ISBN: 9780812216097 - the poetics of imperialism: translation and colonization from the tempest to tarzan (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare's "Tempest," at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780812216097. …

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332. . 1997. Expanded. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. expanded edition. 250 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare's 'Tempest,' at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorEric CheyfitzKlappentextrnrn A provocative and insightful book. --Modern PhilologyCheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for m.