Search results for "American Literature"
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Doctorow, E. L. (1931-2015)
2021
E. L. Doctorow was one of the most important novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This essay outlines his literary career, highlighting his significant works, the historical context in which he wrote and was first read and the enduring significance of his writing.
Polish Translations of Anglo-American Literature and the Question of Ideology : From Romanticism to Twentieth-Century Avant-Gardes
2017
Ideology has always influenced translation, yet this fact became a topic of scholarly research only in the 1990s. The working of ideology in literary translations most often manifests itself as a conflict of value systems. From vast reservoir of foreign sources, the native axiology absorbs values that it needs to sustain its culture. It is not a coincidence that Anglo-American literature, propagating ideas of democracy and individual freedom, became popular in Poland in the first half of the nineteenth-century when Poland did not exist as a state. Only a century later, American literature was the most popular of all foreign literatures in pre-1939 Poland. World War II changed this situation…
Introduction “‘Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter” A one-day conference on Literary Controversyin Great Britain and the United States (1…
2017
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Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
2023
Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...
Compte rendu de "La Réinvention de Shakespeare sur la scène littéraire américaine" de Ronan Ludot-Vlasak. Transatlantica [online] (1 | 2015), URL: ht…
2015
“The Civil War and the Call for Southern Literature”
1991
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“Anatomizing America: Science and the Rhetoric of Literary Nationalism in theNineteenth Century”
1997
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Compte rendu de "Eclats de voix : crises en représentation dans la littérature nord-américaine," ed. Christine Raguet-Bouvart. Revue Française d’Etud…
1996
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