Novels in the time of democratic writing : the American example / / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse |
Autore | Armstrong Nancy <1938-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 813.209 |
Collana | Haney Foundation series |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Democracy in literature Comparative literature - American and English Comparative literature - English and American Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 18th century Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8122-9461-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Argumentum ad Populum -- Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing -- Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract -- Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing -- Chapter 4. Dispersal -- Chapter 5. Population -- Chapter 6. Conversion -- Chapter 7. Hubs -- Chapter 8. Anamorphosis -- Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466849703321 |
Armstrong Nancy <1938-> | ||
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Novels in the time of democratic writing : the American example / / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse |
Autore | Armstrong Nancy <1938-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 813.209 |
Collana | Haney Foundation series |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Democracy in literature Comparative literature - American and English Comparative literature - English and American Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 18th century Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Literature |
ISBN | 0-8122-9461-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Argumentum ad Populum -- Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing -- Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract -- Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing -- Chapter 4. Dispersal -- Chapter 5. Population -- Chapter 6. Conversion -- Chapter 7. Hubs -- Chapter 8. Anamorphosis -- Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796599803321 |
Armstrong Nancy <1938-> | ||
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Novels in the time of democratic writing : the American example / / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse |
Autore | Armstrong Nancy <1938-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 813.209 |
Collana | Haney Foundation series |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Democracy in literature Comparative literature - American and English Comparative literature - English and American Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 18th century Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Literature |
ISBN | 0-8122-9461-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Argumentum ad Populum -- Chapter 1. Style in the Time of Epidemic Writing -- Chapter 2. Refiguring the Social Contract -- Chapter 3. Novels as a Form of Democratic Writing -- Chapter 4. Dispersal -- Chapter 5. Population -- Chapter 6. Conversion -- Chapter 7. Hubs -- Chapter 8. Anamorphosis -- Chapter 9. Becoming National Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816704203321 |
Armstrong Nancy <1938-> | ||
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Politics in Gotham : the Batman universe and political thought / / Damien K. Picariello, editor |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Springer Science+Business Media, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Disciplina | 741.5973 |
Collana | Gale eBooks |
Soggetto topico |
Politics in literature
Politics in motion pictures Batman (Fictitious character) Politics and culture Democracy in literature |
ISBN | 3-030-05776-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: I Don’t Want Batman as President -- 2. Justice Unmasked -- 3. The Dark Knight: Toward a Democratic Tragedy -- 4. The Heroism of ‘Sober Expectations’ -- 5. Deconstructing Batman’s Legitimacy: The Radical Political Critique of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Cycle -- 6. Batman the Noble Dog: The Costs of Spiritedness for the Individual and Society -- 7. The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City -- 8. The Lion, the Fox, and the Bat: The Animal Nature of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Batman -- 9. Criminal Justice in Gotham: The Role of the Dark Knight -- 10. The Retributive Knight -- 11. Politics as ‘the Product of Everything You Fear’: Scarecrow as Phobia Entrepreneur -- 12. #FAKENEWS in Gotham City -- 13. Batgirls and the Politics of Feminism in Gotham -- 14. Dawn of Justice: Accountability, Revisioning, and Batman in the 21st Century. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910337862403321 |
New York, New York : , : Springer Science+Business Media, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pragmatic Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining American democracy / / Stephen John Mack |
Autore | Mack Stephen John <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.3 |
Collana | The Iowa Whitman series |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy in literature
Patriotic poetry, American - History and criticism Political poetry, American - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-58729-424-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency
Part II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450801903321 |
Mack Stephen John <1952-> | ||
Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pragmatic Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining American democracy / / Stephen John Mack |
Autore | Mack Stephen John <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.3 |
Collana | The Iowa Whitman series |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy in literature
Patriotic poetry, American - History and criticism Political poetry, American - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-58729-424-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency
Part II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777591703321 |
Mack Stephen John <1952-> | ||
Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The pragmatic Whitman : reimagining American democracy / / Stephen John Mack |
Autore | Mack Stephen John <1952-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina |
811/.3
811.3 |
Collana | The Iowa Whitman series |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy in literature
Patriotic poetry, American - History and criticism Political poetry, American - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-58729-424-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency
Part II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819509803321 |
Mack Stephen John <1952-> | ||
Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 810.9/0054 |
Collana | Print culture and the history of the book |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in literature Politics and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Citizenship in literature Democracy in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-469-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". |
Altri titoli varianti | Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467779303321 |
Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> | ||
Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 810.9/0054 |
Collana | Print culture and the history of the book |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in literature Politics and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Citizenship in literature Democracy in literature |
ISBN | 1-61376-469-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". |
Altri titoli varianti | Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794768503321 |
Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> | ||
Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 810.9/0054 |
Collana | Print culture and the history of the book |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in literature Politics and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Citizenship in literature Democracy in literature |
ISBN | 1-61376-469-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". |
Altri titoli varianti | Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811495003321 |
Matthews Kristin L. <1973-> | ||
Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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