1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787855303321

Titolo

Reconsidering Longfellow / / edited by Christoph Irmscher and Robert Arbour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61147-674-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

811/.3

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Quotations; Introduction; Chapter One: Longfellow's Conversations: Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early Poetry; Chapter Two: Feeling, Controlling, and Transcending: The Negotiation of Sentiment in Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman; Chapter Three: "A Love of Heaven and Virtue": Why Longfellow Sentimentalizes Death; Chapter Four: The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American Literature; Chapter Five: The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow's Evangeline; Chapter Six: Westwärts! Westwärts!; Chapter Seven: The Cultural Career of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"

Chapter Eight: Figures Other Than Figures of Speech: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Pursuit of Financial SuccessChapter Nine: "Not from the Grand Old Masters": The Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow; Chapter Ten: Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature Curriculum; Selected Bibliography; Index; Note on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow's work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Many of the essays rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfel



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971219103321

Autore

Denzin Norman K

Titolo

Qualitative Inquiry Outside the Academy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, : Left Coast Press, 2014

ISBN

1-315-42133-X

1-61132-897-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Intl Congress of Qualitative Inquiry ; ; v.9

Altri autori (Persone)

GiardinaMichael D

Disciplina

001.4

001.4/2

001.42

Soggetti

Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)

Qualitative research

Social advocacy

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Qualitative Inquiry �Outside� the Academy - Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina""; ""Part I: Public""; ""1. Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University - Henry A. Giroux""; ""2. Audience Matters - Laurel Richardson""; ""Part II: With""; ""3. Politics and Public Policy, Social Justice, and Qualitative Research - Maria Mayan and Christine Daum""; ""4. Thinking Through Theory: Contemplating Indigenous Situated Research and Policy - Margaret Kovach""

""13. (Re)Membering the Grandmothers: Theorizing Poetry to (Re)Think the Purposes of Black Educationand Research - Cynthia B. Dillard""""14. Ghosts, Traces, Sediments, and Accomplices in Psychotherapeutic Dialogue with Sue and Gracie - Jane Speedy""; ""15. Stampedagogy - Brian Rusted""; ""16. Marxist Methodology for Critical Collaborative Inquiry - Mirka Koro-Ljungberg and Fred Boateng""; ""Index""; ""About the Authors""

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of plenary addresses and other key presentations from the 2013 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry shows how scholars convert inquiry into spaces of advocacy in the outside world. The



original chapters engage in debate on how qualitative research can be best used to advance the causes of social justice while addressing racial, ethnic, gender, and environmental disparities in education, welfare, and health care. Twenty contributors from six countries and multiple academic disciplines present models, cases, and experiences to show how qualitative research can be used as an