The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-century American Literature
Title | The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Brand |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Title | The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Brand |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1991-10-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521362078 |
Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Russ Castronovo |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 2014-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199355894 |
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will offer a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, offering readers practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
Title | Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | R. Barton Palmer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2007-03-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139461869 |
The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected in this 2007 volume provide a survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction, from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans to Owen Wister's The Virginian. Many of the major works of the American canon are included, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick and Sister Carrie. The starting point of each essay is the literary text itself, moving on to describe specific aspects of the adaptation process, including details of production and reception. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book includes production stills and full filmographies. Together with its companion volume on twentieth-century fiction, the volume offers a comprehensive account of the rich tradition of American literature on screen.
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature
Title | Poe and the Subversion of American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Tally Jr. |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2014-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1623569702 |
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.
The Working Class in American Literature
Title | The Working Class in American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John F. Lavelle |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476643830 |
Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics. Significantly, this book moves the analysis of working-class literature away from the Marxist focus on the relationship between class and the means of production and applies an innovative concept of class based on the sociological studies of humans and society first championed by Max Weber. Of primary concern is the construction of class separation through the concept of in-grouping/out grouping. This book builds upon the theories established in John F. Lavelle's Blue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature (McFarland, 2011) and puts them into practice by examining a diverse set of texts that reveal the complexity of class relations in American society.
Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Title | Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Ries |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2022-06-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311076752X |
Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Teju Cole’s Open City, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.