Описание: Revealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.
Автор: Deborah Cohn Название: The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism During ISBN: 0826518044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826518040 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11504.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural politics played an active role in disseminating their work in the United States. Deborah Cohn documents how U.S. universities, book and journal publishers, philanthropic organisations, cultural centres, and authors co-ordinated their efforts to bring Latin American literature to a U.S. reading public during this period, when interest in the region was heightened by the Cuban Revolution. She also traces the connections between the endeavours of private organisations and official foreign policy goals. </p> <p>The high level of interest in Latin America paradoxically led the U.S. government to restrict these authors' physical presence in the United States through the McCarran-Walter Act's immigration blacklist, even as cultural organisations cultivated the exchange of ideas with writers and sought to market translations of their work for the U.S. market. </p>
Описание: Dawn F. Stinchcomb identifies and examines the sensitive nature of racism in the literature of the Dominican Republic, a problematic aspect of the country`s heritage from the contact period to the present.
Описание: Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She shows that over time black women have used their bodily presence to complicate and challenge a migratory process often forced upon them by men or patriarchal society.
Описание: Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover`s white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI`s hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau`s intimate
Описание: This study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers` conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American literary history, from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison, and engages with a variety of canonical and lesser-known writers.
Автор: Marcus Greil, Sollors Werner Название: A New Literary History of America ISBN: 0674064100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674064102 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this history brings together the nation`s many voices.
Автор: Salmon Название: The Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession ISBN: 1107039622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107039629 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Richard Salmon offers a major study of the development of professional authorship in Victorian Britain. Drawing on detailed readings of significant writers, including Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Martineau and Barrett-Browning, this book traces the emergence of authorship as a new form of professional identity from the 1820s to the 1850s.
Автор: Wallace Cynthia R. Название: Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering ISBN: 0231173695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231173698 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality
Автор: Nichols Название: Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 1108074146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108074148 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745-1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives `an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century`.
Автор: Egan Название: The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007–72) ISBN: 0521101549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521101547 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz`u `songs`. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man`s literary talent is manifested in different genres.
Автор: Kratzmann Название: Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430–1550 ISBN: 0521135575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521135573 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4909.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a study of Anglo-Scottish literary relations in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It attempts to show how those poets who have frequently been called `Scottish Chaucerians` (James I, Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas) drew upon English writing, and reveals that poetry in Scotland during this time was both rich and extremely varied.
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