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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462894603321

Autore

Mexal Stephen J

Titolo

Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8032-4559-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/004

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American literature - California - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Liberalism in literature

Politics and literature - United States

Electronic books.

California In literature

West (U.S.) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: liberalism and the language of wilderness -- Theoria and liberal governmentality: travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly -- Narrative and liberal selfhood: Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history -- "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated": social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith -- The limits of liberalism: Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West -- The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism: John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization -- The brute's luck: liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism -- Conclusion: the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West.

Sommario/riassunto

<DIV>Stephen J. Mexal is an associate professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. </DIV>



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910547699603321

Autore

Dulichenko Aleksandr

Titolo

Славистика в Эстонии и за ее пределами

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tartu, : University of Tartu Press, 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Acta Slavica Estonica ; 3

Soggetti

Linguistics

Slavic (Slavonic) languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Russo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume consists of three parts. The first part contains papers of the National Committee of Estonian Slavicists for the 15th International Congress of Slavicists in Minsk, Belarus, focusing on current problems in Slavic linguistics. Papers in the second and third part of the volume are dedicated to Slavic lexicology and lexicography, and the problems of Slavic syntax and translation studies, respectively. Papers are published in Russian, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Yugoslav-Rusyn.