role in the development of American literary culture. Despite his often unacknowledged influence, the academy, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read his work and...
Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015. — 273 p. — ISBN10: 3034319665; ISBN13: 978-3034319669. Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a "new specimen of beauty"? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new understanding of Poe's literary significance by...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 288 p. Notes on Contributors Chronology Stephen Fredman Wars I Have Seen Peter Nicholls American poets’ response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British David Herd How US...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 192 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first to reveal the profound Catholic imagery in James' work. Edwin Fussell argues that Henry James, though not a "card-carrying" Catholic, was a fellow-traveling Catholic of a certain literary type. Fussell is not trying to turn James...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 320 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied Black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that will take its...
Ohio State University Press, 2019. — 228 p. Buddhism and Hinduism have spread in the US largely through texts and are now recognizable facets of American literature and culture. But the US has defined itself through goal-oriented individualism, whereas Buddhism and Hinduism teach that individuality is a delusion and thus worldly desires are misguided. Given this apparent...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 245 p. Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 169 p. Sylvia Plath is widely recognised as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has remained constantly in print in the UK and USA (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath’s own writing has been supplemented over the...
McGraw-Hill, 2002. — 1150 p. — ISBN 978-0078-25110-8. "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Glencoe Literature for 2002 also "makes new things familiar and familiar things new." Designed to meet the needs of today's classroom, Glencoe Literature has been developed with careful attention...
Mirage Press, 1972. — 182 p. — ISBN 9780385300957. «Who is Isaac Asimov, the author that Saturday Review called one of America's natural resources? How has he written over a hundred books on a myriad of subjects? How has he developed a style of writing so unique that it can be universally recognized and compared?" "Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Ozimov; c. January 2, 1920 April 6,...
Mirage Press, 1972. — 182 p. — ISBN 9780385300957. «Who is Isaac Asimov, the author that Saturday Review called one of America's natural resources? How has he written over a hundred books on a myriad of subjects? How has he developed a style of writing so unique that it can be universally recognized and compared?" "Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Ozimov; c. January 2, 1920 April 6,...
Columbia University Press, 2015. — xviii, 247 p. — ISBN: 978-0-231-16430-6, 978-0-231-53863-3. The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to...
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1911. — 340 p. The N.W. Harris lectures for 1911. This particular sketch of the relations between democracy and poetry opens with a retrospective view of the institution, and closes with a sort of prophecy about the art. In neither case is there the slightest pretence to completeness. Books and essays on...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. — 1979 — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0195024532; ISBN13: 978-0195024531. Studies the ways in which imaginative literature expresses religious meaning and considers the contribution of literary criticism to religious scholarship, maintaining that a reciprocity exists between literature and religion. The Religious Use and Abuse of Literature: Notes Toward a...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 262 p. This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay....
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 300 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 300 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women's fiction. Habegger has brought to light extensive new documentation on James's tangled connections with what was thought and written about women in his time. The emphasis is...
New York: Burslem Books, 2011. — 200 p. The famous horror author H.P. Lovecraft lived in the golden age of the pedestrian, and walking was one of the central activities of his life. In the mid 1920s he lived in New York City and went on many long night walks exploring the depths of New York City. This new history book places Lovecraft in the tradition of psychogeography and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 275 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Frontier violence comes home to white Americans in twentieth-century fictions that interpret the meaning of the western American past. Rather than serving to regenerate, Handley argues, violence surrounding marriage and family is a degenerative sign of a nation that believed...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 272 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Bishop's career, dividing Bishop's work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007. — 154 p. Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby-Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville’s masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters coverMelville’s...
Routledge, 2018. — 196 p. War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex: more than just a subject for story-telling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the specificity of how American literature deals with the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 242 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that,...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0748682856; ISBN13: 978-0748682850. Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and...
Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1964. — 49 p.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
Brill, 2011. — 256 p. — (Spatial Practices 12). No Maps for These Territories offers an archaeology of seemingly tried and trusted concepts: cartography, architecture, urban space. While rethinking Michel Foucault's theories, Karin Hoepker reconstructs the cartographic dispositives of spatial order. The futuristic fictional cityscapes of science fiction writer William Gibson...
Rodopi, 2005. — 750 p. This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into more specific problems, such as: the broadening of...
Routledge, 2020. — 214 p. American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Melville, Cooper,...
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004. — 224 p. — ISBN-10: 0472068749; ISBN-13: 978-0472068745. From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehearsal in Black, Fables of Representation is a powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, free from the stultifying theoretical jargon of recent literary history. With its title essay, "Fables of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 277 p. Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this study explores how regional writing shapes ways of imagining not only...
University of Michigan Press, 2014. — 228 p. Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillam. — 2010. — 206 p. ISBN10: 023062202X; ISBN13: 978-0230622029. Huntsperger focuses on 4 eminent contemporary poets, such as Hejinian who was one of the first female contenders in the language movement, and Silliman, who has a blog that gets 100,000 views a week. Both Berrigan and Antin (deceased) are decidedly part of the postmodern poetry canon. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — viii, 315 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-33164-1, 978-3-030-33165-8. True PDF "Henry Miller and Modernism: The Years in Paris, 1930–1939" represents a major reevaluation of Henry Miller, focusing on the Paris texts from 1930 to 1939. Finn Jensen analyzes Miller in the light of European modernism, in particular considering the many impulses Miller received in...
Center for Hellenic Studies, 2006. — 320 p. The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world. The first half of...
Penguin Group, 2007. - 350 p. S. T. Joshi is a widely published writer and editor. He has edited three Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror tales as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002), Lord Dunsany’s In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales (2004), and two volumes of ghost stories by M. R. James (2005, 2006)....
Liverpool University Press, 2001. — 191 p. Ramsey Campbell is one of the worlds leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of CampbellвЂs rich and varied work, from his early tales to the powerfully innovative stories...
Ohio University Press, 1980. — 260 p. Examines the literary influences that affected him, his poetry and essays, his work as a regional and local-color writer, and the evolution of his vast pseudo-mythology in both his writings and the writings of others, as well as his reactions to the political and economic development of his time. This volume is designed to present Lovecraft...
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2017. — 210 p. — ISBN10: 1433143054; ISBN13: 978-1433143052 Few poets have been as adamant about the uselessness of their art in the face of history as American poet George Oppen (1908-1984), and yet, few poets have been as viscerally convinced of the important role of the poem in restoring meaning to our words. Oppen came to maturity...
New York: Cavendish Square Publishing LLC, 2014. — 114 p. Learn about one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury, and his experiences in youth, his passion for writing captivating and unknowingly prophetic stories, and the Cold War era that shaped him.
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 149 p.
Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study ofWhitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American CivilWar, the growth of...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 464 p. Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 619 p. A Companion to Walt Whitman (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) edited by Donald D. Kummings comprises more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. • Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 619 p. A Companion to Walt Whitman (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) edited by Donald D. Kummings comprises more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. • Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 619 p. A Companion to Walt Whitman (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) edited by Donald D. Kummings comprises more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. • Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 619 p. A Companion to Walt Whitman (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) edited by Donald D. Kummings comprises more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. • Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 619 p. A Companion to Walt Whitman (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) edited by Donald D. Kummings comprises more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. • Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on...
Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2019. — 239 p. — ISBN: 978-82-02-61654-0 The present volume is a collection of essays aiming to shed new light on dif f erent aspects of the role of religion in Bob Dylan’s artistic output. The eight authors are all from Scandinavia, seven from Norway and one from Denmark. Norwegian Dylan-scholars will always remember when Dylan, at a concert in Oslo in...
Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2019. — 564 p. — ISBN: 978-82-02-61654-0 The present volume is a collection of essays aiming to shed new light on dif f erent aspects of the role of religion in Bob Dylan’s artistic output. The eight authors are all from Scandinavia, seven from Norway and one from Denmark. Norwegian Dylan-scholars will always remember when Dylan, at a concert in Oslo in...
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New York: Taylor & Francis Books, 2004. — 198 p. — ISBN: 0-415-96633-7 Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 621 p. — ISBN10: 1405195533; ISBN13: 978-1405195539. A Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 — 712 p. — ISBN10: 0631208925; ISBN13: 978-0631208921. This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the...
Melville House, 2019. — 206 p. When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. — 205 p. Fraternal Devotions: Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America. Gish Jen and the Gendered Codes of Americanness. Transversing Nationalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters . Global-Local Discourse and Gendered Screen Fictions in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest...
University of Alabama Press, 2017. — 224 p. In this provocative and thought-provoking volume, Christopher Leise sheds new light on modern American novelists who question not only the assumption that Puritans founded New England—and, by extension, American identity—but also whether Puritanism ever existed in the United States at all. The Story upon a Hill: The Puritan Myth in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 594 p. — (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 179p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the time of Poe. It describes how America - through political movements, changes in education, magazine editorial policy and the work of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0826427634; ISBN13: 978-0826427632. A close look at the genesis of one of America's great modern writers. Robert Emmet Long presents a full account of Truman Capote's early life, making use of Capote's unpublished papers. Topics covered include his strange relationship with his beautiful but immature mother (she was sixteen years...
Routledge, 2005. — 306 p. A compendium of critical receptions of major works of John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers (September 1921), One Man’s Initiation—1917 (London, October 1920 New York, June 1922), Manhattan Transfer (November 1925), The 42nd Parallel (February 1930), 1919 (March 1932), The Big Money (August 1936), Adventures of a Young Man (June 1939), Number One (March 1943),...
Foreword by Lee Child. — Polity, 2019. — 290 p. Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me , the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 268 p.
Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson’s biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 160 p. Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologized has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and...
London, New York: Routledge, 2016. — 275 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-01623-1 (hbk), 978-1-138-01624-8 (pbk), 978-1-315-77913-3 (ebk). The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 268 p. Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson’s biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her...
Harper One, 2023. — 455 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-305969-6 Ralph Waldo Emerson was a spiritual revolutionary whose profound vision of human potential came to define the American character. Known as America’s original Stoic, he offered a radical message of optimism, authenticity, and self-realization that is more necessary today than ever. In this timely, remarkable book, noted...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 631 p. This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars Allows readers to...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 264 p. There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship...
Timber Press, 2019. — 268 p. — ISBN: 978-1604698220. Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener—sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and...
Durham: New Hampshire University Press, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1512601365; ISBN13: 978-1512601367 — (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville’s novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she...
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001 — 202 p. — ISBN10: 0791449548; ISBN13: 978-0791449547. Holding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in...
University of Missouri Press, 2001. — 207 р. Язык английский. Джон Апдайк и холодная война. Содержание: - Note on Citation - Introduction - Knowledge of an Immense Catastrophe - Zero-Sum Marriages, Global Games - Vietnam and the Politics of Undovishness - Seeing How the Other Half Lives - A Reason to Get Up in the Morning - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 305 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-38265-6. Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of...
Ohio University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Including an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike. Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth Strout’s work. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the O. Henry Award,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Through the voice of American fiction, Religion and Sexuality in American Fiction examines the relations of body and spirit (religion and sexuality) by asking two basic questions: How have American novelists handled the interaction between religious and sexual experience? Are...
Columbia: University of Missouri, 2006. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0826216935; ISBN13: 978-0826216939. A dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years, Louise Glück has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named U.S. poet laureate for 2003–2004. In a new full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 162 p.
Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and
style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound’s life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction is designed to help...
University Press of Kentucky, 1997. — 272 p. During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0199218269; ISBN13: 978-0199218264. Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen's commitment to Marxism and his later...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 414 p. A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 192 p. — (Poets on Poetry) — ISBN-10: 0472068598; ISBN-13: 978-0472068593. Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience . Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and their allies: Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron...
Taplinger Publishing Company, 1977. — 254 p. — (Writers of the Century). — ISBN 9780800842574, 080084257X, 0800842588. A collection of literary reviews and critiques of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction works. An evaluation of the literary achievements of the renowned biochemist, popularizer of science, and science-fiction writer illuminates the scope of his creativity and his...
Taplinger Publishing Company, 1977. — 254 p. — (Writers of the Century). — ISBN 9780800842574, 080084257X, 0800842588. A collection of literary reviews and critiques of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction works. An evaluation of the literary achievements of the renowned biochemist, popularizer of science, and science-fiction writer illuminates the scope of his creativity and his...
Facts On File, Inc., 2006. — 417 p. Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work by Charles M. Oliver is an encyclopedic guide to the American poet Walt Whitman that includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings. Contents...
Facts On File, Inc., 2006. — 417 p. Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work by Charles M. Oliver is an encyclopedic guide to the American poet Walt Whitman that includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings. Contents...
Facts On File, Inc., 2006. — 417 p. Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work by Charles M. Oliver is an encyclopedic guide to the American poet Walt Whitman that includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings. Contents...
Facts On File, Inc., 2006. — 417 p. Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work by Charles M. Oliver is an encyclopedic guide to the American poet Walt Whitman that includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings. Contents...
Facts On File, Inc., 2006. — 417 p. Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work by Charles M. Oliver is an encyclopedic guide to the American poet Walt Whitman that includes entries on his works and characters, biographical information, influential people in his life, important places, and literary terms relevant to his writings. Contents...
New York, London: Grove Press, Inc. , Evergreen Books. Ltd., 1947. — 120 p.
First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences - especially Shakespearean ones - on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," Olson argues that...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. — 382 p. — ISBN10: 0520208730; ISBN13: 978-0520208735. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910–1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. — 90 p. — ISBN: 224 6i379 0; 224 6l378 2. Some time towards the end of 1950, it was in December I think, but the letter isn't dated, I heard that Charles Olson was off to Yucatan. A sudden 'fluke' - the availability of some retirement money owed him from past work as a mail carrier-gave him enough for the trip, 'not much but a couple of hundred,...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. — 534 p. — ISBN: 0-520-20580-4. Edited by Ralph Maud. For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. — 382 p. — ISBN10: 0520208730; ISBN13: 978-0520208735. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910–1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the...
New York: Paragon House, 1989. — 154 p. — ISBN: 1-55778-111-7. Among poets in mid-century America, Charles Olson is a dominating and influential figure. He is best known for The Maximus Poems, an epic sequence which Olson worked on for twenty years, f r om 1950 until his death in 1970. Set in the place where he spent summers as a child, the seacoast town of Gloucester,...
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo. 2008. — 248 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-39375-4 ISBN13: 978-0-521-88405-1. Modern poetry crossed racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious book,...
Pegasus, 2009. — 554 р. — ISBN-10: 1605980579 Some of the best-known and most influential pieces of crime fiction have been from African American writers. Be it Walter Mosley’s great detective Easy Rawlins, or the mean streets of Harlem at the hands of Chester Himes, the stories and characters in this anthology have shaped the mystery genre with their own unique viewpoints and...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 156 p.
As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style....
USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 275 p. Prologue: On the Breadlines and the Headlines. Labor and Desire: A Gendered History of Literary Radicalism. The Contradictions of Gender and Genre. The Great Mother: Female Working-Class Subjectivity. Grotesque Creatures: The Female Intellectual as Subject. Epilogue: Bread and Roses Too: Notes toward a Materialist-Feminist...
USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 275 p. Prologue: On the Breadlines and the Headlines. Labor and Desire: A Gendered History of Literary Radicalism. The Contradictions of Gender and Genre. The Great Mother: Female Working-Class Subjectivity. Grotesque Creatures: The Female Intellectual as Subject. Epilogue: Bread and Roses Too: Notes toward a Materialist-Feminist...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 — 295 p. — ISBN10: 0520240154; ISBN13: 978-0520240155. Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 187 p. — ISBN13: 978–1–4039–7238–5, ISBN10: 1–4039–7238–9. Sisters in Sin: Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun. The Image of You, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime: Lillian Hellman’s Memories of Black Women. The Very House of Difference: Audre Lorde’s Autobiographies. Just This Side of Colored: Ellen Foster and Night Talk. Who...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 — 346 p. — ISBN10: 0521694507; ISBN13: 978-0521694506. Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 489 p. The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 156 p. Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important authors in nineteenth-century America. Today, her reputation is more complex, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been debated and analyzed in many different ways. This book provides a summary of Stowe’s...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 155 p. The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work also delineates new ways of making sense of the “science” of science fiction....
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 246 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
In Emerson and the Conduct of Life, David M. Robinson describes Ralph Waldo Emerson's evolution from mystic to pragmatist, stressing the importance of Emerson's undervalued later writing. Emerson's reputation has rested on the addresses and essays of the 1830s and 1840s, in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 264 p. Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 174 p. ISBN13: 978-0-521-89686-3. Throughout its history, America has been the scene of multiple encounters between communities speaking different languages. Literature has long sought to represent these encounters in various ways, from James Fenimore Cooper’s frontier fictions to the Jewish-American writers who popularized Yiddish as a...
Routledge, 2016. — 470 p. Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and...
New York University Press, 2015. — viii, 199 p. — (Cultural Front). — ISBN: 978-1-4798-2886-9, 978-1-4798-0555-6. True PDF "Deafening Modernism" tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist...
Liverpool University Press. 2000. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0853238448. This wide-ranging volume explores the various dialogues that flourish between different aspects of science fiction: academics and fans, writers and readers; ideological stances and national styles; different interpretations of the genre; and how language and "voices" are used in constructing SF. Introduced by the...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1999. — 128 p. — ISBN-10: 0819563270; ISBN-13: 978-0819563272 The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities between early Zen thought and some American avant-garde writings that counter the "language of determinateness," or conventions of perception. The...
Interview of Elissa Schappell with the famous afro-american writer Toni Morrison, 1992
In the interview the writer tells about her habits and schedule of work. She also comments on writing as a profession and her comprehension of it.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-2015. — 3696 Pages p. — ISBN: N/A. — Volumes 1-4. The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose of one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. The result of a multi-year collaboration among Eliot's Estate, Faber and Faber Ltd., Johns Hopkins...
Routledge, 2021. — 204 p. Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists’...
Penn State University Press, 2013. — 496 p. — ISBN13: 9780271063737. Author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. Yet, despite the sale of nearly thirty million copies of her works, there have been few extended scholarly examinations of her thought. Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 303 p.
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a...
A Little Brown Book, 1999. — 242 p. Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick immortalized the idea of a mammoth sperm whale roaming the seas, wreaking havoc on all that crossed its path. But could such a creature actually exist, then or now? To find out, the acclaimed adventure writer and explorer Tim Severin set off to the islands of the South Pacific in search of one of our...
Rutgers University Press, 2012. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-0-813-55167-8. Dorothy West is best known as one of the youngest writers involved in the Harlem Renaissance. Subsequently, her work is read as a product of the urban aesthetics of this artistic movement. But West was also intimately rooted in a very different milieu—Oak Bluffs, an exclusive retreat for African Americans on...
Oxford Univerity Press, 1993. — 228 p. Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art in verse, prose, and paint; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward its outlook - the autocracies of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 191 p. This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
In his old age T.S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — ix, 201 p. — (Palgrave Gothic). — ISBN 978-1-137-53279-4. In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right through to contemporary examples, such as the novels of...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 283 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
Edith Wharton emerges in this book as a novelist of morals (rather than manners). Behind her polished portraits of upper-class New York life is a thoughtful, questioning spirit. This book analyzes Wharton's religion and philosophy in short stories and seven major novels. It...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — x, 185 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-885270-4. Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a...
Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0773540830; ISBN13: 978-0773540835. Edgar Allan Poe, arguing that brevity and intensity were the essence of poetry, declared there was no such thing as a long poem. It can also be said there is no difference between a short and a long poem except duration: a measure of time. Time in Time examines what the...
Berkeley University of California Press, 2014 — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0520241606; ISBN13: 978-0520241602. Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra...
2012. — 328 pages. — ISBN: 1481078763, First Bill Steigerwald took John Steinbeck's classic "Travels With Charley" and used it as a map for his own cross-country road trip in search of America. Then he proved Steinbeck's iconic nonfiction book was a 50-year-old literary fraud. A true story about the triumph of truth. "Steinbeck falsified his trip. I am delighted that you went...
Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2015 — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0816694419; ISBN13: 978-0816694419 Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 264 p. — (Hopkins Studies in Modernism). — ISBN10: 142142357X; ISBN13: 978-1421423579 In Red Modernism , Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned―and aesthetically responsive―to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise...
Routledge, 2009. — 274 p. Introduction: “A Band of National Union”: Literature, Gender, and American Language Ideologies Hope Leslie, Women’s Petitions, and Political Discourse in Jacksonian America Vocal (Im)Propriety and the Management of Sociopolitical Mobility in The Wide, Wide World and Ragged Dick The (Re)Construction of Dialect and African American (Dis)Franchisement in...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-23013-8. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens...
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Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. — 281 p. — ISBN10: 0786467886; ISBN13: 978-0786467884. Seventeen interviews with George and Mary Oppen, conducted between 1968 and 1987, are here brought together for the first time. Two are fresh discoveries, while re-audited recordings of other interviews have given a new authoritative accuracy to the text. These conversations provide a unique...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 296 p. In the wings of histories about the Progressive Era and literary modernism stands a cohort of individuals who promoted reform by popularizing poetry, working behind the scenes to create an institutional infrastructure to support authors who addressed the problems of contemporary life. In this engagingly written and thoroughly researched book,...
London: Continuum, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1441163212; ISBN13: 978-1441163219 — (Continuum Literary Studies. Book 198) In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 246 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues...
Routledge 2003. — 206 р. Язык: английский. Феминистские утопические романы 1970-х годов. (Рассматривается американская литература.) Содержание: List of Tables - Rhetoric of Identification - New Rhetoric of Genre - Utopia as Rhetorical Subject Chapter One: Utopia and Utopianism - Utopia and Ideology - Utopia as Literary Genre Chapter Two: Utopianism and Feminism - Scrapping...
Revised Edition — HarperCollins, 2019. — 368 p. When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn't even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters ,...
Scarecrow Press, 2013. — 167 p. In his classic study Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft discusses the emergence of what he called spectral literature—literature that involves the gothic themes of the supernatural found in the past but also considers modern society and humanity. Beyond indicating how authors of such works derived pleasure from a sense of cosmic...
Routledge, 2006. — 465 p. Providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis, this guide can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the study of primary theoretical works. It aims to motivate readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 240 p. Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and transitional society. By this interpretation he introduces a new and imaginative approach to the writer and his work, and Howells emerges as...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 242 р. — ISBN 0-19-514699-9. In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's...
Routledge, 2016. — 203 p. The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader to the essential history of the period including technology, religion, economy, class,...
Routledge, 2018. — 198 p. The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 283 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
This book juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the...
Книга о Мэг Кэбот, серия: Who wrote that? Язык английский. Более 130 стр. Много цветных фотографий. Мэг Кэбот - автор Дневников Принцессы (The Princess Diaries), Jinx, Pants on Fire и других популярных романов для подростков и взрослых. Foreword by Kyle Zimmer President, First Book - Princess in Pink - A Star Is Born - How to Be Popular - College Bound - Princess in the City -...
2nd Ed. — Facts on File, 2009. — 859 p. — (Companion to Literature). — ISBN10: 081606895X, ISBN13: 978-0816068951. Since the first American short story was published in 1799, interest in the genre has continued to grow: sales of collections have risen, short story readings proliferate in bookstores, and stories have been increasingly incorporated in the college curriculum....
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 801 p. — ISBN 1108477674. The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media...
Edited by: Shelby A. Wolf , Karen Coats , Patricia Enciso , Christine A. Jenkins. — Routledge, 2010. — 555 p. — ISBN 0-203-84354-1. This landmark volume is the first to bring together the leading scholarship on American children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 308 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture).
This study analyzes the power, allure, and consequences of radical individualism and the kind of cultural critique it generates in the major figure of American Romanticism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the central figure of American modernism, Ezra Pound. Both writers set out to...
Lexington Books, 2014. — 142 p. The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an “authentic” relationship with nature. This idealized notion about life in the Southwest, however, has contributed...
Facts on File, 2006. — 400 p. This comprehensive reference offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. The Critical Companion series examines the lives and works of the writers most studied by high-school and college students. The...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 230 pages. — ISBN10: 0691123578; ISBN13: 978-0691123578. How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 167 p.
The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to great works of American literature. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the work’s composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 516 p. Notes on Contributors. Greg W. Zacharias. Chronology of Henry James’s Life and Work. Jennifer Eimers. Part I Fiction and Non-Fiction. Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market: James’s Shorter Fiction, 1865–1878. Clair Hughes. What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study. Sarah Wadsworth. Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in...
М.: Культура, 2002. — 432 с. — ISBN: 5-8189-0232-3. Книга известного литературоведа и литературного критика охватывает путь литературы США от начальных ее времен до рубежа XX-XXI веков. Обращаясь к центральным фигурам - Бенджамену Франклину и Эрнесту Хемингуэю, Уолту Уитмену и Уильяму Фолкнеру, Генри Торо и Скотту Фицджеральду, Марку Твену и Шервуду Андерсону, Ральфу Уолдо...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2010. — 344 с. — ISBN 978-5-86793-749-2 Качество: Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста Описание: Первая в истории отечественной филологии научная монография, посвященная Генри Миллеру, культовому американскому писателю, знаменитому своими скандальными романами "Тропик Рака" и "Тропик Козерога". В книге делается попытка...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2010. — 344 с. — ISBN 978-5-86793-749-2 Качество: Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста Описание: Первая в истории отечественной филологии научная монография, посвященная Генри Миллеру, культовому американскому писателю, знаменитому своими скандальными романами "Тропик Рака" и "Тропик Козерога". В книге делается попытка...
СПб.: Изд-во СПбГУ, 2000 - 192 с. (в электр. виде). - ISBN: 5-1288-02000-0.
В монографии, посвященной творчеству выдающеюся англо-американского поэта, теоретика литерагуры, культуролога Т.С. Элиота (1888-1965), впервые в отечественном литературоведении подробно исследуются проблемы его раннего творчества и анализируется эстетическая теория поэзии, созданная мастером. Особое...
Художественная литература, 1984. - 351 с. Работа известного советского литературоведа С. Батурина рассказывает о творческом и жизненном пути американского писателя Джона Стейнбека (1902-1968), его роли в развитии реалистической литературы США. В книгу включены также статьи С. Батурина о творчестве Фенимора Купера и Теодора Драйзера, освещающие процесс становления реализма в...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2003. — 328 с. — (Научное приложение. Вып. XXXIJ). — ISBN: 5-86793-236-2. Идеал общительности, полноценного разговора общечеловечен, но и своеобычен для каждой культуры. Американский идеал, становящийся (в XVIII—XIX столетиях) в силовом поле рыночных практик, политической демократии, новорожденной системы массовых коммуникаций близок модели...
К.: Вид. Центр КНЛУ, 2015. — 73 с. Puritan Myth as the Background for American National Mentality American Enlightenment as Passage from Religious to Secular Mythology Mythologizing Native American as a Part of American National Mythology African Americans as an Important Source of National Mythology Mythology of American Individualism and Its Transformation in Mass...
М.: Наука, 1975. - Академия наук СССР, 200 с. Книга состоит из очерков о писателях США (Уитмен, Беллами, Хоуэллс, Рид, Стеффенс, Дюбуа и др.), в творчестве которых нашли свое яркое воплощение идеи солидарности, коллективизма, пафос борьбы за переустройство американского общества на подлинно справедливых социалистических началах. Автор показывает, как плодотворное воздействие...
Статья из монографии Денисовой Т.Н. Экзистенциализм и современный американский роман. - "Наукова думка", К. 1985. – 245с.
Проблема отчуждения, столь актуальная и столь популярная в американской литературе и науке о литературе XX в., неразрывно связана с проблемой личности и ее функционирования в обществе. Но попытаемся прочертить в ее решении некоторые контурные линии на...
К.: Києво-Могилянська академія, 2014. — 532 с. До збірника доктора філологічних наук, професора, автора дев’яти монографій з літератури США й «Історії американської літератури XX ст.» Т. Н. Денисової увійшли наукові статті, написані й видрукувані у різних виданнях, починаючи з 90-х років і до сьогодення, а також окремі — вагомі й значущі — доповіді на авторитетних міжнародних...
ДЕНИСОВА Тамара, д-р філол. наук, проф., провідний науковий співробітник Інституту літератури НАН України, учасниця програми Фулбрайта 1995 р. Наукові зацікавлення: роман, його жанрова своєрідність, зарубіжна література XX ст., постмодернізм, мультикультуралізм, література США.
Автор рассматривает вопросы о том как самоидентифицирует себя автор, роль этой самоидентификации в в...
Киев: Наукова думка, 1985.
В монографии рассматриваются проблемы личности, духовного мира человека. Анализируя американскую литературу (творчество Хемингуэя,Пинчона, Стейнбека, Мейлера, Беллоу), автор стремится показать, что только в реалистическом романе происходит углубление понимания личности. Для литературоведов, преподавателей и студентов филологических факультетов.
Пер. с англ. Н.Ф. Давыдовой, под ред. В.А. Азова. – Л.: Государственное издательство, 1926. – 199 с. Книга Эла Дженнингса «О.Генри на дне» (в оригинале – «Through the Shadows With O. Henry», 1921) – воспоминания о выдающемся американском писателе, авторе несравненных коротких рассказов О’Генри (Уильяме Сидни Портере, 1862–1910), сидевшем с ним в тюрьме города Колумбус штата...
Л.: Государственное издательство (Ленинград). – 199 с. Книга американского бандита-налетчика Эль Дженингса "О.Генри на дне" - воспоминания о выдающемся американском писателе, авторе несравненных коротких рассказов О.Генри (Уильяме Сидни Портере) (1862-1910), сидевшем с автором воспоминаний в тюрьме Колумбус штата Огайо по обвинению в растрате. По мотивам книги в 1933 году был...
М.: Радуга, 1983. — 672 с.
На английском языке с параллельным русским текстом.
В антологии представлены лучшие образцы творчества американских поэтов XIX—XX вв. и их переводы на русский язык. Книга дает наглядное представление о том, как развивалась русская и советская школа стихотворного перевода и как воспринималась в нашей стране
американская поэзия.
Издание...
М.: Радуга, 1990. - 624 с. - ISBN: 5-05-002560-5 В книгу включены краткие статьи, посвященные творчеству прозаиков, поэтов, драматургов США – наиболее крупных представителей американской словесности за трехсотлетнюю историю ее развития – от колониальных времен до середины 80-х годов XX века.
Издание предназначено для студентов, аспирантов, научных сотрудников-филологов и всех...
М.: Радуга, 1990. — 624 с. ISBN: 5-05-002560-5 В книгу включены краткие статьи, посвященные творчеству прозаиков, поэтов, драматургов США – наиболее крупных представителей американской словесности за трехсотлетнюю историю ее развития – от колониальных времен до середины 80-х годов XX века. Издание предназначено для студентов, аспирантов, научных сотрудников-филологов и всех...
М.: Радуга, 1990. — 624 с. — ISBN: 5-05-002560-5 В книгу включены краткие статьи, посвященные творчеству прозаиков, поэтов, драматургов США – наиболее крупных представителей американской словесности за трехсотлетнюю историю ее развития – от колониальных времен до середины 80-х годов XX века. Издание предназначено для студентов, аспирантов, научных сотрудников-филологов и всех тех,...
Монография. Издательство Московского университета, 1984. — 504 с. В монографии исследуется путь литературы США в XX веке. Рассматривается творческая эволюция ведущих американских писателей (Т. Драйзера, Дж. Рида, С. Льюиса, Э. Хэмингуэя, У. Фолкнера, Дж. Стейнбека и др.). Вскрываются механизмы использования "бульварной" литературы правящими кругами страны в реакционных целях....
М. : Худож. лит., 1982. - 256 с. В книге анализируются основные тенденции развития американского романа межвоенной поры в творчестве Т. Драйзера, У. Фолкнера, Э. Хемингуэя, Д. DOC Пассоса, С. Фицджеральда, Д. Стейнбека; исследуется эстетическое преломление социальных процессов американской действительности 20—30-х годов. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Содержание....
Научное издание. — М.: РГГУ, 2009. — 229 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-1064-4. Исследуется художественный мир одного из крупнейших американских писателей XX века — Сола Беллоу, рассматриваются проблемы поэтики его романа: видение мира и человека, изображение характера, художественный образ и стилистика. Для студентов-филологов, специалистов по зарубежной литературе и для широкого круга...
Монография. — Казань: РИЦ «Школа», 2015. — 308 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9905687-5-4. Настоящая монография посвящена проблемам современной еврейской литературы как части мультикультурной литературы США. Автор рассматривает творчество нескольких современных писателей в точки зрения тематики, проблематики и поэтики, которые становятся средством отражения этнической идентичности....
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М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 457 с.
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М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 457 с.
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