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| Author | : Nathanael T. Booth |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2019-01-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476635722 |
In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town's potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.
| Author | : Ima Honaker Herron |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 1971 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robert Wuthnow |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 2015-05-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0691165823 |
A revealing examination of small-town life More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town America, we meet factory workers, shop owners, retirees, teachers, clergy, and mayors—residents who show neighborliness in small ways, but who also worry about everything from school closings and their children's futures to the ups and downs of the local economy. Drawing on more than seven hundred in-depth interviews in hundreds of towns across America and three decades of census data, Robert Wuthnow shows the fragility of community in small towns. He covers a host of topics, including the symbols and rituals of small-town life, the roles of formal and informal leaders, the social role of religious congregations, the perception of moral and economic decline, and the myriad ways residents in small towns make sense of their own lives. Wuthnow also tackles difficult issues such as class and race, abortion, homosexuality, and substance abuse. Small-Town America paints a rich panorama of individuals who reside in small communities, finding that, for many people, living in a small town is an important part of self-identity.
| Author | : Philip R. Yannella |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2010-06-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1444324144 |
This book places major literary works within the context of thetopics that engaged a great number of American writers in theperiod from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the GreatDepression Topics include Civil War memory, the virtual re-enslavement ofAfrican-Americans after Reconstruction, and radical socialmovements Draws on a range of documents from magazine and newspaperaccounts to government reports and important non-fiction Presents a contemporary history as writers might haveunderstood it as they were writing, not as historians haveinterpreted it. Designed to be compatible with the major anthologies ofliterature from the period Equips students and general readers with the necessaryhistorical context needed to understand the writings from thisperiod and provides original and useful readings that demonstratehow context contributes to meaning Includes a historical timeline, featuring key literary works,American presidents, and historical events
| Author | : Justin Quinn |
| Publisher | : Karolinum Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2011-10-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 8024619962 |
The first edition of this book, published in 2002, aimed to complete the study material for our students of American literature. The third edition strives to emphasize this aspect while expanding and deepening the general overview as well as including other important movements and authors. The exposition of the 20th century underwent major changes: the scholars added new texts while supplementing the older ones to comply with the development of critical and academic approaches. The book is written to the point and in comprehensible language, corresponding with the ambition to present and explain the development of one of the most interesting world literatures to university students.
| Author | : Wilfred D. Samuels |
| Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
| Total Pages | : 1999 |
| Release | : 2015-04-22 |
| Genre | : African American authors |
| ISBN | : 1438140592 |
Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.
| Author | : Edward G. Agran |
| Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 1999-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1610754301 |
For fifty years, William Allen White, first as a reporter and later as the long-time editor of the Emporia Gazette, wrote of his small town and its Mid-American values. By tailoring his writing to the emerging urban middle class of the early twentieth century, he won his “gospel of Emporia” a nationwide audience and left a lasting impact on he way America defines itself. Investigating White’s life and his extensive writings, Edward Gale Agran explores the dynamic thought of one of America’s best-read and most-respected social commentators. Agran shows clearly how White honed his style and transformed the myth of conquering the western frontier into what became the twentieth-century ideal of community building. Once a confidante of and advisor to Theodore Roosevelt, White addressed, and reflected in his work, all the great social and political oscillations of his time—urbanization and industrialism, populism, and progressivism, isolationism internationalism, Prohibition, and New Deal reform. Again and again, he asked the question “What’s the matter?” about his times and townspeople, then found the middle ground. With great care and discernment, Agran gathers the man strains of White’s messages, demonstrating one writer’s pivotal contribution to our idea of what it means to be an American.
| Author | : Linda De Roche |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 2067 |
| Release | : 2021-06-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.
| Author | : Josephine Hendin |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0470756381 |
This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms. Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more. Shows how different genres and approaches opened up creative possibilities and interacted in the postwar period. Portrays the postwar United States split by differences of wealth and position, by ethnicity and race, and by agendas of left and right, but united in the intensity of its creative drive.
| Author | : Krishna Sharma |
| Publisher | : Krishna Kumar Sharma |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
This book provides the knowledge of American literature from American Renaissance to post modern era.
