1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462790203321

Autore

Blazek William

Titolo

American Mythologies [[electronic resource] ] : Essays on Contemporary Literature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2005

ISBN

1-78138-610-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GlendayMichael

Disciplina

810.90054

Soggetti

American literature

Indian mythology in literature

Race in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization; 2: Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich; 3: Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer; 4: The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips; 5: The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern; 6: 'Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies

7: 'No Way Back Forever': American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy8: Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor; 9: The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction; 10: Mythologies of 'Ecstatic immersion': America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot; 11: Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz; 12: Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium

13: Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's WritingNotes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In United States culture, myth has played a significant role in



representing the dominant ideologies of the nation as it emerged from colonial dependence to self-created superstate. In the period following the Vietnam War, however, such foundation myth has been radically challenged by the emergence of a range of new myths that set out to express America's multicultural ethos. This essay collection questions the legacy of triumphalist mythology and explores the emergence of a more pluralistic, syncretic mythology that is central to the continual re-imagining of American communities. The thirtee

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461955203321

Titolo

Early childhood care and education workforce [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities : a workshop report / / Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-12328-1

9786613527141

0-309-21935-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

372.21

Soggetti

Early childhood education - United States

Day care centers - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Committee on Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce : A Workshop ; Board on Children, Youth, and Families."

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Defining and Describing the Workforce""; ""3 Economic Perspectives on the Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce""; ""4 How the Workforce Affects Children""; ""5 Building the Workforce and the Profession""; ""6 Workshop Themes""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participant List""; ""Appendix B: Commissioned Papers""



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910346059203321

Titolo

Environmental law & practice review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hyderabad : , : NALSAR University of Law, , 2011-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Environmental law - India

Environmental policy - India

Environmental law

Environmental policy

Law reviews.

Periodicals.

India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico