Resources for American Literary Study
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404646325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A clothbound annual that includes book reviews.
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404646325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A clothbound annual that includes book reviews.
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404646332
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780404646288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Founded in 1971, this resource continues to serve as a key venue for archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literature. It features the series Prospects, which offers expert recommendations for the future study of American authors.
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404646301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Founded in 1971, Resources for American Literary Study soon became a favored venue for archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literature. Recent issues have featured unpublished letters from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, Alice James, Willa Cather, and Nathanael West; analyses of manuscripts by Thoreau, Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill; checklists of letters by John Cheever; and, a Prospects section with expert recommendations for the future study of authors ranging from Poe to Malamud. Book reviews are a prominent feature - over 20 in this volume. RALS became a clothbound annual with volume 27 and is published by AMS Press. Everything else that has made the journal a force in literary study for the past thirty years is in place.
Author: Laurie Grobman
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2015-02-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1603292039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Service learning can help students develop a sense of civic responsibility and commitment, often while addressing pressing community needs. One goal of literary studies is to understand the ethical dimensions of the world, and thus service learning, by broadening the environments students consider, is well suited to the literature classroom. Whether through a public literacy project that demonstrates the relevance of literary study or community-based research that brings literary theory to life, student collaboration with community partners brings social awareness to the study of literary texts and helps students and teachers engage literature in new ways. In their introduction, the volume editors trace the history of service learning in the United States, including the debate about literature's role, and outline the best practices of the pedagogy. The essays that follow cover American, English, and world literature; creative nonfiction and memoir; literature-based writing; and cross-disciplinary studies. Contributors describe a wide variety of service-learning projects, including a course on the Harlem Renaissance in which students lead a community writing workshop, an English capstone seminar in which seniors design programs for public libraries, and a creative nonfiction course in which first-year students work with elderly community members to craft life narratives. The volume closes with a list of resources for practitioners and researchers in the field.
Author: Lyle Henry Wright
Publisher: San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
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Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780873522717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known Asian American works. The volume focuses on fifteen novels and book-length prose narratives (among them Meena Alexander's Nampally Road, Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club) and six works of drama (including David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly). Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major themes, critical issues, pedagogical topics, a list of comparative works, an assessment of resources, and a bibliography. The Resource Guide concludes with four essays that present themes and approaches for the study and teaching of short fiction, poetry, and panethnic anthologies. This volume provides a fresh look at what "Asian American literature" means and serves as an introduction to the study and teaching of this flourishing field. It is an essential collection for students, teachers, and scholars of all American literatures.
Author: Richard Kopley
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1997-08
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0814746985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What can there possibly be left to say about . . .? This common litany, resonant both in and outside of academia, reflects a growing sense that the number of subjects and authors appropriate for literary study is rapidly becoming exhausted. Take heart, admonishes Richard Kopley in this dynamic new anthology--for this is decidedly not the case. While generations of literary study have unquestionably covered much ground in analyzing canonical writers, many aspects of even the most well-known authors--both their lives and their work-- remain underexamined. Among the authors discussed are T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry James, Willa Cather, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain.
Author: Jonathan Senchyne
Publisher: Studies in Print Culture and t
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781625344731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature reveals that book history and literary studies are mutually constitutive and proposes a new literary periodization based on materiality and paper production. In unpacking this history and connecting it to cultural and literary representations, Senchyne also explores how the textuality of paper has been used to make social and political claims about gender, labor, and race.
Author: Elizabeth Renker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521141994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although American literature is a standard subject in the American college curriculum, a century ago few people thought it should be taught there. Elizabeth Renker uncovers the complex historical process through which American literature overcame its image of aesthetic and historical inferiority to become an important field for academic study and research. Renker's extensive original archival research focuses on four institutions of higher education serving distinct regional, class, race and gender populations. She argues that American literature's inferior image arose from its affiliation with non-elite schools, teachers and students, and that it had to overcome this social identity in order to achieve status as serious knowledge. Renker's revisionary analysis is an important contribution to the intellectual history of the United States and will be of interest to anyone studying, teaching or researching American literature.