1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146999203321

Titolo

PalArch's journal of vertebrate palaeontology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : PalArch Foundation, , 2005-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

550

Soggetti

Vertebrates, Fossil

Paleontology

Vertébrés fossiles

Paléontologie

periodicals.

Periodicals

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966276603321

Autore

Hellman Caroline Chamberlin <1979->

Titolo

Children of the Raven and the Whale : Visions and Revisions in American Literature / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2019

ISBN

9780813943619

0813943612

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Disciplina

813/.509

Soggetti

National characteristics, American, in literature

American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism

Cultural pluralism in literature

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Intertextuality

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- "A Walker in the City": Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, and Walt Whitman's Cartographic Legacy -- Literary Custom House: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth -- Short Happy Palimpsest: Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- New York Unearthed: Excavating Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland -- Black Boys and White Whales: Ta-Nehisi Coates's Conversations with Herman Melville, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines ways in which contemporary ethnic American



writers reimagine and revise nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts central to the American literary canon"--