The Journey Narrative in American Literature
Title | The Journey Narrative in American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Janis P. Stout |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1983-12-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Stout seeks to survey the uses of the journey narrative as a structural and thematic device in American fiction and poetry. She identifies basic patterns -- exploration, escape, journey of home founding, and the limitless journey of wandering without direction or destination -- and indicates the breadth and variety of its occurrence with illustrations. She also examines its use in a few novels, and in the poetry of Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens.
A Journey Through American Literature
Title | A Journey Through American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin J. Hayes |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2012-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199862060 |
A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and eclectic literary tradition.
Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Title | Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole N. Aljoe |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2014-11-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 081393639X |
Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the importance—even the necessity—of looking beyond the iconic and ubiquitous works of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. In granting sustained critical attention to writers such as Briton Hammon, Omar Ibn Said, Juan Francisco Manzano, Nat Turner, and Venture Smith, among others, this book makes a crucial contribution not only to scholarship on the slave narrative but also to our understanding of early African American and Black Atlantic literature. The essays explore the social and cultural contexts, the aesthetic and rhetorical techniques, and the political and ideological features of these noncanonical texts. By concentrating on earlier slave narratives not only from the United States but from the Caribbean, South America, and Latin America as well, the volume highlights the inherent transnationality of the genre, illuminating its complex cultural origins and global circulation.
A Stranger's Journey
Title | A Stranger's Journey PDF eBook |
Author | David Mura |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 082035368X |
Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir. His essays offer technique-focused readings of writers such as James Baldwin, ZZ Packer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Karr, and Garrett Hongo, while making compelling connections to Mura's own life and work as a Japanese American writer. In A Stranger's Journey, Mura poses two central questions. The first involves identity: How is writing an exploration of who one is and one's place in the world? Mura examines how the myriad identities in our changing contemporary canon have led to new challenges regarding both craft and pedagogy. Here, like Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark or Jeff Chang's Who We Be, A Stranger's Journey breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the issues of race, literature, and culture. The book's second central question involves structure: How does one tell a story? Mura provides clear, insightful narrative tools that any writer may use, taking in techniques from fiction, screenplays, playwriting, and myth. Through this process, Mura candidly explores the newly evolved aesthetic principles of memoir and how questions of identity occupy a central place in contemporary memoir.
The Oregon Trail
Title | The Oregon Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Rinker Buck |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2015-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1451659164 |
A new American journey.
Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c
Title | Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c PDF eBook |
Author | John Kirk Townsend |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | History |
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Secret Journeys
Title | Secret Journeys PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn C. Wesley |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780791439968 |
Examines the subversive and constructive narrative of female journey in American literature, from the seventeenth century to the present.