Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London
1st Edition
By Christopher McBride
June 16, 2009
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 ...
The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism
1st Edition
By Nyla Ali Khan
June 16, 2009
The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the dislocation associated ...
The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson
1st Edition
By Lauren Rusk
June 16, 2009
Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact....
The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton
1st Edition
By Adam Kitzes
June 16, 2009
During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes...
The Spell Cast by Remains: The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature
1st Edition
By Patricia Ross
June 16, 2009
Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather, she states that the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea,...
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
1st Edition
By Sharon DeGraw
June 16, 2009
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also ...
Wilderness City: The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman
1st Edition
By Ted Clontz
June 16, 2009
The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of...
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit
1st Edition
By Caroline J. Smith
April 29, 2009
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which ...
Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray
1st Edition
By Nalin Jayasena
December 11, 2008
Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous ...
Literatura Hispanoamericana: Una Antologia - An Anthology
1st Edition
Edited
By David W. Foster
January 01, 1994
This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural ...