Allegories of America

Allegories of America
Title Allegories of America PDF eBook
Author Frederick M. Dolan
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 246
Release 2018-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501726234

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Allegories of Encounter

Allegories of Encounter
Title Allegories of Encounter PDF eBook
Author Andrew Newman
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 237
Release 2018-11-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1469643464

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Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.

Allegories of America

Allegories of America
Title Allegories of America PDF eBook
Author Frederick M. Dolan
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 254
Release 2018-03-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1501726242

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Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs. The pressing problem, in Dolan's view, is how to find a vocabulary for politics in the absence of European metaphysics. American political thinkers, he suggests, might respond by approaching their own theories as allegories. The postmodern dilemma of the loss of traditional absolutes would thus assume the status of a national mythology—America's perennial identity crisis in the absence of a tradition establishing the legitimacy of its founding. After examining the mid-Atlantic sermons of John Winthrop, the spiritual founding father, Dolan reflects on the authority of the Constitution and the Federalist. He then takes on questions of representation in Cold War ideology, focusing on the language of David Easton and other liberal political "behaviorists," as well as on cold War cinema and the coverage of international affairs by American journalists. Additional discussions are inspired by Hannah Arendt's recasting of political theory in a narrative framework. here Dolan considers two starkly contrasting postwar literary figures—William S. Burroughs and James Merrill—both of whom have a troubled relationship to politics but nonetheless register an urgent need to articulate its dangers and opportunities. Alongside Merrill's unraveling of the distinction between the serious and the fictive, Dolan assesses the attempt in Arendt's On Revolution to reclaim fictional devices for political reflection.

The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature

The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
Title The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature PDF eBook
Author Cindy Weinstein
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 282
Release 1995-01-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521470544

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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 debates about symbol and allegory, and Cindy Weinstein contends that allegory during this period was critiqued on precisely the same grounds as mechanized labor. In the course of completing a historical investigation, Weinstein revolutionizes the notion of allegorical narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater depth and consequence than has previously been implied.

Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory

Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory
Title Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory PDF eBook
Author J. Elliott
Publisher Springer
Pages 225
Release 2008-06-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0230612806

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This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.

Allegories of Cinema

Allegories of Cinema
Title Allegories of Cinema PDF eBook
Author David E. James
Publisher
Pages 388
Release 1989
Genre Experimental films
ISBN 9780691047553

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Discusses avant garde films produced during the sixties, and considers the work of Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol

Bodies and Maps

Bodies and Maps
Title Bodies and Maps PDF eBook
Author Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publisher BRILL
Pages 435
Release 2020-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 9004438033

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An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.