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  • Beautiful Deceptions

    European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art

    de Philipp Schweighauser ...
    The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Haunted narratives

    Life Writing in an Age of Trauma

    Edición de Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, Therese Steffen ...
    Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Boasian Verse

    The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead

    de Philipp Schweighauser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the divergent representations of cultural others and the uses of ethnographic studies for cultural critique. This volume aims to illuminate central ... Leer más

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  • Telling the Truth

    The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction

    de Barbara C. Foley ...
    Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of English

    Reconstructing English as a Discipline

    de Robert Scholes ...
    In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in our educational system, diagnosing the educational illness he perceives in ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • A Manifesto for Literary Studies

    de Marjorie Garber ...
    "A Manifesto for Literary Studies," writes Marjorie Garber, “is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature. It is a manifesto in the sense that it invites strong declarations and big ideas, rather than impeccable small contributions to edifices long under construction.” Known for her timely ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    de Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    de Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Validating Bachelorhood

    Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

    de Scott Slawinski ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity. ... Leer más

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  • Theory of Literature

    de Paul H. Fry ...
    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

    An Introductory Reader

    de Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham, John Gardner, Marshall Gregory, John J. Han, Jack Harrell, Richard E. Hart, Barbara A. Heavilin, Marianne Jennings, Bernard Malamud, Toni Morrison, Georgia A. Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, James Phelan, Mary R. Reichardt, Nina Rosenstand, Stephen L. Tanner, John Updike, John H. Wallace, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Bruce Young, Charles Johnson, Jay Parini, David R. Parker, Richard A. Posner ...
    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • From Puritanism to Postmodernism

    A History of American Literature

    de Richard Ruland ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD