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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), the first black American to publish a book, was internationally famous during her short life. This edition, with an essay by the editor, restores her to her proper place in America's literary heritage.

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Zustand: New. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), the first black American to publish a book, was internationally famous during her short life. This edition, with an essay by the editor, restores her to her proper place in America's literary heritage. Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Num Pages: 384 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494. . 1990. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767. Her tribute to a famed pastor, "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield," followed in 1770, catapulting her into the international spotlight, and publication of her 1773 Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London created her an international star.Despite the attention she received at the time, history has not been kind to Wheatley. Her work has long been neglected or denigrated by literary critics and historians. John C. Shields, a scholar of early American literature, has tried to help change this perception, and Wheatley has begun to take her place among the elite of American writers.In Phillis Wheatley and the Romantic Age, Shields contends that Wheatley was not only a brilliant writer but one whose work made a significant impression on renowned Europeans of the Romantic age, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who borrowed liberally from her works, particularly in his famous distinction between fancy and imagination. Shields shows how certain Wheatley texts, particularly her "Long Poem," consisting of "On Recollection," "Thoughts on the Works of Providence," and "On Imagination," helped shape the face of Romanticism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Phillis Wheatley and the Romantic Age helps demolish the long-held notion that literary culture flowed in only one direction: from Europe to the Americas. Thanks to Wheatley's influence, Shields argues, the New World was influencing European literary masters far sooner than has been generally understood.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJohn C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honor.

Zustand: New. The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics. In recent decades, however, Wheatley s work has come under new scrutiny. In these never-before-published essays, fo.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book ''John Shields's book is a provocative challenge to the venerable Adamic myth so exhaustively deployed in examinations of early American literature and in American studies. Moreover, The American Aeneas builds wonderfully on Shields's considerable work on Phillis Wheatley. '' - American Literature ''The American Aeneas should be of interest to classicists and American studies scholars alike.'' - The New England Quarterly John Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting the biblical character Adam as an archetype who has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nation's cultural identity- a secular one deriving from the classical tradition- has been seriously neglected. Shields shows how Adam and Aeneas- Vergil's hero of the Aeneid- in crossing over to American from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of ''pastlessness'' that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. John C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honorable mention in the Harry Levin Prize competition, sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753 1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work, let alone influence Romantic-period giants like Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson once declared that "the compositions published under her name are below dignity of criticism." In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature have been reconceived. In these never-before-published essays, fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. The pieces in the first section show that perhaps the most substantial measure of Wheatley's multilayered texts resides in her deft handling of classical materials. The contributors consider Wheatley's references to Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics and to the feminine figure Dido as well as her subversive critique of white readers attracted to her adaptation of familiar classics. They also discuss Wheatley's use of the Homeric Trojan horse and eighteenth-century verse to mask her ambitions for freedom and her treatment of the classics as political tools. Engaging Wheatley's multilayered texts with innovative approaches, the essays in the second section recontextualize her rich manuscripts and demonstrate how her late-eighteenth-century works remain both current and timeless. They ponder Wheatley's verse within the framework of queer theory, the concepts of political theorist Hannah Arendt, rhetoric, African studies, eighteenth-century "salon culture," and the theoretics of imagination. Together, these essays reveal the depth of Phillis Wheatley's literary achievement and present concrete evidence that her extant oeuvre merits still further scrutiny. John C. Shields is Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University. He is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book; Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics; and Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation; and awarded honorable mention in competition for the American Comparative Literature Association's Harry Levin Prize. As well, Shields serves as director of the Center for Classicism and American Culture and General Editor for the series of monographs on Classicism in American Culture to be published by the University of Tennessee Press. Eric D. Lamore is an assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and a contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. "Third ed., revised" ; xi, 591 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. ; LC: GV981 ; OCLC: 51021505 ; ISBN: 0394490207; 9780394490205 LCCN: 75-8244 ; green cloth, scuffed ; no dustjacket ; "Widely regarded as the definitive account of America's love affair with the world's greatest game, this magisterial volume is Herbert Warren Wind's masterpiece." ; "From John Reid, the expatriate Scotsman who imported a set of clubs and balls from St. Andrews in 1888 and built a three-hole course on a cow pasture in Yonkers, New York, to Alan Shepard's six-iron shot on the surface of the moon, The Story of American Golf documents the iconic moments in the sport's first century in the United States. Wind captures legendary players, including C. B. Macdonald, Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus, in all their glory, and expertly analyzes the developments in style, equipment, and technique that created the modern game." ; "Originally released in 1948 and revised in 1956 and 1975, Wind's work is the most graceful and thorough history ever published of professional and amateur men's and women's golf in America. From John Reid, the man who introduced the game to this country with three holes carved out of a cow pasture on his New York estate in 1888, to Francis Ouimet's memorable victory in the 1913 U.S. Open, to Bobby Jones' "impregnable quadrilateral" in 1930, to the dawn of the era of Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan, Wind covers it all: the personalities, the competition, even swing analyses. This volume introduces the game's first star players, including Bobby Jones, Glenna Collett, Gene Sarazen, and Walter Hagen." ; "Encyclopedic in scope and intimate in detail, The Story of American Golf is both a fitting tribute to the beautiful and fickle game that inspired a national obsession and a testament to Herbert Warren Wind's incomparable talents as a journalist and historian. ; Contents: Sowing the seeds, 1883-1913 -- The apple tree gang -- Before and after St. Andrew's -- C. B. Macdonald awakens the west -- The USGA and the first championships -- Turn of the century -- Walter J. Travis, the great old man -- Jerome D Travers, the great young man -- Cilde Harold's pilgimage -- The shots heard round the world -- The diligent decade, 1913-1923 -- After Quimet -- Chick Evans, to him who waits -- The war years -- Sam's boys and John's boys -- Sir Walter -- Jones breaks through -- The age of Bobby Jones, 1923-1930 -- The one and only -- The Master builders -- The women -- They also played, superbly -- The grand slam -- The changing of the guard, 1930-1941 -- The bright lights of the dark age -- Gene Sarazen's year -- Lawson Little, the man who could play matches -- The tragedy of Harry Cooper -- The big money and the big hitters -- Lost: A Walker Cup -- All good things -- The advent of the modern era -- Duration golf, or the story of Byron Nelson -- The post-war pace -- The Babe -- The revival of international golf -- Mid-century architecture -- The age of Hogan, 1948-1955 -- The champion who came back a greater champion -- Palmer, Nicklaus, Player and a new era -- Arnold Palmer, the man who made charisma a household word -- The golden hours of the Golden Bear -- Gary Player and the other new champions -- The scene changes -- High drama in the seventies at home and abroad -- US and Interational Golf records ; G. Book.…

Cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. XLV, 432 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag minimal berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand, mit persönlicher Widmung des Authors an Wolfgang Haase, inklusive einer Rezension des Buches / dust jacket minimally rubbed, otherwise very good condition, with personal dedication of the author to Wolfgang Haase, including a review of the book. - In The American Aeneas, John C. Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting that the biblical myth of Adam has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nations cultural identitya secular one deriving from the classical traditionhas been seriously neglected. The author finds various Early American texts, including pastorals, pastoral elegies, literary independence poems, tracts on educational theories, religious discourses, and political writings, laden with elements of classicism, particularly the myth of Aeneas as depicted by Vergil. Shields demonstrates that Aeneas, Vergils hero of the Aeneid, was an especially apt figure for New World discourse in that he epitomized the sailor who struck out onto dangerous, uncharted seas in order to discover a new land in which to build a new civilization. Shields shows how both the myth of Adam and the myth of Aeneas, in crossing over to America from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. This rearticulation of the myths of Adam and Aeneas became peculiarly adapted to the demands of the American adventure in freedom. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of pastlessness that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. The authors probing analysis sheds new light on the works of such seminal figures as Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather, Phillis Wheatley, George Washington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. But it does much more than thatit posits a new model for American studies. This model, Shields writes, is not composed of a single strand which can only direct the struggle to explore the dimensions of American culture in a linear fashionan inevitable dead end. The image of two strands coming together, intertwining and interconnecting so as to accommodate virtually infinite possibilities, more accurately captures the dynamic of Americanness. / Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Quest for the American Aeneas Part I. Adam and Aeneas: 1500-1720 1. Translatio Cultus 2. Edward Taylors Classicism 3. Cotton Mathers Epic in Prose Part II. Adam Becomes Aeneas: 1720-1784 4. Surge for Cultural Independence: The Flourishing of American Classicism 5. George Washington and the Vergilian Moment 6. The American Epic Writ Large: The Example of Phillis Wheatley Part III. Aeneas Becomes Adam: 1784 to the Present 7. The Radical Shift in Discourse 8. The Persistence of the American Aeneas in Hawthorne 9. The Persistence of the American Aeneas in Melville Conclusion: Americas Classical Origins Besieged Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9781572331327 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 824.…

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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Bien. Essays "On Location: Alan Shields' Works of Paper"; "Marginalia: Will it Last, Does it Matter?," by Thomas McEvilley; "Modern Life: How Scale Works," by Carter Ratcliff; "Turned Out: In America, Love Means Never Having to Say Sari," by Sunil Sethi; "Like Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "Ground Up: The Piazza in the Living Room, Communion by Communication," by Herbert Muschamp; "Remote Control: Lip-Syncing Free Speech," by Barbara Kruger; "Speaker to Speaker: In the Kingdom of the Invisible," by Greil Marcus; "Liberations: The Minus Works of Michelangelo Pistoletto," by Denys Zacharopoulos; "The Cowboy Philospher: Adventures as Metaphor," by Greil Marcus; "Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Comet Passed by - Energy Burnt Against Oppression," by Wolfram Schutte; "Toward Another Laocoon, Or, the Snake Pit: Sunday in the Park with Art. From the Impressionists to the Neo-expressionists, the Avant-garde's Will to Survive Art Production," by Thomas Lawson; "Barbaric Place: Project for Artforum," by Ettore Sottsass, Jr., with a note by Herbert Muschamp; "Flashes of Understatement: Four Decades of Elmer Bischoff's Reckoning with Paint," by Kenneth Baker. Reviews by Kenneth Baker, Glenn O'Brien, Patricia C. Phillips, Jean Fisher, Jeanne Silverthorne, Suzaan Boettger, John Howell, Ronny Cohen, Charles Hagen, Donald Kuspit, Carlo McCormick, John Yau, Jayne Merkel, Jeff Kelley, Ed Hill, Suzanne Bloom, Colin Gardner, Bill Berkson, Annelie Pohlen, Max Wechsler, Helmut Draxler, Barbara Maestri, Ida Panicelli, Gloria Moure, and Aurora Garcia. Cover: Alan Shields.…