American category: 24906 books
by Richard Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.
Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature
Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction,...
Archives of American Time
Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population...
The Age of Auden
Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. Explains the origins and legends of the various Sioux tribesComprehensively covers Red Cloud's War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre. Includes a Bibliography for further reading.Includes a Table of Contents."They...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient...
by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological...
by White Deer of Aautumn
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Native American Book of Wisdom The Circle of Life is an American Indian symbol for the Four Directions. The four colors represent the four stages of life, from childhood to old age; the cycle of seasons, from spring to winter; and the four races of people. Each of the Four Directions symbolizes a...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
American Buffalo, which won both the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play and the Obie Award, is considered a classic of the American theater. Newsweek acclaimed Mamet as the hot young American playwright . . . someone to watch.” The New York Times exclaimed in admiration: The...
African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering...
Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers
Affirmation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance examines the portrayals of Arab masculinities in novels published after September 11, 2001, by women of Arab descent in the United States. The book provides a historical account of the mainstream representations...
Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
New Materialist Representations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the language...
The Importance of Feeling English
American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850?
In...
Writing the Republic
Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American...
Killing the Indian Maiden
Images of Native American Women in Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden"...