1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454181903321

Autore

Eldridge David (David Nicholas), <1973->

Titolo

American culture in the 1930s / / David Eldridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-94766-0

9786611947668

0-7486-2977-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Twentieth-Century American Culture

Disciplina

306.097309043

Soggetti

Culture

Culture - United States

Electronic books.

United States Civilization 1918-1945

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

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930's American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1 Literature and Drama; Chapter 2 Film and Photography; Chapter 3 Music and Radio; Chapter 4 Art and Design; Chapter 5 New Deal Culture; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930's; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930's America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930's American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966304603321

Autore

Carter Sarah

Titolo

Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature / / by S. Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

9786613124562

9781283124560

1283124564

9780230306073

0230306071

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

820.9353809031

Soggetti

European literature

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Fiction

Poetry

European Literature

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Fiction Literature

Poetry and Poetics

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

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Rape, Revenge, and Verse: Philomela; 3 'Chastity's first martyr': Lucrece; 4 'That female wanton boy': Ganymede, Iphis, and Myths of Same Sex Desire; 5 'Not perfect boy nor perfect wench': Hermaphroditus; 6 Objects of Desire: Pygmalion, Myrrha, Adonis; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality.