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American Literature, American Culture is the first comprehensive anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years and the first collection to bring together the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique. This unique anthology assembles reviews of early works, major critical essays, excerpts from landmark studies, and the most influential examples of the criticism practiced today. The selections address the dominant questions in the American literary tradition: What are the cultural responsibilities of the American writer? What are the characteristics of a national literature? Is a national literature even possible? How do gender and race affect the way we understand literature? What role does literature play in a democratic society? Organized chronologically, the four sections of the volume gather the most vital and enduring arguments in American literary and cultural politics in each era, covering such prominent issues as American exceptionalism, the racial divide, gender, and class identity. The book pays particular attention to the historical background of contemporary debates about multiculturalism.

Sociology of literature --- American literature --- History --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Literature and society --- Criticism --- Littérature américaine --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Littérature et société --- Critique --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Littérature américaine --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Littérature et société --- Théorie, etc --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc

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Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of the American middle-class's confrontation with modernity. Reading these novels now offers an extraordinary opportunity to witness debates about what kind of nation America would become and what place its newly dominant middle class would have--and, Hutner suggests, should also lead us to wonder how our own contemporary novels will be remembered.

Littérature réaliste --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1920-1929 --- American fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Literature and society --- United States --- History --- Realism in literature. --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism.

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From the American Revolution to the present, the United States has enjoyed a rich and persuasive visual culture. These images have constructed, sustained, and disseminated social values and identities, but this unwieldy, sometimes untidy form of cultural expression has received less systematic attention than other modes of depicting American life. Recently, scholars in the humanities have developed a new critical approach to reading images and the cultural work they perform. This practice, American cultural iconography, is generating sophisticated analyses of how images organize our public life. The contributions to this volume exhibit the extraordinary scope and interpretive power of this interdisciplinary study while illuminating the dark corners of the nation's psyche. Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerreotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to teach us who we are and who we are not. They examine mimesis in elegant portraits of black Freemasons, industrial-age representations of national parks, and postwar photographs of atomic destruction. They consider how visual culture has described and disclosed the politics of racialized sexuality, whether subconsciously affirming it in the shadows of film noir or deliberately contesting it through the interethnic incest of John Sayles's Lone Star. Students of literature, film, and history will find that these essays extend the frontier of American studies. The contributors are Maurice Wallace, Dennis Berthold, Alan Trachtenberg, Shirley Samuels, Jenny Franchot, Cecelia Tichi, Eric Lott, Bryan C. Taylor, and José E. Limón.

National characteristics [American ] --- Group identity --- United States --- History --- Civilization --- Symbolism --- Social aspects --- Arts and society --- Identite collective --- Art --- Caractere national americain. --- National characteristics, American. --- Group identity. --- Civilization. --- Arts and society. --- Arts et societe --- Americains. --- Symbolisme --- Aspect social --- Histoire. --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Etats -Unis --- United States. --- États-Unis --- Civilisation. --- American Ground Zero. --- American Opinion. --- Angel Face. --- Anglo-African Magazine. --- Art and Illusion. --- Atomic Spaces. --- Autobiography. --- Billy Budd. --- Democratic Review. --- Double Indemnity. --- Encyclopedia. --- Enola. --- Film noir. --- Grandissimes. --- Gunsmoke. --- Harper's Weekly. --- Hiroshima in America. --- Little Lone Star. --- Mildred Pierce. --- Nation. --- Othello. --- Our Lives, Our Children. --- Our National Parks. --- Photography. --- Picture Theory. --- Politics. --- Studies in Iconology. --- Symbolism. --- Touch of Evil. --- Tribune. --- Uncle Tom's Cabin. --- ambivalence. --- clergyman. --- cultural iconography. --- discursive processes. --- effects. --- fabulously textual. --- her own. --- hibakusha. --- immemorial personage. --- insomnia. --- metapictures. --- nautical Murats. --- organization. --- oversight. --- patriarch. --- phallic. --- relationships. --- seclusion. --- vaquero. --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- American national characteristics --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Primitive --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Aesthetics --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Américains --- Humour américain --- Arts plastiques --- Arts visuels --- Beaux-arts --- Et l'art --- Oeuvres d'art --- Archéologie --- Archéologie et art --- Art-thérapie --- Art et anthropologie --- Art et camouflage --- Art et cinéma --- Art et danse --- Art et design --- Art et diplomatie --- Art et ésotérisme --- Art et exil --- Art et société --- Art et géographie --- Art et handicapés --- Art et histoire --- Art et industrie --- Art et mondialisation --- Art et musique --- Art et photographie --- Art et politique --- Art et publicité --- Art et sciences --- Art et technologie --- Artothèques --- Bibliothèques d'art --- Carrière --- Centres d'art --- Collections d'art --- Communication visuelle et art --- Critique d'art --- Dans l'art --- Droit et art --- Expertise --- Féminisme et art --- Homosexualité et art --- Iconographie --- Iconophagie --- Idéologie et art --- Liberté et art --- Marchands d'oeuvres d'art --- Matériel d'artistes --- Médias et art --- Mode et art --- Modèles --- Philosophie et art --- Photographie d'oeuvres d'art --- Psychanalyse et art --- Psychologie de l'art --- Reproduction --- Rôle selon le sexe dans l'art --- Sémiotique et art --- Sociologie de l'art --- Transidentité et art --- Vie artistique --- Allégorie (art) --- Art colonial --- Art d'amateurs --- Art dans la rue --- Art dissident --- Art en décoration intérieure --- Art enfantin --- Art érotique --- Art fantastique --- Art figuratif --- Art monumental --- Appropriation (art) --- Art naïf --- Art narratif --- Art olfactif --- Art pariétal --- Art populaire --- Art primitif --- Art public --- Art religieux --- Arts décoratifs --- Arts graphiques --- Architecture --- Caprices (art) --- Chefs-d'oeuvre (art) --- Création collective (art) --- Détails (art) --- Empreinte (art) --- Esquisses (art) --- Fantasy (art) --- Formalisme (art) --- Fragments (art) --- Imitation (art) --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Ligne (art) --- Mouvements artistiques --- Multiples (art) --- Oeuvres d'art disparues --- Oeuvres d'art inachevées --- Orientalisme (art) --- Paléoart --- Parodie (art) --- Peinture --- Personnification (art) --- Point (art) --- Primitivisme (art) --- Reflets (art) --- Sculpture --- Séries (art) --- Sublime (art) --- Titres d'oeuvres d'art --- Transparence (art) --- Art animalier --- Art anonyme --- Art brut --- Conscience collective --- Différence (sociologie) --- Identités collectives --- Identification sociale --- Identité communautaire --- Identité culturelle --- Identité de groupe --- Identité ethnique --- Identité politique --- Identité raciale --- Identité sociale --- Berbérisme --- Conscience historique --- Différenciation sociale --- Dynamique des groupes --- Mémoire collective --- Passing --- Socialisation politique --- Caractère national --- Conscience de classe --- Conscience de race --- Ethnicité --- Francité --- Icônes culturelles --- Identité collective --- Identité professionnelle --- Nationalisme --- Patriotisme --- Identité (psychologie) --- Psychologie sociale --- Faux --- Histoire --- Location et prêt --- Matériaux --- Mutilation, dégradation, etc. --- Philosophie --- Politique publique --- Provenance --- Publics --- Technique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Vol (droit) --- Assurance --- Attribution --- Catalogage --- art --- Conservation et restauration --- Édition --- Étude et enseignement --- [Localisations géographiques] --- Remakes --- Styles --- identité --- Aspect politique --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattnė --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- SUA --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- États-Unis --- Vin de Californie --- Cuisine américaine --- Arts noirs américains --- Musique populaire --- Musique traditionnelle --- Américanisation --- France --- Civilisation -- Influence américaine --- Prêt et location entre musées --- Réitérations (art) --- Style

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Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and where their neglect would be most damaging for the nation. The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. For instance, they deplore the push by administrations to narrow learning into quantifiable outcomes as well as the demands of state governments for more practical, usable training. Indeed, for those who suggest that a college education should be "practical"-that it should lean toward the sciences and engineering, where the high-paying jobs are-this book points out that while a few nations produce as many technicians as the United States does, America is still renowned worldwide for its innovation and creativity, skills taught most effectively in the humanities. Most importantly, the essays in this collection examine ways to make the humanities even more effective, such as offering a broader array of options than the traditional major/minor scheme, options that combine a student's professional and intellectual interests, like the new medical humanities programs. A democracy can only be as energetic as the minds of its citizens, and the questions fundamental to the humanities are also fundamental to a thoughtful life. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities-and our citizens-even stronger in the future.

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