Author: Emory Elliott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1988-02-15
Total Pages: 1312
ISBN-13: 9780585041520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume—one of the century's most important books in American studies—extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture. The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.
Author: Joseph Childers
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780231072434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
Author: Jonathan Chaves
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780231061490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China's last three dynasties. Featured are poems from the Yuan dynasty, which range from quiet landscape depictions to expansive, freely expressive works; from the Ming era, notable for its stylistic quality and its diversity; and from tte Ch'ing dynasty, known for poets who, by refusing to fit into any category, helped continue the fascinating richness of late Ming cultural life. Annotated with biographical sketches of the poets and illustrated with their paintings, this collection is an unprecedented anthology of exceptionally well translated Chinese poetry up to the twentieth century.
Author: Jay Parini
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1993-12-23
Total Pages: 936
ISBN-13: 9780585041544
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Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1380
ISBN-13: 9780231074292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings together fiction, poetry, drama, folk stories, elegies, letters, travelogues, criticism and theory. It emphasizes the distinctive features of Chinese literature through the ages by means of its topical arrangement.
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 1044
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 610
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Author: Emory Elliott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 940
ISBN-13: 9780231073608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed as a companion to The Columbia Literary History of the United States, this compilation of 31 major essays covers the American novel from the 1700s to the present, although the majority deal with the 20th century. Within each era, themes, genres, and topics such as realism, gender, romance, and technology are discussed in depth, as well as modern Canadian, Caribbean, and Latin American fiction. Each essayist selects only the authors who best illustrate the topic, thus subtly skewing the view of the literary scene at that time. The volume also covers women, minorities, popular fiction, and the book marketplace. ISBN 0-231-07360-7: $59.95.