Ars Americana, ars politica [[electronic resource] ] : partisan expression in contemporary American literature and culture / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics in literature Authors, American - 20th century - Political and social views |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7735-8059-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1960s: The return of the Black Panther: Irving Wallace's The man -- 1970s: The life and death of Walter Bodmor Nixon: Richard Condon's Death of a politician -- 1980s: The whores r us: P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of whores -- 1990s: That dirty word, socialism: Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- 2000s: Truth or dare? Michael Moore's Stupid white men ... and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! -- Conclusion: political art, American art. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461607203321 |
Swirski Peter <1963->
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010 | ||
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Ars Americana, ars politica [[electronic resource] ] : partisan expression in contemporary American literature and culture / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics in literature Authors, American - 20th century - Political and social views |
ISBN | 0-7735-8059-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1960s: The return of the Black Panther: Irving Wallace's The man -- 1970s: The life and death of Walter Bodmor Nixon: Richard Condon's Death of a politician -- 1980s: The whores r us: P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of whores -- 1990s: That dirty word, socialism: Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- 2000s: Truth or dare? Michael Moore's Stupid white men ... and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! -- Conclusion: political art, American art. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790435003321 |
Swirski Peter <1963->
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010 | ||
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Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 / / Lenora Warren |
Autore | Warren Lenora |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 p.) : 2 |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Collana | Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 |
Soggetto topico |
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Abolitionists in literature Antislavery movements in literature Slave rebellions in literature Slavery in literature American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-68448-021-3 |
Classificazione | LIT004020SOC054000LIT004120LIT004040 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1. Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- 2. Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility -- 3. Joseph Cinque, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing -- 4. The Black and White Sailor: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode -- Coda. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793920503321 |
Warren Lenora
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2018 | ||
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A pinnacle of feeling [[electronic resource] ] : American literature and presidential government / / Sean McCann |
Autore | McCann Sean <1962-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Collana | 20/21 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Executive power in literature Presidents in literature Executive power - Philosophy Authors, American - 20th century - Political and social views |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15826-0
9786612158261 1-4008-2890-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction. The Executive Disease: Presidential Power and Literary Imagination -- Chapter One. Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership -- Chapter Two. Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal -- Chapter Three. The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties -- Chapter Four. Come Home, America: Vietnam And The End Of The Progressive Presidency -- Epilogue. Philip Roth And The Waning And Waxing Of Political Time -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455240303321 |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2008 | ||
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A pinnacle of feeling [[electronic resource] ] : American literature and presidential government / / Sean McCann |
Autore | McCann Sean <1962-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Collana | 20/21 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Executive power in literature Presidents in literature Executive power - Philosophy Authors, American - 20th century - Political and social views |
ISBN |
1-282-15826-0
9786612158261 1-4008-2890-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction. The Executive Disease: Presidential Power and Literary Imagination -- Chapter One. Masters of Their Constitution: Gertrude Stein and the Promise of Progressive Leadership -- Chapter Two. Governable Beasts: Hurston, Roth, and the New Deal -- Chapter Three. The Myth of the Public Interest: Pluralism and Presidentialism in the Fifties -- Chapter Four. Come Home, America: Vietnam And The End Of The Progressive Presidency -- Epilogue. Philip Roth And The Waning And Waxing Of Political Time -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778220003321 |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2008 | ||
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A Route 66 companion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David King Dunaway ; foreword by Michael Wallis ; illustrations by Robert Waldmire |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DunawayDavid King
WaldmireRobert |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-292-73573-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Foreword: America's Road by Michael Wallis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. Railroads and the Prehistory of Route 66""; ""Dave Edmunds, Buffalo Hunting on Route 66""; ""Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies""; ""Count de Pourtalès, On the Western Tour with Washington Irving""; ""Edward F. Beale, The Journals of the Superintendent of the Wagon World""; ""Michael Amundson, Railroaders' Route 66""; ""Hal G. Evarts, Jr., One Night in the Red Dog Saloon""; ""Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail""; ""Man Susanyatame, Recalling Route 66's Trail of Tears""; ""A Bioregional Approach to Route 66: An Introduction""
""II. Prairie 66: Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas""""Vachel Lindsay, The Santa Fe Trail""; ""Carolyn Wheat, Too Many Midnights""; ""Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy""; ""Jay Smith, The Boy: Okie Passage on Route 66""; ""David August, Blind Corner""; ""James H. Cobb, West on 66""; ""III. Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas""; ""Greg Malak, Working with Will""; ""Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers""; ""Lance Henson, Back Road 66""; ""Karen Hesse, Wild Boy of the Road""; ""Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book""; ""Gary Phillips, '53 Buick""; ""Edmond Threatt, Black on 66"" ""Michael Wallis, Mr. Route 66""""Robert M. Davis, Kicking 66""; ""Delbert Trew, On Route 66 in Texas""; ""Stanley Marsh III, Cadillac Ranch""; ""IV. Mountain 66: New Mexico and Arizona""; ""Raymond Wierth and Joe Miller, Mining Along 66""; ""Harvey Fergusson, Hot Saturday""; ""Paul Horgan, The Thin Mountain Air""; ""Mary Toya, Laguna Exile""; ""John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath""; ""Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony""; ""Lucille Fletcher, The Hitch-Hiker""; ""Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare""; ""Rudolfo Anaya, Hispanic on Route 66""; ""V. Desert and Coastal 66: California"" ""Ed Gorman, Gunslinger""""Raymond Chandler, The High Window""; ""Louis Owens, Indian Farm-Workers on 66""; ""Ry Cooder, The Music of 66""; ""Robert Ervin, Soul in the Desert""; ""Earlene Fowler, Blue Time""; ""Sylvia Plath, Sleep in the Mojave Desert""; ""Joan Didion, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream""; ""Ross MacDonald, Sleeping Beauty""; ""VI. The Future of 66""; ""Peter Friedman, A Rocket Scientist Looks at Route 66's Future""; ""Fredric Brown, Rogue in Space""; ""Aldous Huxley, Brave New World""; ""A Select Route 66 Bibliography""; ""Credits""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462808303321 |
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012 | ||
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A Route 66 companion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David King Dunaway ; foreword by Michael Wallis ; illustrations by Robert Waldmire |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DunawayDavid King
WaldmireRobert |
Soggetto topico | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General |
ISBN | 0-292-73573-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Foreword: America's Road by Michael Wallis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. Railroads and the Prehistory of Route 66""; ""Dave Edmunds, Buffalo Hunting on Route 66""; ""Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies""; ""Count de Pourtalès, On the Western Tour with Washington Irving""; ""Edward F. Beale, The Journals of the Superintendent of the Wagon World""; ""Michael Amundson, Railroaders' Route 66""; ""Hal G. Evarts, Jr., One Night in the Red Dog Saloon""; ""Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail""; ""Man Susanyatame, Recalling Route 66's Trail of Tears""; ""A Bioregional Approach to Route 66: An Introduction""
""II. Prairie 66: Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas""""Vachel Lindsay, The Santa Fe Trail""; ""Carolyn Wheat, Too Many Midnights""; ""Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy""; ""Jay Smith, The Boy: Okie Passage on Route 66""; ""David August, Blind Corner""; ""James H. Cobb, West on 66""; ""III. Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas""; ""Greg Malak, Working with Will""; ""Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers""; ""Lance Henson, Back Road 66""; ""Karen Hesse, Wild Boy of the Road""; ""Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book""; ""Gary Phillips, '53 Buick""; ""Edmond Threatt, Black on 66"" ""Michael Wallis, Mr. Route 66""""Robert M. Davis, Kicking 66""; ""Delbert Trew, On Route 66 in Texas""; ""Stanley Marsh III, Cadillac Ranch""; ""IV. Mountain 66: New Mexico and Arizona""; ""Raymond Wierth and Joe Miller, Mining Along 66""; ""Harvey Fergusson, Hot Saturday""; ""Paul Horgan, The Thin Mountain Air""; ""Mary Toya, Laguna Exile""; ""John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath""; ""Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony""; ""Lucille Fletcher, The Hitch-Hiker""; ""Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare""; ""Rudolfo Anaya, Hispanic on Route 66""; ""V. Desert and Coastal 66: California"" ""Ed Gorman, Gunslinger""""Raymond Chandler, The High Window""; ""Louis Owens, Indian Farm-Workers on 66""; ""Ry Cooder, The Music of 66""; ""Robert Ervin, Soul in the Desert""; ""Earlene Fowler, Blue Time""; ""Sylvia Plath, Sleep in the Mojave Desert""; ""Joan Didion, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream""; ""Ross MacDonald, Sleeping Beauty""; ""VI. The Future of 66""; ""Peter Friedman, A Rocket Scientist Looks at Route 66's Future""; ""Fredric Brown, Rogue in Space""; ""Aldous Huxley, Brave New World""; ""A Select Route 66 Bibliography""; ""Credits""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786174603321 |
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012 | ||
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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / / David Wyatt |
Autore | Wyatt David <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 400 p. ) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
History in literature Literature and history - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8018-9923-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464255403321 |
Wyatt David <1948->
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010 | ||
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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / / David Wyatt |
Autore | Wyatt David <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 400 p. ) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
History in literature Literature and history - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-8018-9923-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788362103321 |
Wyatt David <1948->
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010 | ||
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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / / David Wyatt |
Autore | Wyatt David <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 400 p. ) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
History in literature Literature and history - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-8018-9923-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817620403321 |
Wyatt David <1948->
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010 | ||
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