Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 157003379X ISBN 13: 9781570033797
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Verlag: Narr Dr. Gunter, 2011
ISBN 10: 3823366734 ISBN 13: 9783823366737
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Narr Dr. Gunter, 2011
ISBN 10: 3823366734 ISBN 13: 9783823366737
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Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
ISBN 10: 1441100970 ISBN 13: 9781441100979
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 1853312096 ISBN 13: 9781853312090
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Verlag: Leicester University Press, London, United Kingdom, 1994
ISBN 10: 071851470X ISBN 13: 9780718514709
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. The theme of this book is the effect of the idea of America on historical figures and events, and on the historians who chronicled them. The fundamental assumption is that a number of American identities have been formed within the context of a diverse colonial legacy. Changing ideas of what America is or should be and what it means to be American are assumed to be consequences of historical pressures. The book is divided into two sections, juxtaposing colonial dealing with "native" America and Americans and the more recent attitudes of "native-born" Americans. Together, the two sections form a commentary on the development of the historical importance of the idea of America, on both sides of the Atlantic. The focus of the first section of the book is the historical idea of America that was formed through the process of colonization, with its attendant impact upon wildlife, landscapes and native peoples. The essays in the concluding section of the book deal with the experience of "native-born" rather than the "native" Americans. Here issues of nationality, the formation of national identity in response to a dual inheritance (both metropolitan and colonial), and pressures peculiar to the 20th century such as "Americanization" come to the fore. Clean Copy.
Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr, 2010
ISBN 10: 1438431686 ISBN 13: 9781438431680
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Verlag: Tübingen : Narr, 2007
ISBN 10: 3823363727 ISBN 13: 9783823363729
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Originalbroschur. Zustand: Sehr gut. 241 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Philipp Schweighauser, Literature in Transition: European Aesthetics and the Early American Novel -- Claude Ziltener, The Death-Hymn of the Perfect Tree: Metaphor, Metamorphosis and the Sublimity of Music in R. W. Emerson's Poems "Woodnotes I & II" -- Henrik Otterberg, Immanence and Transcendence in Thoreau's "A Winter Walk" -- François Specq, Henry David Thoreau's Journal or the Aesthetics of Spacing -- Patrick H. Vincent, Thoreau, Rousseau and the Aestìietics of Romantic Taxonomy -- Jerusha McCormack, American Decadence: A New Field for Research -- Agnieszka Soltysik, Poe's Aesthetics and American Modernism -- Francesca de Lucia, Making America: The Narrative Aesthetics of the Early Italian American Novel -- Hartwig Isernhagen, Aesthetics of Violence / Violence of Aesthetics: Some Remarks on the Cultural Work of Aesthetics and Practices of Aestheticization in Late Twentieth-Century American Civilization -- Martin Heusser, Et in Arcadia Ego: The Pastoral Aesthetics of Suburbia in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides -- Franziska Gygax, The Aesthetics of Illness: Narratives as Empowerment -- Thomas Austenfeld, Only Sensations Remain: The Hypertrophy of the Aesthetic in Philip Roth's Everyman -- Christina Ljungberg, Urban Aesthetics: Movement as Performative Utterance. ISBN 9783823363729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 338.
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Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
ISBN 10: 1403944938 ISBN 13: 9781403944931
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Softcover. 2006. 209 p. Unread book. Very good condition. Minimal traces of storage. 9781403944931 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 259.
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Verlag: Routledge, 2015
ISBN 10: 1138020605 ISBN 13: 9781138020603
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Verlag: Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 9051838875 ISBN 13: 9789051838879
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Niederlande
Original publisher's white paper-covered boards, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: 622pp. references, appendices, index persons, index subjects. - as new. Volume 12: Postmodern Studies. Serie edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens.
Verlag: HONG KONG UNIV PR, 2009
ISBN 10: 962209080X ISBN 13: 9789622090804
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Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut - Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. Außen: Knick. | Seiten: 285 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Sonstiges.
Verlag: University Press Of Mississippi Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1578061083 ISBN 13: 9781578061082
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A close-up look at America's perceived historical ideal Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of American history. It is the single most powerful force in forming the American identity. In American Exceptionalism Deborah L. Madsen traces this powerful theory from its origins in Puritan and Revolutionary-era writing to its latest manifestations in the Vietnam conflict and in current films and fiction. The growth of the idea is complex. In the 1600s the Massachusetts Bay colonists believed that God had intervened to create in America a 'redeemer nation,' as is shown in the writings of Mary Rowlandson, William Bradford, and John Cotton. From the perspective of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville comes the nineteenth-century vision of expansion and dispossession of Native Americans. Later, antislavery writers wielded the rhetoric of exceptionalism against 'the peculiar institution.' Recent history of American exceptionalism is revealed in the culture of movie Westerns and revisions of the American myth as shown by the novels of Larry McMurtry, Toni Morrison, and Thomas Pynchon. Alongside each chapter on American perspectives, Madsen places the counterweight of views from Native Americans, Chicanos, and non-Americans. The result is a balanced and thorough sounding of the New World superpower's legacy to the Old World. 'One has a good sense, from this book,' says Miles Orvell, 'that exceptionalism is not to be dismissed or condemned out of hand (as some are wont to do these days) but must be understood in all its complexity, as a source of America's distinct cultural shape, for better or worse. Madsen succeeds in bringing an intelligent detachment and broadly-informed perspective to an issue that is fraught with passion on all sides.' Deborah L. Madsen is a professor of English at South Bank University in London.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis, 2023
ISBN 10: 0367365626 ISBN 13: 9780367365622
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006
ISBN 10: 140394492X ISBN 13: 9781403944924
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. BRYAN ALEXANDER National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, Middlebury College, Vermont, USAANDREW BOOTH Director, Flexible Learning Development Unit, Professor of On-Line Learning in the School of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of L.
Verlag: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO PR, 2012
ISBN 10: 0826352499 ISBN 13: 9780826352491
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America s most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from divers.
Verlag: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO PR, 2011
ISBN 10: 0826349153 ISBN 13: 9780826349156
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. Novelist, autobiographer, poet, dramatist, essayist, and cultural critic of rare and radical boldness, Gerald Vizenor has long stood at the very forefront of Native writing. This essay collection offers an overview of Vizenor scholarship through close readi.
Verlag: CONTINNUUM 3PL, 2011
ISBN 10: 1441110453 ISBN 13: 9781441110459
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Explores three novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the important and popular Native American writers. This book illuminates Erdrich s multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. It focuses on such topics as humor, religion, ethnici.