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  • Towards Turkish American Literature

    Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey

    Series Book 10 - Interamericana
    The author expands the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally ‘commute’ between two national spheres. This segment of Turkish American literature transcends established paradigms of immigrant life-writing, as it includes works by Turkish authors who do not qualify as American permanent residents and were ... Read more

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  • De poeta a editor de poesia

    a trajetória de Machado de Assis para a formação de suas Poesias completas

    Autor dos mais estudados da literatura brasileira, a atuação de Machado de Assis como poeta, no entanto, só mais recentemente tem recebido a devida atenção da crítica. Sendo assim, o estudo de Fabiana Gonçalves vem suprir uma lacuna que de há muito era sentida pelos pesquisadores machadianos. A pesquisa com as Poesias completas, obra publicada em 1901, visou não apenas estudar a produção poética, ... Read more

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  • Green Voices

    Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    The written works of nature's leading advocates—from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few—have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed ... Read more

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  • Literary Transcendentalism

    Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

    Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Read more

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  • Are You Alright Mister Lawrence?

    Elderly gentleman Mister Lawrence is grief stricken by the death of his mother. While reminiscing about the good times he had with her, Mister Lawrence could not get over what he regretted most about his relationship with his mom. He wished that he could remember what his mom looks like. He has always had a sense of what she is like from his youth before going blind, but no mental image to hold on ... Read more

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  • The Subject(s) of Human Rights

    Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique

    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia, Asian Americans have consistently functioned as subordinated “subjects” of human rights violations. The Subject(s) of Human Rights brings together scholars from North ... Read more

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  • What Literature Knows

    Forays into Literary Knowledge Production

    Series Book 2 - Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)
    This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss ... Read more

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  • Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

    Series series Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
    This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume)

    Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

    The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely ... Read more

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  • Different Dispatches

    Journalism in American Modernist Prose

    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural ... Read more

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  • Understanding Don DeLillo

    by Henry Veggian ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half-century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novels, including his breakthrough work White Noise (1985) and Pulitzer Prize finalists Mao II (1992) and ... Read more

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  • Neither Fugitive nor Free

    Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel

    by Edlie L. Wong ...
    Series Book 8 - America and the Long 19th Century
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders ... Read more

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  • Sustaining New Orleans

    Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City

    This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice. ... Read more

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  • Reading Up

    Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

    by Amy Blair ...
    A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is “reading up.” Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader ... Read more

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  • Heaven's Interpreters

    Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Ashley Reed ...
    In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was ... Read more

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  • Skyscraping Frontiers

    The Skyscraper as Heterotopia in the 20th-Century American Novel and Film

    Series Book 4 - Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)
    As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readings, this study models the skyscraper not only as a Foucauldian heterotopia, but also as a complex ... Read more

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  • Empire’s Proxy

    American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines

    by Meg Wesling ...
    Series Book 1 - American Literatures Initiative
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesIn the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the ... Read more

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  • Black Futurists In The Information Age: Vision Of A 21st Century Technological Renaissance

    Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, they are seeking to raise our consciousness to the accelerating historic transformations that are taking place during the 1990s, in an effort to spotlight the significance of technological change as a ... Read more

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  • Undisciplined

    Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

    by Nihad Farooq ...
    Series Book 9 - America and the Long 19th Century
    In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq’s Undisciplined encourages ... Read more

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  • Henry James: The Complete Novels

    by Henry James ...
    This volume collects the complete novels of Henry James (in the chronological order of their original publication): - Watch and Ward - Roderick Hudson - The American - The Europeans - Confidence - Washington Square - The Portrait of a Lady - The Bostonians - The Princess Casamassima - The Reverberator - The Tragic Muse - The Other House - The Spoils of Poynton - What Maisie Knew - The Awkward Age ... Read more

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  • Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square

    The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture

    by Belinda Kong ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief.Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event ... Read more

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  • Card Carrying Ace of Spades

    Series Book 8 - Rise of the Hystericals
    We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquote, "Dominant"'s insipid bullshit. We will no longer sit up here and be squashed like cockroaches beneath the feet of the ignorant, slaughtered like cattle of a fresh kill. Because if it's one true thing ... Read more

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  • The Colonizer Abroad

    Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London

    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's ... Read more

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  • Meaning and Interpretation

    Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge

    by G. L. Hagberg ...
    'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question—which initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of language—is significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as well. ... Read more

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