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"Beginning with transcriptions of speeches by Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh, and letters penned by the Reverend Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by Black Hawk, Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and others, A New Continent of Liberty looks closely at how these authors have sought to reclaim and redefine versions of autonomy against representative Euro-American authors spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Don DeLillo. In his previous book, Hamilton charted how a vital blending of natural and human law in which the self was subordinated to both the divine and a larger human community gradually declined (from the late nineteenth century onward) into an eventual hyperautonomy in which an effectively deified self stood in sterile isolation from the rest of the world. In this new book, he demonstrates how Native American literature recovers a version of what Euro-American literature gradually lost"--

Social structure in literature. --- Natural law in literature. --- Autonomy in literature. --- American literature --- Indian authors --- History and criticism.

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Die prekäre Existenz weiblicher Hausangestellter in Küchen, Kinderzimmern und Ehebetten hat eine Vorgeschichte, die so alt ist wie die Geschichte des modernen Romans. Mit Richardsons Erfolgsroman Pamela (1740) betritt eine Figur, die bis dahin eine Randexistenz in der Komödie zu fristen hatte, die Bühne des modernen Romans: das Dienstmädchen. Ihre Karriere führt sie durch alle Gesellschaftsschichten und literarischen Gattungen. Man begegnet ihr als soziale Aufsteigerin bei Richardson, als gepeinigte Unschuld bei de Sade, frömmelnde Alte und »einfaches Herz« bei Flaubert, hysterische Magd, schließlich als Ehemonster bei Elias Canetti - bevor sie in der Angestelltenwelt des modernen Films untergeht. Über zweihundert Jahre ist sie die Verkörperung einer bis heute unaufgelösten Paradoxie: nämlich dass die Welt der bürgerlichen Familie sich zu einem intimen Binnenraum schließt, strukturell aber von der Dauerpräsenz familienfremder Personen abhängig bleibt. Das Buch analysiert den bürgerlichen Familiendiskurs von seinen Rändern und Ausgrenzungen her - in prominenter Weise bei Sigmund Freud, dessen Fallstudien vielfach von weiblichen Dienstboten handeln, die im Vater-Mutter-Kind-Mythos der Psychoanalyse keinen Platz finden.

Social structure in literature. --- Women household employees. --- European literature --- Mistresses in literature. --- Illegitimacy in literature. --- Man-woman relationships in literature. --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Themes, motives.

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Sociology of literature --- Molière --- Literature and society --- French drama (Comedy) --- Social structure in literature --- Authority in literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Molière, --- Political and social views --- Literature and society - France - History - 17th century --- French drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Molière, - 1622-1673 - Political and social views --- Molière, - 1622-1673

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This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community without effective social structures. When this is viewed from the perspective of Homeric performances in the polis, a contrast between Homer's laoi and the founding people of ritual emerges. While the former typically perish, the survival of the latter is secured by the establishment of successful institutions.

Epic poetry, Greek --- Politics and literature --- Literature and society --- Social structure in literature. --- Community life in literature. --- Oral-formulaic analysis. --- Formulaic analysis, Oral --- Folk literature --- Folklore --- Oral tradition --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Methodology --- Homer --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homère --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Political and social views. --- Social structure in literature --- Community life in literature --- Oral-formulaic analysis --- Poésie épique grecque --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature et société --- Structure sociale dans la littérature --- Communauté dans la littérature --- Analyse des formules orales --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism. --- Politics and literature - Greece. --- Literature and society - Greece. --- Homerus

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"Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days; Grace King's Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson's The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana, its four decades of rule by the Spanish, the Louisiana Purchase and the resulting cultural transformations across the region, Napoleonic law, the Code Noir, the plaçage tradition, the immigration of various ethnic and natural groups into the city, and the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles--collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the "local color" tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that "local color" literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature. Finally, Nagel shows that New Orleans provided a profoundly rich and complex setting for the literary exploration of some of the most crucial social problems in America, including racial stratification, social caste, economic exploitation, and gender roles, all of which were undergoing rapid transformation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Social problems in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Social structure in literature. --- Local color in literature. --- American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- Cable, George Washington, --- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, --- King, Grace Elizabeth, --- Chopin, Kate, --- Cable, G. W. --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, --- Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar, --- Dunbar, Alice, --- Dunbar, Alice Moore, --- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, --- Nelson, Alice Moore Dunbar-, --- Moore, Alice Ruth, --- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty, --- Chopin, Katherine O'Flaherty, --- O'Flaherty, Catherine, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- New Orleans (La.) --- Big Easy (La.) --- Crescent City (La.) --- La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) --- NOLA (La.) --- Nawlins (La.) --- Neu Orleans (La.) --- Nieuw Orleans (La.) --- Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) --- Neuva Orleans (La.) --- Nueva Orleans (La.) --- Nuova Orleans (La.) --- City of New Orleans (La.) --- Cité d'Orléans (La.) --- Orleans Parish (La.) --- In literature.