"Twentieth-century Americanism" : identity and ideology in Depression-era leftist fiction / / Andrew C. Yerkes |
Autore | Yerkes Andrew C. <1967-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5209358 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Communism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Socialism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Political fiction, American - History and criticism Right and left (Political science) in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Depressions in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-415-86721-5
0-203-95927-2 1-135-49124-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revolutionary Symbolism: Depression-Era Leftist Literature; Chapter One. Identity and Ideology in Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty ; Chapter Two. Disguised Theology of the Master Wizard: Critical and Scientific Marxism at the 1935 American Writers' Congress ; Chapter Three. ""I was not a character in a novel"": Fictionalizing the Self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth; Chapter Four. Totality and John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
Chapter Five. Standardized: Stereotypes of the Depression in the Thirties Novels of West and SteinbeckChapter Six. The Artist's Dialectic: Race Authenticity in the Thirties Novels of Richard Wright; Conclusion: The Power of Negative Thinking; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453797203321 |
Yerkes Andrew C. <1967-, >
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"Twentieth-century Americanism" : identity and ideology in Depression-era leftist fiction / / Andrew C. Yerkes |
Autore | Yerkes Andrew C. <1967-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5209358 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Communism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Socialism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Political fiction, American - History and criticism Right and left (Political science) in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Depressions in literature |
ISBN |
1-135-49131-3
0-415-86721-5 0-203-95927-2 1-135-49124-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Revolutionary Symbolism: Depression-Era Leftist Literature; Chapter One. Identity and Ideology in Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty ; Chapter Two. Disguised Theology of the Master Wizard: Critical and Scientific Marxism at the 1935 American Writers' Congress ; Chapter Three. ""I was not a character in a novel"": Fictionalizing the Self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth; Chapter Four. Totality and John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
Chapter Five. Standardized: Stereotypes of the Depression in the Thirties Novels of West and SteinbeckChapter Six. The Artist's Dialectic: Race Authenticity in the Thirties Novels of Richard Wright; Conclusion: The Power of Negative Thinking; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Altri titoli varianti | 20th century Americanism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790788503321 |
Yerkes Andrew C. <1967-, >
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Activism and the American novel [[electronic resource] ] : religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / / Channette Romero |
Autore | Romero Channette |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/9287 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Religion in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-57598-1
0-8139-3330-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Searching for relations -- Reconstituting the public sphere -- Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe -- Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison -- Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo -- Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich -- Conclusion: Toward a literary activism. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462157203321 |
Romero Channette
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012 | ||
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Activism and the American novel [[electronic resource] ] : religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / / Channette Romero |
Autore | Romero Channette |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/9287 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Religion in literature |
ISBN |
1-283-57598-1
0-8139-3330-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Searching for relations -- Reconstituting the public sphere -- Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe -- Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison -- Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo -- Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich -- Conclusion: Toward a literary activism. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785518303321 |
Romero Channette
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012 | ||
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African American satire [[electronic resource] ] : the sacredly profane novel / / Darryl Dickson-Carr |
Autore | Dickson-Carr Darryl <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509896073 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Political fiction, American - History and criticism Political satire, American - History and criticism Satire, American - History and criticism African Americans in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8262-6374-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450033403321 |
Dickson-Carr Darryl <1968->
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001 | ||
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African American satire [[electronic resource] ] : the sacredly profane novel / / Darryl Dickson-Carr |
Autore | Dickson-Carr Darryl <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509896073 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Political fiction, American - History and criticism Political satire, American - History and criticism Satire, American - History and criticism African Americans in literature |
ISBN | 0-8262-6374-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777370903321 |
Dickson-Carr Darryl <1968->
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001 | ||
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Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique / / John Carlos Rowe |
Autore | Rowe John Carlos |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover, New Hampshire : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/112 |
Collana | Re-Mapping the Transnational. A Dartmouth Series in American Studies |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Liberalism in literature Transnationalism in literature Modernism (Literature) - United States Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61168-814-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Inevitable Intimate Connection; I: Liberal Modernism and Transnationalism; [1] Naming What is Inside: Gertrude Stein's Use of Names in Three Lives; [2] John Dos Passos's Imaginary City in Manhattan Transfer; [3] Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!; [4] Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity; II: Postwar Liberalism and the New Cosmopolitanism; [5] Racism, Fetishism, and the Gift Economy in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
[6] Alien Encounter: Thomas Berger's Neighbors as a Critique of Existential Humanism[7] Buried Alive: The Native American Political Unconscious in Louise Erdrich's Fiction; [8] Neoliberalism and the U.S. Literary Canon: The Example of Philip Roth; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460563903321 |
Rowe John Carlos
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Hanover, New Hampshire : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2011 | ||
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American superrealism [[electronic resource] ] : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s / / Jonathan Veitch |
Autore | Veitch Jonathan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | The Wisconsin project on American writers |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-42416-5
9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455317603321 |
Veitch Jonathan
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 | ||
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American superrealism [[electronic resource] ] : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s / / Jonathan Veitch |
Autore | Veitch Jonathan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.52 |
Collana | The Wisconsin project on American writers |
Soggetto topico |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-42416-5
9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778894603321 |
Veitch Jonathan
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 | ||
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / / Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter <1963-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409355 |
Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Political fiction, American - History and criticism Utopias in literature Social control in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Exceptionalism - United States Social engineering - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-72339-0
1-283-15100-6 9786613151001 0-203-81661-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461388503321 |
Swirski Peter <1963-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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