Browsing by Subject "American literature"

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    • A brief history of American literature 

      Gray, Richard J. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2011)
      Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction.

    • A companion to American literature and culture 

      Lauter, Paul (editor) (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2010)
      Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more; Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural ...

    • A companion to literature, film, and adaptation 

      Cartmell, Deborah (editor) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of ...

    • A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture 

      Hendin, Josephine G. (editor) (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004)

    • American literature : a history 

      Bertens, Johannes Willem; D’haen, Theo (Routledge, 2014)
      This comprehensive history of American Literature traces its development from the earliest colonial writings of the late 1500s through to the present day. This lively, engaging and highly accessible guide: offers lucid ...

    • American world literature : an introduction 

      Giles, Paul (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)
      "This book is designed to offer an overview of ways in which the subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged (and diverged) over the past twenty or thirty years. American literature is now ...

    • Contemporary American memoirs in action : how to do things with memoir 

      Danielewicz, Jane (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life. Writers are repurposing the memoir, a genre known for its personal and expressive function, ...

    • The American tradition in literature 

      Perkins, George; Perkins, Barbara (McGraw-Hill, 2009)
      Widely known as the anthology that best unites tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature is proud to enter its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American literature. Each volume ...

    • The Cambridge companion to Native American literature 

      Porter, Joy (editor); Roemer, Kenneth M. (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
      Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by ...

    • The Cambridge introduction to the American short story 

      Scofield, Martin (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
      This book offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding ...

    • The Routledge companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander literature 

      Lee, Rachel C. (editor) (Routledge, 2014)
      "The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the ...

    • The Routledge introduction to African American literature 

      Miller, D. Quentin (Routledge, 2016)
      The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students ...

    • The transnationalism of American culture : literature, film, and music 

      Davis, Rocío G. (edit) (Routledge, 2012)
      This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume’s ...

    • The world, the text, and the Indian : global dimensions of Native American literature 

      Lyons, Scott Richard (editor) (State University of New York Press, 2017)
      Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, ...

    • This is all I choose to tell : history and hybridity in Vietnamese American literature 

      Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy (Temple University, 2011)
      In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing ...