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The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera [[electronic resource]]
| The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/355 |
| Collana | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism
American prose literature - History and criticism Travel writing - History Americans - Foreign countries - Historiography Travel in literature National characteristics in literature |
| ISBN |
1-139-80137-6
1-139-00231-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : New worlds and old lands : the travel book and the construction of American identity / Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen -- Beginnings : the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period / Philip Gould -- "Property in the horizon" : landscape and American travel writing / William W. Stowe -- New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie / Christopher Mulvey -- The Mississippi river as site and symbol / Thomas Ruys Smith -- The Southwest and travel writing / Martin Padget -- American travel books about Europe before the Civil War / Alfred Bendixen -- Americans in Europe : Henry James to the present / William Merrill Decker -- Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine / Hilton Obenzinger -- Americans in the larger world : beyond the Pacific coast / Christopher McBride -- South of the border : American travel writing in Latin America / Terry Caesar -- African American travel literature / Virginia Whatley Smith -- American women and travel writing / Susan L. Roberson -- Driving that highway to consciousness : late twentieth-century American travel literature / Deborah Paes de Barros. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996201148803316 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
| Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta |
| Autore | Tosta Antonio Luciano de Andrade |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809/.897 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnicity in literature
Postcolonialism in literature National characteristics in literature Nationalism and literature - America |
| ISBN |
1-61148-755-2
1-61148-756-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798626503321 |
Tosta Antonio Luciano de Andrade
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
| Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta |
| Autore | Tosta Antonio Luciano de Andrade |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809/.897 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnicity in literature
Postcolonialism in literature National characteristics in literature Nationalism and literature - America |
| ISBN |
1-61148-755-2
1-61148-756-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814331703321 |
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Tosta Antonio Luciano de Andrade
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The constitution of English literature : the state, the nation, and the canon / / Michael Gardiner
| The constitution of English literature : the state, the nation, and the canon / / Michael Gardiner |
| Autore | Gardiner Michael <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Bloomsbury Pub. plc, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (153 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics in literature
English literature |
| ISBN |
9781472544384
1472544382 9781780931081 1780931085 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Editorial preface -- Acknowledgements -- The literary form of the British state -- The Greenwich Meridian, Greenwich -- Imperial sovereignty -- Modernism as constitutional conservatism -- Declaring bankruptcy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141820103321 |
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Gardiner Michael <1970->
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| London : , : Bloomsbury Pub. plc, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disaster writing [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / / Mark D. Anderson
| Disaster writing [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / / Mark D. Anderson |
| Autore | Anderson Mark D. <1974-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 860.9/3556 |
| Collana | New World studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Latin American literature - History and criticism
Disasters in literature Catastrophes (Geology) in literature Literature and society - Latin America National characteristics in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-49060-8
9786613585837 0-8139-3203-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Approaching disaster -- Disaster and the "New patria": Cyclone San Zenón and Trujillo's rewriting of the Dominican Republic -- Drought and the literary construction of risk in northeastern Brazil -- Volcanic identities: explosive nationalism and the disastered subject in Central American literature -- Fault lines: Mexico's 1985 earthquake and the politics of narration -- On writing and the nationalization of catastrophe. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461710903321 |
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Anderson Mark D. <1974->
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| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disaster writing [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / / Mark D. Anderson
| Disaster writing [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural politics of catastrophe in Latin America / / Mark D. Anderson |
| Autore | Anderson Mark D. <1974-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 860.9/3556 |
| Collana | New World studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Latin American literature - History and criticism
Disasters in literature Catastrophes (Geology) in literature Literature and society - Latin America National characteristics in literature |
| ISBN |
1-280-49060-8
9786613585837 0-8139-3203-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Approaching disaster -- Disaster and the "New patria": Cyclone San Zenón and Trujillo's rewriting of the Dominican Republic -- Drought and the literary construction of risk in northeastern Brazil -- Volcanic identities: explosive nationalism and the disastered subject in Central American literature -- Fault lines: Mexico's 1985 earthquake and the politics of narration -- On writing and the nationalization of catastrophe. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790118303321 |
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Anderson Mark D. <1974->
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| Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal, Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki
| Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal, Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 894.51109358 |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics in literature
National characteristics in motion pictures Stereotypes (Social psychology) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-5275-1475-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480866803321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal, Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki
| Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal, Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 894.51109358 |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics in literature
National characteristics in motion pictures Stereotypes (Social psychology) |
| ISBN | 1-5275-1475-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Mexicans on the American screen: the discursive construction of ethnic stereotypes in contemporary film and television / Christoph Schubert -- Remember the Alamo: the persistence of cultural stereotypes in literary and filmic representations of the Mexican American borderlands / Jutta Zimmermann -- Racial stereotyping and performing Blackness: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors as post-Black play / Frank Obenland -- Between the need to fit in and the desire to stand out: race, gender, and sexuality in Celeste Ng's Everything I never told you / Brygida Gasztold -- The Palestinians and the Jews: "Disrespected" neighbo(u)rs in Jason Sherman's Nathans plays / Albert Rau -- Gold Mountain and the yellow peril: literary representations of Chinese Canadian relations / Eva Gruber -- Anti-Irish, Welsh and Scottish propaganda in eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman writings / Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup -- "Grand though it might seem in one way, all of it was petty": sectarian conflict and neighbourly relations in short fiction about the Irish troubles / Eva Orth -- Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism / Alan Riach -- History and memory: gendering the other in Jyotirmoyee Devi's The river churning and Amitav Gosh's The shadow lines / Nandini Saha -- "Dwindling into symbols": the politics of stereotyping after the Indian Partition and 9/11 / Christoph Singer -- Good and bad neighbours: metaphors and world making in U.S.-American, German, and Polish literatures / Paula Wojcik -- Between (semi-) Orientalisation and (imaginative) colonisation: on othering the ally in Polish wartime recollections / Joanna Witkowska -- The "Other" in contemporary Slovene literature from the Trieste region: a case study of national stereotypes in minority literatures / Ana Toroš -- Female rebels undoing otherness in Faith Akin's Auf der anderen Seite and Gegen die wand / Funda Bilgen Steinberg. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793184703321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal, Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki
| Disrespected neighbo(u)rs : cultural stereotypes in literature and film / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal, Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 894.51109358 |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics in literature
National characteristics in motion pictures Stereotypes (Social psychology) |
| ISBN | 1-5275-1475-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Mexicans on the American screen: the discursive construction of ethnic stereotypes in contemporary film and television / Christoph Schubert -- Remember the Alamo: the persistence of cultural stereotypes in literary and filmic representations of the Mexican American borderlands / Jutta Zimmermann -- Racial stereotyping and performing Blackness: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors as post-Black play / Frank Obenland -- Between the need to fit in and the desire to stand out: race, gender, and sexuality in Celeste Ng's Everything I never told you / Brygida Gasztold -- The Palestinians and the Jews: "Disrespected" neighbo(u)rs in Jason Sherman's Nathans plays / Albert Rau -- Gold Mountain and the yellow peril: literary representations of Chinese Canadian relations / Eva Gruber -- Anti-Irish, Welsh and Scottish propaganda in eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman writings / Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup -- "Grand though it might seem in one way, all of it was petty": sectarian conflict and neighbourly relations in short fiction about the Irish troubles / Eva Orth -- Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism / Alan Riach -- History and memory: gendering the other in Jyotirmoyee Devi's The river churning and Amitav Gosh's The shadow lines / Nandini Saha -- "Dwindling into symbols": the politics of stereotyping after the Indian Partition and 9/11 / Christoph Singer -- Good and bad neighbours: metaphors and world making in U.S.-American, German, and Polish literatures / Paula Wojcik -- Between (semi-) Orientalisation and (imaginative) colonisation: on othering the ally in Polish wartime recollections / Joanna Witkowska -- The "Other" in contemporary Slovene literature from the Trieste region: a case study of national stereotypes in minority literatures / Ana Toroš -- Female rebels undoing otherness in Faith Akin's Auf der anderen Seite and Gegen die wand / Funda Bilgen Steinberg. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827989003321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emissaries in early modern literature and culture [[electronic resource] ] : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 / / edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani
| Emissaries in early modern literature and culture [[electronic resource] ] : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 / / edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/3582 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CharryBrinda
ShahaniGitanjali |
| Collana | Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 |
| Soggetto topico |
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Colonies in literature Cultural relations in literature English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Literature and society - Great Britain - Colonies - History National characteristics in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-14472-4
1-281-96872-2 9786611968724 0-7546-8242-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 Discourses of Diplomacy; 1 The Shah's Two Ambassadors: The Travels of the Three English Brothers and the Global Early Modern; 2 Of Gifts, Ambassadors, and Copy-cats: Diplomacy, Exchange, and Difference in Early Modern India; 3 Representing the King of Morocco; PART 2 Agents of Exchange; 4 Just Passing: Abbé Carré, Spy, Harem-lord, and 'made in France'; 5 'After My Humble Dutie Remembered': Factors and / versus Merchants
6 Passengers, Spies, Emissaries, and Merchants: Travel and Early Modern English IdentityPART 3 Language and Technologies of Mediation; 7 The Translator as Emissary: Continental Works about the Ottomans in England; 8 The Queen of Onor and her Emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's Dialogue with India; 9 Listening to the Emissary in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's; PART 4 Transmission and Transformation; 10 'Backward and Abysm of Time': Negotiating with the Dead in The Tempest; 11 'Thrown from the Rock': Emissaries as Midwives and Impediments of a New World; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454131003321 |
| Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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