From Puritanism To Postmodernism

Author : Richard Ruland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317234146
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Puritanism to Postmodernism written by Richard Ruland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.

Author : D. Madsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230379931
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allegory in America written by D. Madsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-12-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136698337
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism written by Stuart Sim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms and concepts. As well as revised essays on philosophy, politics, literature, and more, the first section now contains brand new essays on critical theory, business, gender and the performing arts. The concepts section, too, has been enhanced with new topics ranging from hypermedia to global warming. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernism will continue to find this an indispensable resource.

Author : Tracy Fessenden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136692290
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Puritan Origins of American Sex written by Tracy Fessenden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052118
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Postmodernism written by Tim Woods and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Postmodernism" has become the buzzword of contemporary society. Yet it remains baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning Postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural ideas. With its emphasis firmly on "postmodernism in practice," the book contains exercises and questions designed to help readers understand and reflect upon a variety of positions in the following areas of contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture and concepts of space; visual art; sculpture and the design arts; popular culture and music; film, video and television culture; and the social sciences.

Author : Geoffrey William Lord
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001169
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference written by Geoffrey William Lord and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and Notions of National Differenceexamines the critical construction of postmodern fiction raising the question of whether the construction of postmodernism has sufficiently accounted for national difference. Geoffrey Lord argues that current meta-national conceptions of postmodernism need serious reconsideration to take national cultural contexts into account. Through a comparative investigation of the theoretical debate, literary traditions and close textual reading of a number of postmodern texts, Lord makes a persuasive case for his broad claim that national cultural differences are more persistent and powerful than usually allowed by established theories of postmodernity which claim a general collapse of traditional cultural orders and the meta-narratives that justify them.

Author : Paul McDonald
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847601871
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laughing at the Darkness: Postmodernism and Optimism in American Humour written by Paul McDonald and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul McDonald’s book is the second in our Contemporary American Literature series, edited by Christopher Gair and Aliki Varvogli. Given that postmodernism has been associated with doubt, chaos, relativism and the disappearance of reality, it may appear difficult to reconcile with American optimism. Laughing at the Darkness demonstrates that this is not always the case. In examining the work of, among others, Sherman Alexie, Woody Allen, Douglas Coupland, Jonathan Safran Foer, Bill Hicks, David Mamet, and Philip Roth, McDonald shows how American humorists bring their comedy to bear on some of the negative implications of philosophical postmodernism and, in so doing, explore ways of reclaiming value.

Author : Will Kaufman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631534
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Culture in the 1970s written by Will Kaufman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and spectacle - and the decade's most influential practitioners and texts: from Toni Morrison to All in the Family, from Diane Arbus to Bruce Springsteen, from M.A.S.H. to Taxi Driver and from disco divas to Vietnam protesters. In response to those who consider the seventies the time of disco, polyester and narcissism, this book rewrites the critical engagement with one of America's most misunderstood decades.Key Features*Focused case studies featuring key texts and influential writers, artists, directors and musicians*Chronology of 1970s American Culture*Bibliographies for each chapter and a general bibliography on 1970s Culture*14 black-and-white illustrations

Author : Patrick Chatelion Counet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004116610
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John, a Postmodern Gospel written by Patrick Chatelion Counet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a profound discussion of the postmodern, deconstructive philosophy of language and its relevance for biblical exegesis. It presents fascinating new insights in the (differential and apophatic) character of the Fourth Gospel.

Author : Gillian B. Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845159
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sublime Today written by Gillian B. Pierce and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sublime Today considers contemporary applications of aesthetic philosophy and earlier theories of the sublime from Longinus, Boileau, Burke, Kant, and Hegel to current literary and cultural contexts. Today, aesthetic experience itself seems to be changing, given the rise of new media and new conditions for the viewing and the reception of works of art. How might the rhetoric of the sublime be used to both describe our current situation and help formulate constructive responses to it? The Sublime Today collects the work of scholars in literature, film, art, and media studies and provides a forum for investigating the contemporary relevance of the sublime, both as it has been understood historically and as it has been formulated by more recent theorists such as Jameson, Lyotard, Kristeva, and others. The volume includes essays on literary readings of the sublime in Coetze, Eggers, Lahiri, and Auster; essays on film and the visual arts in the work of François Ozon and in recent participatory art; and essays on how new technologies and media, as in media representations of 9/11, re-frame our relationship to the aesthetics of the sublime, especially as they intersect with questions of gender, the postcolonial, and the uneasy politics of terror.