Best Things from American Literature
Author | : Irving Bacheller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Irving Bacheller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Crane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Irving Bacheller |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2014-03-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494162085 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
Author | : Bill Brown |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226076318 |
In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves. Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably new way to think about materialism, A Sense of Things will be essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and culture.
Author | : Dan Sinykin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192594265 |
Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now? What does it mean? This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'. The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse—horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it; claustrophobia within the limited scripts of neoliberalism; suffocation under the weight of debt—together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century. For many of us, for different reasons, it feels like the end is coming soon and this book explores how we came to this, and what it has meant for literature.
Author | : Henry de Montherlant |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2009-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 159017304X |
Don Celestino is old and bitter and afraid, an impossible man. An anarchist who has been in exile from his native Spain for more than twenty years, he lives with his daughter in Paris, but in his mind he is still fighting the Spanish Civil War. He fulminates against the daily papers; he brags about his past exploits. He has become bigoted, self-important, and obsessed; a bully to his fellow exiles and a tyrant to his daughter, Pascualita. Then a family member dies in Madrid and there is an inheritance to sort out. Pascualita wants to go to Spain, which is supposedly opening up in response to the 1960s, and Don Celestino feels he has no choice but to follow. He is full of dread and desire, foreseeing a heroic last confrontation with his enemies, but what he encounters instead is a new commercialized Spain that has no time for the past, much less for him. Or so it seems. Because the last act of Don Celestino’s dizzying personal drama will prove that though “there is nothing serious . . . , there is tragedy.” An astonishing modern take on Don Quixote, Chaos and Night untangles the ties between politics and paranoia, self-loathing and self-pity, rage and remorse. It is the darkly funny final flowering of the art of Henry de Montherlant, a solitary and scarifying modern master whose work, admired by Graham Greene and Albert Camus, is sure to appeal to contemporary readers of Thomas Bernhard and Roberto Bolaño.
Author | : Irving Bacheller |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780483296701 |
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Author | : Marie NDiaye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781931883238 |
Features five stories all dealing with the boundaries between individuals and illustrating how an idea of the world does not always match reality.
Author | : Lois Lenski |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453227490 |
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Author | : Irving 1859-1950 Ed Bacheller |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781360670980 |
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