[PDF] Ideology And Classic American Literature eBook

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521273091

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For more than a decade, Americanists have been concerned with the problem of ideology, and have undertaken a broad reassessment of American literature and culture. This volume brings together some of the best work in this area.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521585712

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Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.

Author : Thomas E. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1316297837

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Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception - including sexuality, politics, gender and ethnicity - this book explores the ideological motivations behind contemporary American allusions to the classical world. Ultimately, this kaleidoscope of receptions - from calls for marriage equality to examinations of gang violence to passionate pleas for peace (or war) - reveals a 'classical antiquity' that reconfigures itself daily, as modernity explains itself to itself through ever-expanding technologies and media. Antiquity Now thus examines the often-surprising redeployment of the art and literature of the ancient world, a geography charged with especial value in the contemporary imagination.

Author : Henry Nash Smith
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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This collection of essays in memory of Henry Nash Smith considers American literature as both a product and an agent of culture and ideology. Included are a biographical essay on Henry Nash Smith by historian Henry F. May and «Mark Twain, Ritual Clown, » an important late essay by Smith, published here for the first time. Other distinguished contributors are Thomas F. Gossett, Eric J. Sundquist, Leo Marx, David Leverenz, Beverly R. Voloshin, Daniel Aaron, R.W.B. Lewis, Annette Kolodny, Sybil Weir, Larzer Ziff, Lorne Fienberg, Susan Gillman, Kermit Vanderbilt, and John S. Wright.

Author : Emory Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521520416

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The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.

Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231058950

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Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.

Author : David Harlan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226316157

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American historical writing has traditionally been one of our primary forms of moral reflection. However, David Harlan argues that in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential and took up the methodology of the social sciences. In this provocative new book, Harlan describes the reasons for this turn to objectivity and professionalism, explains why it failed, and examines the emergence of a New Traditionalism in American historical writing. Part One, "The Legacy of the Sixties," describes the impact of literary theory in the 1970s and beyond, the rise of women's history, the various forms of ideological analysis developed by historians on the left, and the crippling obsession with professionalism in the 1980s. Part Two, "The Renewal of American Historical Writing," focuses on the contributions of John Patrick Diggins, Hayden White, Richard Rorty, Elaine Showalter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and others. Harlan argues that at the end of the twentieth century American historical writing is perfectly poised to become what it once was: not one of the social sciences in historical costume, but a form of moral reflection that speaks to all Americans. "[A] wholly admirable work. This book will be talked about for years."—Library Journal