Late Cold War Literature and Culture, Daniel Cordle
Автор: Langum Название: Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture ISBN: 1137465581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137465580 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book considers howscientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of thehuman body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphorfor sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to beangry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers anaccount of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions inreligious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioraldiscussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical andtheological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works ofreligion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated,explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture.
Автор: Karem, Jeff Название: The purloined islands: Caribbean-U.S. crosscurrents in literature and culture 1880-1959 ISBN: 0813930863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813930862 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 83950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution.
Автор: Deer Patrick Название: Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature ISBN: 0198715587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198715580 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 50680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature. Deer explores writers` attempts to find their perspectives on the action in the face of the shattering violence and alienation of total war and an overpowering official war culture.
Автор: Lundblad Michael Название: The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture ISBN: 0190231580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190231583 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Birth of a Jungle probes the historical emergence of the jungle as a discourse in the U.S during the Progressive Era through readings of fiction by Jack London, Frank Norris, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and others alongside nonfiction by Darwin, Freud, Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Jennings Bryan.
Автор: Kral Название: Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture ISBN: 1137401389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137401380 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 65210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.
Автор: Fessenden Tracy Название: Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature ISBN: 0691049645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691049649 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguardin
Автор: Richardson Название: The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture ISBN: 3319319205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319319209 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 79190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging. Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.
Автор: Steiner Название: Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature ISBN: 052111053X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521110532 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She argues that documentary culture (including charters, testaments, patents and seals) enabled writers to think in new ways about the conditions of textual production in late medieval England.
Автор: Hannibal Hamlin Название: Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature ISBN: 0521037069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521037068 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 43290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were `translated` from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England.
Автор: Macleod Jock Название: Literature, Journalism and Liberal Culture, 1886-1916 ISBN: 023039146X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230391468 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siecle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism`s relation to an emerging modernist culture.
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