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  • Auto/Biography across the Americas

    Transnational Themes in Life Writing

    Edición de Ricia A. Chansky ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    de Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    de Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    de Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic

    Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures

    Edición de Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edición de Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Multilingualism and Modernity

    Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature

    de Laura Lonsdale ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and ... Leer más

    $80.09 USD

  • Excursions with Thoreau

    Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

    de Professor Edward F. Mooney ...
    Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    de Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • After Translation

    The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

    de Ignacio Infante ...
    Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Shock and Awe

    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    de William V. Spanos ...
    Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

    Interviews with Contemporary Writers

    de Juanita Heredia ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD