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  1. The place of fiction in the time of science
    a disciplinary history of American writing
    Author: Limon, John
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen... more

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    In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - three highly articulate and highly alarmed witnesses to the professionalisation of science, the great crisis in modern intellectual history. It was, he argues, especially specially difficult for American writers to face this crisis since they could make no appeal to traditional values: America, after all, had never really been a pre-scientific society

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780511570476; 9780521352512; 9780521107631
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    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 39
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Literature and science / United States; Science in literature; Literatur; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Roman; Naturwissenschaften; Geschichte; Wissenschaft
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages)
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  2. Narrative perspective and irony in selected Chinese and American fiction
    Author: Wang, Ban
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen, Lewiston, N.Y.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0773472185
    Series: Studies in comparative literature ; 46
    Subjects: Chinese fiction / History and criticism; American fiction / History and criticism; English fiction / History and criticism; Irony in literature; Erzählperspektive; Chinesisch; Prosa; Ironie
    Scope: vi, 174 p.
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    Publisher description: This study reconsiders irony by blending classical and contemporary critical notions. It revamps the notions of authorial perspective, plot, emotional effect, and other generic features of fiction by incorporating socio-historical analysis of practice, ideology, and discourse. In discussing Chinese texts, it shows how narrative structure breaks down and authoritative dogma and myth fall apart under a critical irony, shifting narrative stances, and multi-voiced language. The second part deals with works by Austen, James, Flaubert, Dickens, and Woolf, illustrating how a variable narrative perspective affects plot structure, and how cherished moral assumptions are questioned and debunked. It will help teachers and students analyze multi-cultural texts from East and West with aesthetic sensitivity, and provide new readings of classic texts.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-169) and index

    Inhalt: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Irony, Ideology, and Multi-Voiced Discourse -- Ch. 1. Reading for Irony in Classical Chinese Fiction -- Ch. 2. Irony and Social Criticism in Lu Xun's Fiction -- Ch. 3. Citation of Discourse and Ironic Debunking in Ah Cheng's Work -- Ch. 4. Rhetoric of the Absurd: The Grotesque in Yu Hua and Lu Xun -- Ch. 5. Fiction as Discursive Practice -- Ch. 6. Plot as a Structure of Meaning and Emotion: The Case of Emma -- Ch. 7. Narrative Point of View and the Creation of Mystery in Great Expectations -- Ch. 8. Narrative Stance and the Reader's Response -- Ch. 9. Self-Irony in First-Person Narrative -- Ch. 10. Dramatic Irony and Ideological Conflict -- Ch. 11. Representation of the Psyche and the Modern Novel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

  3. The rediscovery of the frontier
    Published: 1931
    Publisher:  Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

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    RVK Categories: HT 1691
    Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life / United States; American literature / History and criticism; American fiction / History and criticism; Grenze <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: IX, 184 S.
  4. Vie della narrativa americana
    la tradizione del nuovo dall'ottocento a oggi
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  Einaudi, Torino

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    Language: Italian
    Media type: Book
    Series: Piccola biblioteca Einaudi; 397 : Filologia, linguistica, critica letteraria
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; American fiction
    Scope: 327 S.
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    "Campioni narrativi del secondo dopoguerra": S. [272] - 312. - Includes index

  5. The instructed vision
    Scottish common sense philosophy and the origins of American fiction
    Published: 1961
    Publisher:  Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, Ind.

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    RVK Categories: CI 6300 ; HR 1819
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Philosophy, Scottish; Common sense
    Scope: VIII, 197 S.
  6. What animals mean in the fiction of modernity
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Routledge, London [u.a.]

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  7. Hemispheric imaginations
    North American fictions of Latin America
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, New Hampshire

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781611689914
    RVK Categories: HR 1703
    Series: Re-mapping the transnational
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Canadian fiction / History and criticism; Literatur; Südamerika
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 390 Seiten)
  8. American utopia
    literature, society, and the human use of human beings
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "From the Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial... more

     

    "From the Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner's Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene engineering, from the pretzel logic of meritocracy to de-aggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of prosocial reform in the name of the human use of human beings"--

     

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    ISBN: 9780429032004; 0429032005; 9780429629778; 042962977X; 9780429626494; 0429626495; 9780429628139; 0429628137
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Literature and society / United States
    Scope: 1 online resource
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  9. Narrative perspective and irony in selected Chinese and American fiction
    Author: Wang, Ban
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen, Lewiston, N.Y.

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    ISBN: 0773472185
    Series: Studies in comparative literature ; 46
    Subjects: Chinese fiction / History and criticism; American fiction / History and criticism; English fiction / History and criticism; Irony in literature
    Scope: vi, 174 p.
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    Publisher description: This study reconsiders irony by blending classical and contemporary critical notions. It revamps the notions of authorial perspective, plot, emotional effect, and other generic features of fiction by incorporating socio-historical analysis of practice, ideology, and discourse. In discussing Chinese texts, it shows how narrative structure breaks down and authoritative dogma and myth fall apart under a critical irony, shifting narrative stances, and multi-voiced language. The second part deals with works by Austen, James, Flaubert, Dickens, and Woolf, illustrating how a variable narrative perspective affects plot structure, and how cherished moral assumptions are questioned and debunked. It will help teachers and students analyze multi-cultural texts from East and West with aesthetic sensitivity, and provide new readings of classic texts

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-169) and index

    Inhalt: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Irony, Ideology, and Multi-Voiced Discourse -- Ch. 1. Reading for Irony in Classical Chinese Fiction -- Ch. 2. Irony and Social Criticism in Lu Xun's Fiction -- Ch. 3. Citation of Discourse and Ironic Debunking in Ah Cheng's Work -- Ch. 4. Rhetoric of the Absurd: The Grotesque in Yu Hua and Lu Xun -- Ch. 5. Fiction as Discursive Practice -- Ch. 6. Plot as a Structure of Meaning and Emotion: The Case of Emma -- Ch. 7. Narrative Point of View and the Creation of Mystery in Great Expectations -- Ch. 8. Narrative Stance and the Reader's Response -- Ch. 9. Self-Irony in First-Person Narrative -- Ch. 10. Dramatic Irony and Ideological Conflict -- Ch. 11. Representation of the Psyche and the Modern Novel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

  10. Blast, corrupt, dismantle, erase
    contemporary North American dystopian literature
    Contributor: Grubisic, Brett Josef (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, Waterloo, Ont.

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    Contributor: Grubisic, Brett Josef (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781554589890
    RVK Categories: HU 1818
    Subjects: Dystopias in literature; Utopias in literature; American fiction / History and criticism; Canadian fiction / History and criticism; Mexican fiction / History and criticism; Literature and society; Anti-Utopie; Literatur
    Scope: VI, 480 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  11. Corridor
    media architectures in American fiction
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780816679270; 9780816679287; 9780816684311
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Space (Architecture) in literature; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Literatur; Raum <Motiv>; Architektur <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: Corridoricity -- Becoming media in an American tragedy -- Infrastructural modernity -- The flu and the media, or contagion 1918 -- Corridors of power -- Epilogue: Open plan

  12. Jazz in the time of the novel
    the temporal politics of American race and culture
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

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    ISBN: 9780817386900; 9780817318048
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Jazz in literature; Music in literature; Rhythm in literature; Time in literature; Jazz <Motiv>; Zeit <Motiv>; Literatur; Rhythmus <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
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    Jazz and the novel in the cultural and imaginative landscape -- Music, race, and sublimation: ragtime and symphonic time in the autobiography of an ex-colored man -- "Carolina shout" and the rhythms of rent-party performance -- Forms of repetition and jazz sociality in The Great Gatsby -- Vibratory time in Smith and Armstrong's "St. Louis Blues" -- Rhythmicizing the novel: temporal taxonomies from Larsen to Hemingway, Stein to Hughe

  13. Alone in America
    the stories that matter
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ISBN: 9780674066762; 9780674068032
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Loneliness in literature; Roman; Einsamkeit <Motiv>; Kurzgeschichte
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 283 p)
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    Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be

  14. The "Ulysses" delusion
    rethinking standards of literary merit
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire

    "Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions - they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately... more

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    "Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions - they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently"--

     

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  15. Hemispheric imaginations
    North American fictions of Latin America
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, New Hampshire

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781611689723; 9781611689907
    RVK Categories: HR 1703
    Series: Re-mapping the transnational
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Canadian fiction / History and criticism; Südamerika <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: xvii, 390 Seiten, 25 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  16. The farm novel in North America
    genre and nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk

    From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous works of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian literature belong to the genre of the farm novel. In... more

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    From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous works of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian literature belong to the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of the genre in North America from its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century to its apogee in French Canada around the middle of the 20th. Through surveys and selected detailed analyses of a large number of farm novels written in French and English, Freitag examines how North American farm novels draw on the history of farming in 19th-century North America as well as on the national self-conceptions of the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, portraying farmers as national icons and the farm as a symbolic space of the American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian nations. Turning away from traditional readings of farm novels within the frameworks of regionalism and pastoralism, Freitag takes a comparative North American look at a genre that helped to spatialize North American national dreams. Florian Freitag is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany

     

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    ISBN: 9781571138774
    RVK Categories: HR 1801
    Subjects: Farm life in literature; American fiction / History and criticism; Canadian fiction / History and criticism; French-Canadian fiction / History and criticism; Roman; Bauernhof <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource (364 pages)
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    Surveying the fields -- Early sowings: St. John de Crevecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean," -- Patrice Lacombe's La Terre Paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the bush -- Laws of nature: Frank Norris's The octopus, Albert Laberge's La scouine and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the marsh -- New world demeters: Willa Cather's O pioneers!, Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild geese -- Rich harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the meanest man in Spring County -- Claude-Henri Grignon's Un Homme et son peche, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the earth -- Fields of crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of wrath, Felix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maitre-draveur, and Robert Stead's Grain -- The cycle of seasons: Louis Bromfield's The farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents and Grace Campbell's The higher hill

  17. Schools of sympathy
    gender and identification through the novel
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [Que.]

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    ISBN: 0773516689; 0773516859; 0773566872; 9780773516687; 9780773516854; 9780773566873
    Subjects: Feminism and literature / Great Britain / History; American fiction / History and criticism; Feminism and literature; Sympathy in literature; Victims in literature; Roman anglais / Histoire et critique; Femmes dans la littérature; Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature; Identité sexuelle dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; English fiction; Gender identity in literature; Sex role in literature; Women in literature; Geschichte; English fiction; Women in literature; Sex role in literature; Gender identity in literature; Frau; Geschichte; Englisch; Roman; Identität
    Other subjects: Atwood, Margaret (1939-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 179 p.)
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    Schools of sympathy -- Clarissa: novel as trial -- The Scarlet Letter and "The spectacle of the scaffold" -- Changing places: gender and identity in The Portrait of a Lady -- "A thousand pities": the reader and Tess of the d'Urbervilles" -- "Back talk": the work of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter

    "Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim. Nancy Roberts examines how the reader's sympathy for the heroines is constructed, the motivations and desires involved in an identification with victimization, and the gender and power roles that such an identification calls into play."--Jacket

  18. Women writing cloth
    migratory fictions in the American imaginary
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham

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    ISBN: 9781498525855; 9781498525879
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Women in literature; Sewing in literature; Embroidery in literature; Working class women in literature; American fiction; Embroidery in literature; Sewing in literature; Women in literature; Working class women in literature; Literatur; Handarbeiten <Motiv>; Migration <Motiv>; Frau <Motiv>; Weben <Motiv>
    Scope: xviii, 139 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Women writing cloth: an introduction -- Hester's needle: mending new-world fragmentation in the Scarlet Letter -- Sister's choice and Celie's quilted eloquence in The color purple -- The portable rebozo: Cisneros's Caramelo and metafictional histories -- Bernardi's openwork and Italian women's diasporas

  19. Teaching tainted lit
    popular American fiction in today's classroom
    Contributor: Casey, Janet Galligani (Publisher)
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

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  20. Literature and moral theory
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    "A comprehensive overview of the role of narrative literature in late 20th-century Anglo-American ethics, as part of a reconsideration of the roles of generalization and theory in moral philosophy"-- more

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    "A comprehensive overview of the role of narrative literature in late 20th-century Anglo-American ethics, as part of a reconsideration of the roles of generalization and theory in moral philosophy"--

     

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  21. The place of fiction in the time of science
    a disciplinary history of American writing
    Author: Limon, John
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen... more

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    In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - three highly articulate and highly alarmed witnesses to the professionalisation of science, the great crisis in modern intellectual history. It was, he argues, especially specially difficult for American writers to face this crisis since they could make no appeal to traditional values: America, after all, had never really been a pre-scientific society

     

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    ISBN: 9780511570476
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    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 39
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Literature and science / United States; Science in literature; Literatur; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Roman; Naturwissenschaften; Geschichte; Wissenschaft
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages)
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    Part I: Toward a disciplinary intellectual history -- Part II: Brown's epistemology -- Romancing Newton -- The locked closet -- A Cartesian plague -- Hume and repetition -- Kant and madness -- Coda -- Part III: Poe's methodology -- Is science deadly dull? -- Is there a life science? -- Undying literature -- Part IV: Hawthorne's technology -- The anxieties of alienation -- The problems of preemption -- Treachery betrayed -- Part V: After the revolutions: Brown and Dreiser, Poe and Pynchon, Hawthorne and Mailer -- Sister Caries, Brother Arthur -- Polar similarity -- The celestial spacecraft

  22. The ethnography of manners
    Hawthorne, James, Wharton
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to... more

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    This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse of 'culture', a discourse that allowed writers to turn new social energies and fears into particular kinds of authorial expertise. Crossing a range of institutions (anthropology, literature, museums, law) and texts (novels, ethnographies, travel books, social theory), this study allows fiction to take its place in a web of social practices that categorize, display and regulate what Wharton calls 'the customs of the country'

     

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  23. Equivocal endings in classic American novels
    the Scarlet letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Ambassadors, the Great Gatsby
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to... more

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    An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511519369
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    RVK Categories: HR 1819 ; HT 1810 ; HT 1818 ; HU 1819
    Subjects: American fiction / History and criticism; Closure (Rhetoric); Ambiguity in literature; Ambiguität; Romanschluss; Roman
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 161 pages)
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  24. Journalism and the novel
    truth and fiction, 1700-2000
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this original and engaging study, Doug Underwood focuses on the many notable journalists-turned-novelists... more

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    Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this original and engaging study, Doug Underwood focuses on the many notable journalists-turned-novelists found at the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century, when the novel and the commercial periodical began to emerge as powerful cultural forces. Writers from both sides of the Atlantic are discussed, from Daniel Defoe to Charles Dickens, and from Mark Twain to Joan Didion. Underwood shows how many literary reputations are built on journalistic foundations of research and reporting, and how this impacts on questions of realism and authenticity throughout the work of many canonical authors. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of British and American literature

     

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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511551833
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    RVK Categories: HG 680
    Subjects: Geschichte; English fiction / History and criticism; American fiction / History and criticism; Journalism and literature / Great Britain; Journalism and literature / United States; Journalism / Great Britain / History; Journalism / United States / History; Roman; Englisch; Journalismus <Motiv>; Journalismus
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    Journalism and the rise of the novel, 1700-1875 : Daniel Defoe to George Eliot -- Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915 : Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser -- Reporters as novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today : Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion -- The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch : Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond -- Epilogue : the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures : Henry James to Tom Wolfe -- Appendix : the major journalist-literary figures : their writings and positions in journalism

  25. The farm novel in North America
    genre and nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk

    From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous works of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian literature belong to the genre of the farm novel. In... more

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    From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous works of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian literature belong to the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of the genre in North America from its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century to its apogee in French Canada around the middle of the 20th. Through surveys and selected detailed analyses of a large number of farm novels written in French and English, Freitag examines how North American farm novels draw on the history of farming in 19th-century North America as well as on the national self-conceptions of the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, portraying farmers as national icons and the farm as a symbolic space of the American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian nations. Turning away from traditional readings of farm novels within the frameworks of regionalism and pastoralism, Freitag takes a comparative North American look at a genre that helped to spatialize North American national dreams. Florian Freitag is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany

     

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    ISBN: 9781571138774
    RVK Categories: HR 1801
    Subjects: Farm life in literature; American fiction / History and criticism; Canadian fiction / History and criticism; French-Canadian fiction / History and criticism; Roman; Bauernhof <Motiv>
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    Surveying the fields -- Early sowings: St. John de Crevecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean," -- Patrice Lacombe's La Terre Paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the bush -- Laws of nature: Frank Norris's The octopus, Albert Laberge's La scouine and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the marsh -- New world demeters: Willa Cather's O pioneers!, Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild geese -- Rich harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the meanest man in Spring County -- Claude-Henri Grignon's Un Homme et son peche, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the earth -- Fields of crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of wrath, Felix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maitre-draveur, and Robert Stead's Grain -- The cycle of seasons: Louis Bromfield's The farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents and Grace Campbell's The higher hill