Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism
Title | Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 0198030118 |
Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II
Title | Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2000-06-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0195351231 |
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.
Literary Culture and U
Title | Literary Culture and U PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Post-Nationalist American Studies
Title | Post-Nationalist American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2000-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520224396 |
Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era, adopting a less insular, more transnational approach to the subject.
American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1930–1941
Title | American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1930–1941 PDF eBook |
Author | Ichiro Takayoshi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107085268 |
"Ichiro Takayoshi's book argues that World War II transformed American literary culture. From the mid-1930s to the American entry into World War II in 1941, pre-eminent figures from Ernest Hemingway to Reinhold Neibuhr responded to the turn of the public's interest from the economic depression at home to the menace of totalitarian systems abroad by producing novels, short stories, plays, poems, and cultural criticism in which they prophesied the coming of a second world war and explored how America could prepare for it. The variety of competing answers offered a rich legacy of idioms, symbols, and standard arguments that were destined to license America's promotion of its values and interests around the world for the rest of the twentieth century. Ambitious in scope and addressing an enormous range of writers, thinkers, and artists, this book is the first to establish the outlines of American culture during this pivotal period."--Provided by publisher.
American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1930-1941
Title | American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1930-1941 PDF eBook |
Author | Ichiro Takayoshi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 9781107448834 |
"Ichiro Takayoshi's book argues that World War II transformed American literary culture. From the mid-1930s to the American entry into World War II in 1941, pre-eminent figures from Ernest Hemingway to Reinhold Niebuhr responded to the turn of the public's interest from the economic depression at home to the menace of totalitarian systems abroad by producing novels, short stories, plays, poems, and cultural criticism in which they prophesied the coming of a second world war and explored how America could prepare for it. The variety of competing answers offered a rich legacy of idioms, symbols, and standard arguments that were destined to license America's promotion of its values and interests around the world for the rest of the twentieth century. Ambitious in scope and addressing an enormous range of writers, thinkers, and artists, this book is the first to establish the outlines of American culture during this pivotal period"--
The Language of War
Title | The Language of War PDF eBook |
Author | James Dawes |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2009-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674030268 |
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.