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UNINA9910456430803321 |
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Loving Jerome |
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Titolo |
Lost in the Customhouse [[electronic resource] ] : Authorship in the American Renaissance |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1993 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc - 19th century - United States |
Authorship - History - Social aspects - 19th century - United States |
Literature and society - History - 19th century |
Self in literature |
Canon (Literature) |
American Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART ONE; 1. living's Paradigm; 2. Hawthorne's Awakening in the Customhouse; 3. Melville's High on the Seas; 4. Poe's Voyage from Edgartown; 5. Emerson's Beautiful Estate; 6. Thoreau's Quarrel with Emerson; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART TWO; 7. Whitman's Idea of Women; 8. Twain's Cigar-Store Indians; 9. Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10. Henry James's Pearl at a Great Price; 11. Chopin's Twenty-Ninth Bather; 12. Dreiser's Novel About a Nun; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
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In this vigorous challenge to dominant literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the 19th century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of |
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the 19th century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society.From Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson to Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser, Loving fin |
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UNINA9910781466303321 |
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Autore |
Srikanth Rajini |
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Titolo |
Constructing the enemy [[electronic resource] ] : empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law / / Rajini Srikanth |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012 |
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1-283-34162-X |
9786613341624 |
1-4399-0325-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Law and literature - United States |
Empathy in literature |
Aversion in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The landscape of empathy -- Literary imagination and American empathy -- Deserving empathy? renouncing American citizenship -- Hierarchies of horror, levels of abuse: empathy for the internees -- Guantanamo: where lawyers connect with the "worst of the worst." |
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In her engaging book, Constructing the Enemy, Rajini Srikanth probes the concept of empathy, attempting to understand its different types and how it is-or isn't-generated and maintained in specific circumstances.Using literary texts to illuminate issues of power and discussions of law, Srikanth focuses on two case studies- the internment of Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans in World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the detainment of Muslim Americans and individuals from various nations in the U.S. prison at |
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Guantanamo Bay.Through primary doc |
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UNINA9910780121403321 |
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Autore |
Hinkelman Edward G. <1947-> |
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A Short course in international trade documentation [[electronic resource] ] : the key documents of exporting, importing, transportation and banking / / Edward G. Hinkelman with Gilbert Mansergh |
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Novato, Calif., : World Trade Press, 2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Short course in international trade series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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International trade |
Banks and banking, International |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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