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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philip goldstein”
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  • The Theory and Practice of Reception Study

    Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison

    by Philip Goldstein ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, the book discusses theories of reader-response and reception study and elaborates a theory of reception study ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • New Directions in American Reception Study

    by Philip Goldstein, James L. Machor ...
    Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-- literature, television shows, movies, and newspapers--meaningful. This collection emphasizes that new diversity, examining movies, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Reading as Democracy in Crisis

    Interpretation, Theory, History

    by James Rovira, Cassandra Falke, Meredith N. Sinclair, Aglaia Maretta Venters, Steve Wexler, Roger Whitson, Philip Goldstein, Darcie Rives-East ...
    Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida; Judith Butler; and Object Oriented Ontology and Digital ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Still Wild

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    by Larry McMurtry ...
    Larry McMurtry—the preeminent chronicler of the American West—celebrates the best of Western short fiction in this anthology that represents the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier, featuring authors such as Jack Kerouac, Annie Proulx, and more.Featuring a veritable Who’s Who of the century’s most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

    by Joel Dinerstein ...
    An "entertaining" study of the enduring concept of coolness, and the mix of cultures and historical events that shaped it ( The New York Times).Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a ... Read more

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  • Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

    by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Series series Continuum Literary Studies
    Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work

    The Making of "The Great Gatsby"

    by Dr. Horst H. Kruse ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby occupies a preeminent place in American letters. Scholars have argued that Jay Gatsby is, in fact, the embodiment of American cultural and social aspiration. Though The Great Gatsby has been studied in detail since its publication, both readers and scholars have continued to speculate about Fitzgerald’s sources of inspiration.The essays in F. Scott Fitzgerald ... Read more

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  • Natural Aristocracy

    History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner

    by Kevin Railey ...
    Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces that surrounded his life, Railey explores the interrelationships between American history and ... Read more

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  • Reading Faulkner

    Absalom, Absalom!

    by Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk ...
    Series series Reading Faulkner Series
    Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." On another ... Read more

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  • Magical Muse

    Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

    by Ralph F. Voss, Philip C. Kolin, Albert J. Devlin, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Robert Siegel, Nancy M. Tischler, Allean Hale, Barbara M. Harris, Michael Paller, Dan Sullivan0, George W. Crandell1, W. Kenneth Holditch2, Jackson R. Bryer3 ...
    In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems

    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...
    Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

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