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  • Reading in a Participatory Culture

    Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom

    Series series Language & Literacy
    Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other.Reading in a Participatory Culturetells the story of an innovative experiment that brought together playwright ... Leer más

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  • A New Companion to Herman Melville

    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman MelvilleA New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, this New Companion offers ... Leer más

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  • Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial ... Leer más

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  • Whole Oceans Away

    Melville and the Pacific

    Edición de Barnum, Wyn Kelley, Christopher Sten ...
    Essays on Melville and the culture of the Pacific“Like the young Melville, those who imagine Polynesia from the perspective of Europe or North America tend to envision a tropical garden set in a shining sea. But the Pacific experienced by a runaway American sailor in an earlier century presents a different picture, and the Pacifi c experienced by indigenous peoples of today a different one yet.”— ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to Herman Melville

    Edición de Wyn Kelley ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century.Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to MelvilleConsiders Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read MelvilleTakes account of the ... Leer más

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  • Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of ... Leer más

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  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    de Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Leer más

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  • Melville

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    If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates thatMelville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his ... Leer más

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  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
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    A History of American Literature

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