Описание: Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.
Автор: Wagner-Lawlor Название: Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions ISBN: 1107038359 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107038356 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covering a range of texts from prominent feminist writers and integrating literary analysis with innovative extensions of utopian theory, this book stresses the power of art`s inventiveness in the pursuit of an ethical, hospitable and fundamentally feminist community.
Описание: Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce`s last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud`s description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce`s
Описание: This text seeks to place individual works of now world famous writers within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the World War II, and locates their work within an historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations.
Автор: Horton Название: Contemporary Crisis Fictions ISBN: 1137350199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137350190 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel`s ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project.
Автор: Duvall Название: The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison ISBN: 0312234023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312234027 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall`s book challenges this claim.
Автор: Cushman Stephen Название: Fictions of Form in American Poetry ISBN: 0691602034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691602035 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that Ame
Автор: Margolis Название: Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America ISBN: 1107107806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107107809 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It demonstrates how novels by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs and James Fenimore Cooper attempt to understand a public organized by political discourse and informal social networks.
Автор: O`Gorman Название: Fictions of the War on Terror ISBN: 1137506172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137506177 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book argues that there are a number of contemporary novels that challenge the reductive `us and them` binaries that have been prevalent not only in politics and the global media since 9/11, but also in many works within the emerging genre of `9/11 fiction` itself.
Автор: Chambers Название: British Muslim Fictions ISBN: 0230252338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230252332 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers` work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair.
Автор: Mousoutzanis Aris Название: Fin-de-Siecle Fictions, 1890s-1990s ISBN: 1137263652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137263650 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Fin-de-Siecle Fictions, 1890s-1990s focuses on fin-de-siecle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
Автор: Russett Название: Fictions and Fakes ISBN: 0521123542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521123549 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. In this 2006 book, Margaret Russett demonstrates how Romantic writers distinguished their fictions from the fakes surrounding them. Russett`s interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study offers a major reinterpretation of Romanticism and its continuing influence today.
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