Studies in American Language, Culture and Literature
Title | Studies in American Language, Culture and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Piotr P. Chruszczewski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
American Cultural Studies
Title | American Cultural Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Neil C. Campbell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2005-08-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134796927 |
Drawing on literature, art, film theatre, music and much more, American Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary introduction to American culture for those taking American Studies. This textbook: * introduces the full range and variety of American culture including issues of race, gender and youth * provides a truly interdisciplinary methodology * suggests and discusses a variety of approaches to study * highlights American distinctiveness * draws on literature, art, film, theatre, architecture, music and more * challenges orthodox paradigms of American Studies. This is a fast-expanding subject area, and Campbell and Kean's book will certainly be a staple part of any cultural studies student's reading diet.
English and American Studies
Title | English and American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Middeke |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 539 |
Release | 2016-08-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3476004066 |
Das ganze Studium der Anglistik und Amerikanistik in einem Band. Ob englische und amerikanische Literatur, Sprachwissenschaft, Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, Fachdidaktik oder die Analyse von Filmen und kulturellen Phänomenen führende Fachvertreter geben in englischer Sprache einen ausführlichen Überblick über alle relevanten Teildisziplinen. BA- und MA-Studierende finden hier die wichtigsten Grundlagen und Wissensgebiete auf einen Blick. Durch die übersichtliche Darstellung und das Sachregister optimal für das systematische Lernen und zum Nachschlagen geeignet.
Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language
Title | Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Jakub Lipski |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2018-02-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319740210 |
This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant in the context of the ongoing migration crisis. The contributors employ a diverse range of theoretical standpoints – from close reading to deconstruction, from historically informed approaches to linguistic analysis – and thus offer a nuanced panorama of these issues, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.
Multilingual America
Title | Multilingual America PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Alan Rosenwald |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 052189686X |
Explores the ways in which writers of American literature have represented encounters between communities speaking different languages.
Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860–1940
Title | Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860–1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Stoneley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2003-03-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139436740 |
Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes
Title | Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome McGann |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2022-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226818462 |
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.