Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, History, and Politics in the Humanities
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By William E. Cain, William E. Cain
August 04, 2016
Three extensively revised essays by Mailloux, an influential proponent of cultural studies, describe his approach in depth. Following are ten essays, nine of them written specifically for this volume, by scholars who offer various perspectives on Mailloux's ideas. Each essayist weighs the strengths...
On the Winds and Waves of Imagination: Transnational Feminism and Literature
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By Constance S. Richards
July 26, 2016
First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national ...
Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate
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By Jan Gorak
June 22, 2016
Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society....
Literary Influence and African-American Writers: Collected Essays
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By Tracy Mishkin
March 03, 2016
First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at ...
Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women
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By Corinne H. Dale
June 23, 2015
This collection of essays explores the intertwining social conditions of ethnicity and gender as they are represented in short stories by contemporary American women. The introduction to the collection explains the theoretical understanding of gender and ethnicity as social constructions that ...
Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach
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By Lisa Rado
May 07, 2015
Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's contributions to modernist culture, and explore how ...
Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism
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By Reynolds J. Scott-Childress
May 07, 2015
This important book addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical and disciplinary vantage points. Beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War and unfolding ...
Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, and Interpretation
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By Philip G. Cohen
May 07, 2015
These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual instability and textual theory, interpretation, and pedagogy.What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a different ...
British Marxist Criticism
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By Victor N. Paananen
December 22, 2014
First Published in 2000. British Marxist Criticism provides selective but extensive annotated bibliographies, introductory essays, and important pieces of work from each of eight British critics who sought to explain literary production according to the principles of Marxism....
Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers
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By Amal Amireh, Lisa Suhair Majaj
July 27, 2000
This book explores the problematic of reading and writing about third world women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this volume examine the reception, both academic and popular, of women writers from India, Bangladesh, ...
American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays
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By Julie Brown
May 03, 2000
This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss ...
The New Romanticism: A Collection of Critical Essays
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By Eberhard Alsen
April 20, 2000
The New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the twentieth-century. Includes three classic essays by Saul bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison....