Dreams of a totalitarian utopia [[electronic resource] ] : literary modernism and politics / / Leon Surette |
Autore | Surette Leon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 821.91209 |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - England - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-283-53125-9
9786613843708 0-7735-8665-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dreams and nightmares -- A twentieth-century renaissance -- The war as a symptom of cultural decay -- The response to fascism -- "Things fall apart" -- Looking back. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779256103321 |
Surette Leon | ||
Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dreams of a totalitarian utopia [[electronic resource] ] : literary modernism and politics / / Leon Surette |
Autore | Surette Leon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina | 821.91209 |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - England - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-283-53125-9
9786613843708 0-7735-8665-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dreams and nightmares -- A twentieth-century renaissance -- The war as a symptom of cultural decay -- The response to fascism -- "Things fall apart" -- Looking back. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810080403321 |
Surette Leon | ||
Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Edith Wharton and the politics of race / / by Jennie A. Kassanoff [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Kassanoff Jennie Ann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Race relations in literature Immigrants in literature Race in literature |
ISBN |
1-107-16053-7
1-280-70303-2 0-511-23087-7 0-511-23164-4 0-511-22925-9 0-511-33157-6 0-511-48555-7 0-511-23009-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Invaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters -- "The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth -- "A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree -- The age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef -- Charity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist -- ; Coda : The age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy. |
Altri titoli varianti | Edith Wharton & the Politics of Race |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457916403321 |
Kassanoff Jennie Ann | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Edith Wharton and the politics of race / / by Jennie A. Kassanoff [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Kassanoff Jennie Ann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Race relations in literature Immigrants in literature Race in literature |
ISBN |
1-107-16053-7
1-280-70303-2 0-511-23087-7 0-511-23164-4 0-511-22925-9 0-511-33157-6 0-511-48555-7 0-511-23009-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Invaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters -- "The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth -- "A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree -- The age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef -- Charity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist -- ; Coda : The age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy. |
Altri titoli varianti | Edith Wharton & the Politics of Race |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784315703321 |
Kassanoff Jennie Ann | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Edith Wharton and the politics of race / / by Jennie A. Kassanoff [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Kassanoff Jennie Ann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Race relations in literature Immigrants in literature Race in literature |
ISBN |
1-107-16053-7
1-280-70303-2 0-511-23087-7 0-511-23164-4 0-511-22925-9 0-511-33157-6 0-511-48555-7 0-511-23009-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Invaders and Aborigines : playing Indian in the land of letters -- "The real Lily Bart" : staging race in The house of mirth -- "A close corporation" : the body and the machine in The fruit of the tree -- The age of experience : pragmatism, the Titanic and The reef -- Charity begins at home : Summer and the erotic tourist -- ; Coda : The age of innocence and the Cesnola controversy. |
Altri titoli varianti | Edith Wharton & the Politics of Race |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818216803321 |
Kassanoff Jennie Ann | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The errant art of Moby-Dick : the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies / / William V. Spanos |
Autore | Spanos William V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3 |
Collana | New Americanists |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Sea stories, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Criticism - United States - History - 20th century Canon (Literature) Cold War |
ISBN |
0-8223-1599-8
0-8223-7958-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. MOBY-DICK AND THE AMERICAN CANON -- Posthumanist Theory and Canon Formation -- A Genealogical History of the Reception of Moby-Dick, 1850-1945 -- The New Americanist "Field-Imaginary" and the Vietnam War -- The New Americanists and Moby-Dick -- The Limits of the New Americanist Discourse -- 2. METAPHYSICS AND SPATIAL FORM: MELVILLE'S CRITIQUE OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION -- Tragic Vision and Metaphysics -- Tragic Vision and Moby-Dick -- Melville's Errant Measure: The Testimony of the Fiction Following Moby-Dick -- 3. THE ERRANT ART OF MOBY-DICK -- The Question of Ishmael's Name -- Ishmael's Reading of Father Mapple's Reading of the Jonah Text -- The Centered Circle, the Imperial Gaze, and Abasement -- The American Adam and the Naming of the White Whale -- Ishmael and the Unnaming of Moby Dick -- Ishmael, Theory, and Practice -- The Self as Orphan -- Ishmael and Negative Capability -- Representation and Errancy: The Art of Narration -- Cetology and Discipline -- Political Economy in Moby-Dick: Toward a Counterhegemony -- Repetition and the Indissoluble Continuum of Being: Melville's Polis -- Moby-Dick as Diabolic Book -- The Question of Ishmael's Name: A Repetition -- The Struggle to Appropriate Moby-Dick: Indeterminacy and Positionality -- 4. MOBY-DICK AND THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN OCCASION -- The "Vietnam Syndrome" -- Fredric Jameson and Frank Lentricchia: Reading Michael Herr's Dispatches -- The Postmodernity of the Vietnam War -- Moby-Dick and the Vietnam War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787042503321 |
Spanos William V | ||
Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The errant art of Moby-Dick : the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies / / William V. Spanos |
Autore | Spanos William V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.3 |
Collana | New Americanists |
Soggetto topico |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Sea stories, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Criticism - United States - History - 20th century Canon (Literature) Cold War |
ISBN |
0-8223-1599-8
0-8223-7958-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. MOBY-DICK AND THE AMERICAN CANON -- Posthumanist Theory and Canon Formation -- A Genealogical History of the Reception of Moby-Dick, 1850-1945 -- The New Americanist "Field-Imaginary" and the Vietnam War -- The New Americanists and Moby-Dick -- The Limits of the New Americanist Discourse -- 2. METAPHYSICS AND SPATIAL FORM: MELVILLE'S CRITIQUE OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION -- Tragic Vision and Metaphysics -- Tragic Vision and Moby-Dick -- Melville's Errant Measure: The Testimony of the Fiction Following Moby-Dick -- 3. THE ERRANT ART OF MOBY-DICK -- The Question of Ishmael's Name -- Ishmael's Reading of Father Mapple's Reading of the Jonah Text -- The Centered Circle, the Imperial Gaze, and Abasement -- The American Adam and the Naming of the White Whale -- Ishmael and the Unnaming of Moby Dick -- Ishmael, Theory, and Practice -- The Self as Orphan -- Ishmael and Negative Capability -- Representation and Errancy: The Art of Narration -- Cetology and Discipline -- Political Economy in Moby-Dick: Toward a Counterhegemony -- Repetition and the Indissoluble Continuum of Being: Melville's Polis -- Moby-Dick as Diabolic Book -- The Question of Ishmael's Name: A Repetition -- The Struggle to Appropriate Moby-Dick: Indeterminacy and Positionality -- 4. MOBY-DICK AND THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN OCCASION -- The "Vietnam Syndrome" -- Fredric Jameson and Frank Lentricchia: Reading Michael Herr's Dispatches -- The Postmodernity of the Vietnam War -- Moby-Dick and the Vietnam War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820313303321 |
Spanos William V | ||
Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fifteen jugglers, five believers : literary politics and the poetics of American social movements / / T.V. Reed |
Autore | Reed T. V (Thomas Vernon) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1992] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 810.9/358 |
Collana | The New historicism |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Social movements - United States - History - 20th century Social problems in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-585-35236-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Literary politics and the poetics of social movements -- Aesthetics and the overprivileged: the politics and ethics of representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Invisible movements, black powers: double vision and trickster politics in Invisible Man -- Disrupting the theater of war: Armies of the Night and the New Left siege of the Pentagon -- Dramatic ecofeminism: the women's Pentagon action as theater and theory -- Toward some Postmodernist populisms: a prescriptive postscript. |
Altri titoli varianti | 15 jugglers, 5 believers |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495871903321 |
Reed T. V (Thomas Vernon) | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1992] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Grotesque relations [[electronic resource] ] : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / / Susan Edmunds |
Autore | Edmunds Susan <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.50936 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Modernism (Literature) - United States Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Public welfare - United States - History - 20th century Grotesque in literature Welfare state in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-71809-2
9786611718091 0-19-971353-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" : state-supported capitalism and the secret life of god in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453380103321 |
Edmunds Susan <1961-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Grotesque relations [[electronic resource] ] : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / / Susan Edmunds |
Autore | Edmunds Susan <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.50936 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Modernism (Literature) - United States Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Public welfare - United States - History - 20th century Grotesque in literature Welfare state in literature |
ISBN |
0-19-772436-1
1-281-71809-2 9786611718091 0-19-971353-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" : state-supported capitalism and the secret life of god in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782109603321 |
Edmunds Susan <1961-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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