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California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels : exiled from Eden / / Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
| California and the melancholic American identity in Joan Didion's novels : exiled from Eden / / Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice |
| Autore | Nowak-McNeice Katarzyna <1977-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.54 |
| Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
| Soggetto topico | Melancholy in literature |
| ISBN |
0-429-02563-7
0-429-65531-2 0-429-65775-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Joan Didion, the Native Daughter -- Didion the Sacramentan, Californian, Westerner -- Critical Reception -- Joan Didion's Melancholy California -- Part Two: Californian Losses and Melancholia -- The Myth of an Empty Frontier -- How Joan Didion Expelled Herself from Paradise -- Racial Melancholia and the Emergence of Conscience -- The Social Dimension of Melancholia -- 1 The Loss of Nature -- Problems with American Nature -- Problems with the Garden of Eden -- The Paradoxes of Nature -- Writing to Remember and to Redeem -- Pioneers and Ancestors -- Purification through Fire -- The Howling Wilderness: The California Desert -- Turner's and Didion's Frontierless West -- 2 The Loss of History -- Manifest Destiny and Its Fulfillment in California -- Freedom from History -- History, Nature, and Hysteria -- "A History of Accidents" -- "You Can't Call This a Bad Place" -- The Freeway Experience -- Escaping the Meaninglessness of History -- 3 The Loss of Ethics -- The Emergence of Conscience -- The Melancholic Donner Party -- Desire and the Wagon-Train Morality -- Betrayals of Familial Loyalty -- Life as Gambling -- Parental Influence -- Parental Transgressions -- 4 The Loss of Language -- Looking Awry at Conscience and Loss -- The Language of Melancholia -- The Limits of Language -- Estrangement from the Body -- Translation and Betrayal -- The Modern Pioneers and the Loss of Memory -- The Language of Democracy -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910978246303321 |
Nowak-McNeice Katarzyna <1977->
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| New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pynchon's California / / edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller
| Pynchon's California / / edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, Iowa : , : University Of Iowa Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MillerJohn <1959 July 2->
McClintockScott |
| Collana | The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781609382940
1609382943 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911046673103321 |
| Iowa City, Iowa : , : University Of Iowa Press, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal
| Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal |
| Autore | Mexal Stephen J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/004 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
American literature - California - History and criticism Identity (Psychology) in literature Liberalism in literature Politics and literature - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8032-4559-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: liberalism and the language of wilderness -- Theoria and liberal governmentality: travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly -- Narrative and liberal selfhood: Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history -- "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated": social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith -- The limits of liberalism: Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West -- The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism: John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization -- The brute's luck: liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism -- Conclusion: the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462894603321 |
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Mexal Stephen J
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| Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal
| Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal |
| Autore | Mexal Stephen J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/004 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
American literature - California - History and criticism Identity (Psychology) in literature Liberalism in literature Politics and literature - United States |
| ISBN |
1-4962-1134-0
0-8032-4559-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: liberalism and the language of wilderness -- Theoria and liberal governmentality: travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly -- Narrative and liberal selfhood: Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history -- "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated": social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith -- The limits of liberalism: Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West -- The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism: John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization -- The brute's luck: liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism -- Conclusion: the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786114803321 |
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Mexal Stephen J
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| Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal
| Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal |
| Autore | Mexal Stephen J |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/004 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
American literature - California - History and criticism Identity (Psychology) in literature Liberalism in literature Politics and literature - United States |
| ISBN |
9781496211347
1496211340 9780803245594 0803245599 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: liberalism and the language of wilderness -- Theoria and liberal governmentality: travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly -- Narrative and liberal selfhood: Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history -- "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated": social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith -- The limits of liberalism: Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West -- The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism: John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization -- The brute's luck: liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism -- Conclusion: the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910970672103321 |
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Mexal Stephen J
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| Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traces of gold [[electronic resource] ] : California's natural resources and the claim to realism in western American literature / / Nicolas S. Witschi
| Traces of gold [[electronic resource] ] : California's natural resources and the claim to realism in western American literature / / Nicolas S. Witschi |
| Autore | Witschi Nicolas S. <1966-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina |
810.93278
813.009/3278/09794 |
| Collana | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - California - History and criticism
Authors, American - Homes and haunts - California Natural resources - California Nature in literature Realism in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8173-1371-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Genres of Realism; 1. Bret Harte and the Gold Rush Claim to Realism; 2. John of the Mines: Muir's Picturesque Rewrite of the Gold Rush; 3. "Why, Have You Got the Atlantic Monthly Out Here?" W. D. Howells, Realism, and the Idea of the West; 4. 1902: The Generic Imagination in Transition; 5. "I Know What Is Best for You": Post-Howellsian Realism in Mary Austin's Desert Narratives; 6. Hard-Boiled Nature: California, Detective Fiction, and the Limits of Representation; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454751103321 |
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Witschi Nicolas S. <1966->
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| Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Traces of gold [[electronic resource] ] : California's natural resources and the claim to realism in western American literature / / Nicolas S. Witschi
| Traces of gold [[electronic resource] ] : California's natural resources and the claim to realism in western American literature / / Nicolas S. Witschi |
| Autore | Witschi Nicolas S. <1966-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina |
810.93278
813.009/3278/09794 |
| Collana | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - California - History and criticism
Authors, American - Homes and haunts - California Natural resources - California Nature in literature Realism in literature |
| ISBN | 0-8173-1371-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Genres of Realism; 1. Bret Harte and the Gold Rush Claim to Realism; 2. John of the Mines: Muir's Picturesque Rewrite of the Gold Rush; 3. "Why, Have You Got the Atlantic Monthly Out Here?" W. D. Howells, Realism, and the Idea of the West; 4. 1902: The Generic Imagination in Transition; 5. "I Know What Is Best for You": Post-Howellsian Realism in Mary Austin's Desert Narratives; 6. Hard-Boiled Nature: California, Detective Fiction, and the Limits of Representation; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778039603321 |
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Witschi Nicolas S. <1966->
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| Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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