In an alternative reading, Karla F.C. Holloway's "Legal Fictions" (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2014) suggests a different composition for the tradition and argues its contemporary vitality.
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In all, Baldwin wrote nearly 20 books, including such classics as Another Country and The Fire Next Time.
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Jarena Lee published two religious autobiographical narratives: The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee and Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee.
Her works continue to be studied in relation to style, contributions to American literature and the influence of the female perspective.
Courses are offered in philosophy, classical Latin and Greek, history of art, creative writing, comparative literature, Near Eastern studies, film and media studies, and history of science and technology, as well as in the more familiar areas of English and American literature, history, and modern foreign languages.
In the American novel The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich man Tom Buchanan says that "civilization's going to pieces", based upon his reading of The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by "this man Goddard"; allusions to Lothrop Stoddard's book of scientific racism, and to Henry H. Goddard, a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist.
The System of Dante's Hell is a short novel by African American writer LeRoi Jones, published in 1965 by Grove Press.
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Rosenbach is credited with popularizing the collecting of American literature at a time when only European literature was considered collectable.
Among her other contributions to American Literature, Constance Cary Harrison persuaded her friend Emma Lazarus to donate a poem to the fundraising effort to pay for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
The book identifies within American literature of the current Information Age or service economy a new work poetry about the nature and culture of nonindustrial work: white collar, pink collar, domestic, clerical, technical, managerial or professional.
A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 and Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, published by Routledge in 1991.
Theophilus Nash Buckingam (31 May 1880 - 10 March 1971), commonly referred to as Nash Buckingham, was an American author and conservationist from Tennessee.
The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding two decades on French, Italian, English and American writers.
His essays have appeared in, among other places, Callaloo, Social Text, Transition, Studies in the Novel, Women and Performance, African American Review, American Literary History, Fuse, AfterImage, Radical America, American Literature, Gay Community News, and the Washington Blade.
After receiving his doctorate in 1958 from UCLA he returned to the University of New Mexico and taught Spanish and Spanish-American literature until he retired in 1982.
Till A’the Seas is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow, written in January, 1935 and published in Summer 1935 in "The Californian".
Literary critic Henry Louis Gates also defines tropological revision in relation to African-American literature, in his work The Signifying Monkey.
She was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature.
Other examples include The Almanac of American Politics published by the National Journal, The Almanac of American Literature, and The Almanac of British Politics.
She is a professor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs and has been interested in Beat writers since 1956, when as an undergraduate English major at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1957) she attended the repeat performance of the Six Gallery Poetry reading in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg gave his second public reading of "Howl".
The principal examples of American literature that Swirski discusses in detail are: Irving Wallace’s The Man (1964), Richard Condon’s Death of a Politician (1978), P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores (1991; 2003), Warren Beatty’s script and film Bulworth (1998), and Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men... and Other Sorry Excises for the State of the Nation (2002; 2004).
Halligan also taught writing, American history, and American literature at a university in Wuhan, China, through the Princeton in Asia program.
Sklenicka was raised in Santa Maria, California, attended college California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo and received a Ph. D. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov, in 1986.
The Oxford Companion to American Literature notes that Norris' novels dealt with "such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business, ethics and birth control." He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli, 1922), A Gest of Robin Hood (with Robert C. Newell, 1929), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.
She was born in St.Louis, Missouri in 1962, received her B.A in English and American Literature from Harvard College.
Seabrook studied English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury gaining an MA with a dissertation on Marcel Proust.
Originally from Yuma, Arizona, Foree began calling his project Digital Leather when he moved to Tucson, where he studied American Literature at University of Arizona.
In The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 3rd Edition, Paul Lauter, editor Richard Yarborough, et al., 2 vols.
Her interests include American poetry, American Literature-1900, Religion and Literature, and Jewish literature.
In Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Schocket examined the way in which class-conscious American literature (such as by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Howells, and Langston Hughes) confronted and addressed the typical American denial of issues of social stratification.
During his life he concentrated his study of literary criticism on Rubén Darío, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Modernism in Spanish-American literature.
The book established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the stories "Why I Live at the P.O.", "Petrified Man", and the frequently anthologized A Worn Path.
Mullen has taught at Cornell University, and currently teaches courses in American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.
One of her books of children's stories, Children's Stories in American Literature: 1861-1896, covered a period of 1660-1860 with great authors like Edgar Allan Poe, William Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A famous use of the phrase in American literature is the title of Van Wyck Brooks' New England: Indian Summer (1940), chosen to suggest inconsistency, infertility, and depleted capabilities, a period of seemingly robust strength that is only an imitation of an earlier season of actual strength.
She usually lives in Stonington, Maine, but also teaches twentieth century American literature at the University of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia (where Alexander Pushkin and Vladimir Putin both studied), is married to a Russian ballet dancer and has one daughter and one stepson.
Charkviani graduated from the Department of Western European and American Literature, Tbilisi State University.
Specializing in American literature, he has published over twenty books and various articles on authors such as T. S. Eliot, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.
Popularity dwindled a bit after WW-II (although George Orwell mentions it very favourably in his 1946 essay on early American literature, "Riding Down from Bangor"), but started rising again in the 1980s.
In 1922, the John Newbery Medal was created by the American Library Association in his honour; it is awarded each year to the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
He teaches British Literature, American Literature, and Creative Writing courses at Redan High School as well as more Writing courses at Emory University during the evening.
The most influential African American literature to circulate in Longview was The Chicago Defender, a weekly newspaper with nationwide coverage and circulation.
(December 8, 1915 - June 4, 2000) was a scholar of American literature, focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville.
Born in Offida, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan.
On April 11, 2003, in Rome, the cultural association "Nuovi Orizzonti Latini" (New Latin Horizons) was founded, as a mix of third-level students, workers, movie directors, liberal professionals, experts of Hispano-American literature and many others.
Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, currently Professor of English at the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, having been educated at Leighton Park School before going on to King's College, Cambridge.
Nischik studied English and North American Literature as well as Social Sciences at the University of Cologne (Germany), taking the First State Examination in 1977.
He has written a dozen articles (on Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen, Penelope Fitzgerald, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Patchen, Paul Blackburn, Robert Kelly, among others) for encyclopedias (DLB, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Encyclopedia of World Literature, and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia), and many essays and reviews for journals, especially Sagetrieb.
Since 1959, Charters has been married to the writer, editor, Beat generation scholar, photographer, and pianist Ann Charters (b. 1936), whom he met at the University of California, Berkeley during the 1954-55 academic year in a music class; she is a retired professor of English and American literature at the University of Connecticut.
In Baym, Nina (ed.): The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
From 1996 to 1998 Henighan taught Latin American literature at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, '"HOO HOO HOO": Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Whiteness', American Literature 67:4 (December 1995), pp.
Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), edited by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-55016-5
In Nellie Y. McKay, Henry Louis Gates (eds), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Second edition, Norton, 2004.
Viola Sachs was a Professor of American Literature at "Université de Paris VIII, France".
2005: Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished University Professor of English and American Literature at SUNY Albany.
His doctoral dissertation was on poet Walt Whitman, and his scholarly emphasis is 19th-century American literature and culture.
Martyrdom in Korean American Literature: Resistance and Paradox in East Goes West, Quiet Odyssey, Comfort Woman and Dictee.