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  1. Eugene O'Neill's America
    Desire Under Democracy
    Author: Diggins, John Patrick
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the... more

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    In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that both traces O'Neill's tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the hea

     
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    ISBN: 9780226148809
    Subjects: America ; In literature; Dramatists, American ; 20th century ; Biography; Dramatists, American ; 20th century ; Family relationships; Dramatists, American ; 20th century ; Psychology; O'Neill, Eugene ; 1888-1953 ; Criticism and interpretation; O'Neill, Eugene ; 1888-1953; Electronic books
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    Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Knowers Unknown to Ourselves; 1 · The Misery of the Misbegotten; 2 · The Playwright as Thinker; 3 · Anarchism: The Politics of the "Long Loneliness"; 4 · Beginnings of American History; 5 · "Lust for Possession"; 6 · Possessed and Self-dispossessed; 7 · "Is You a Nigger, Nigger?"; 8 · "The Merest Sham": Women and Marriage; 9 · Religion and the Death of Death; 10 · "The Greek Dream in Tragedy Is the Noblest Ever"; 11 · Waiting for Hickey; Conclusion: The Theater as Temple; Notes; Index;
  2. The pan american imagination
    contested visions of the hemisphere in twentieth-century literature
    Author: Park, Stephen M.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

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    ISBN: 9780813936673
    Series: New world studies
    Subjects: Literature and globalization; Literature; Transnationalism in literature; Pan-Americanism; Literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Pan-Americanism; Transnationalism in literature; Literature and globalization; America ; In literature; Electronic books
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    Front ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mesoamerican Modernism; 2 Hemispheric Mythologies; 3 Academic Discourse at Havana; 4 Pan American Progress; 5 Pan Americanism Revisited; 6 Decolonizing the Dance; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
  3. Edmund Wilson's America
    Author: Douglas, George H.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning... more

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    When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams.In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged fr

     
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    Subjects: America ; In literature; Criticism ; United States ; History ; 20th century; National characteristics, American, in literature; United States ; Civilization; Wilson, Edmund ; 1895-1972 ; Knowledge ; United States; Electronic books
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    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Man and His World; 2. The New Wilderness; 3. Women of the Twenties; 4. The Crumbling Moral Order; 5. Two Ailing Democracies; 6. Back to the Native Ground; 7. The World of Hecate County; 8. Our National Wound; 9. The Decadence of the Democratic State; 10. The Democratic Man of Letters; 11. Upstate; Epilogue; Chronology; The Books of Edmund Wilson: A Checklist; Bibliographical Essay; Index
  4. Canada and Its Americas
    Transnational Navigations
    Author: Siemerling, Winfried
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  MQUP, Montreal

    A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Canada and Its Americas -- DEFENDING THE NATION? -- 1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas -- 2... more

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    A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Canada and Its Americas -- DEFENDING THE NATION? -- 1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas -- 2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies -- 3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité -- INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA -- 4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject -- 5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull -- 6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada's Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse -- POSTSLAVERY ROUTES -- 7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama -- 8 "May I See Some Identification?" Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood -- QUEBEC CONNECTIONS -- 9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas -- 10 "Lucky to be so bilingual": Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context -- 11 Louis Dantin's American Life -- 12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia -- 13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël's La Conjuration des bâtards -- Contributors -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

     
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    Subjects: America ; In literature; Canada ; In literature; Canadian literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Culture in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Electronic books
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    ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Canada and Its Americas""; ""DEFENDING THE NATION?""; ""1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada�s Americas""; ""2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies""; ""3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité""; ""INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA""; ""4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject""; ""5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull""; ""6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada�s Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse""

    ""POSTSLAVERY ROUTES""""7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama""; ""8 “May I See Some Identification?� Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood""; ""QUEBEC CONNECTIONS""; ""9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas""; ""10 “Lucky to be so bilingual�: Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context""; ""11 Louis Dantin�s American Life""; ""12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia""

    ""13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël�s La Conjuration des bâtards""""Contributors""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
  5. America Unbound
    Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies
    Author: Barrenechea, Antonio
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

    This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native... more

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    This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1: The Great(er) American Paradigm: Moby-Dick and the Summa Americana -- 2: From Terra Incognita to Terra Nostra: Carlos Fuentes's Reinvention of America -- 3: Jacques Poulin's Archival Pathways: Volkswagen Blues as Discovery Chronicle -- 4: Leslie Marmon Silko's Council Book: Hemispheric Forces in Almanac of the Dead -- 5: Greater America in the Classroom: Comparative Literature, Theory, and Praxis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

     
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    Subjects: American fiction ; History and criticism; Mexican fiction ; 20th century ; History and criticism; French-Canadian fiction ; 20th century ; History and criticism; America ; In literature; Electronic books
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