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Prodigals and Pilgrims

The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

By: Jay Fliegelman

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Prodigals and Pilgrims

The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

By: Jay Fliegelman

The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521317266

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9780521317269

Declaring Independence

Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance

By: Jay Fliegelman

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Declaring Independence

Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance

By: Jay Fliegelman

Preoccupied with the spectacle of sincerity, the quest for a natural language led paradoxically to a greater theatricalization of public speaking as well as to a new social dramaturgy and a deeply self-conscious performative understanding of selfhood. Concerned with recovering what was assumed but not spoken in the realm of eighteenth-century speech and action, the book treats Jefferson (whose fascination with Homer, Ossian, Patrick Henry, and music theory all relate to the new oratorical ideal) as a conflicted participant in the new rhetoric and a witness to its social costs and benefits

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Stanford University Press

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0804720762

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9780804720762

Reconstituting the American Renaissance

Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

By: Jay Grossman

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Reconstituting the American Renaissance

Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

By: Jay Grossman

DIVOffers a revised view of the American Renaissance that shows (a) how the debates about political representatives as they developed around the framing and ratifications of the U.S. Constitution have structured the rhetoric of subsequent generations of writ/div

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Duke University Press

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0822331160

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9780822331162

American Literature and the Culture Wars

By: Gregory S. Jay

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American Literature and the Culture Wars

By: Gregory S. Jay

Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What is the appropriate purpose and scope of such pursuits? Is the notion of a traditional canon of great books out of date? Where does American literature leave off and Mexican or Caribbean or Canadian or postcolonial literature begin? Are today's campus conflicts fueled more by economics or ideology? Jay addresses these questions and others relating to American literary studies to explain why this once arcane academic discipline found itself so often in the news during the culture wars of the 1990s. While asking some skeptical questions about new directions and practices, Jay argues forcefully in favor of opening the borders of American literary and cultural analysis. He relates the struggle for representation in literary theory to a larger cultural clash over the meaning and justice of representation, then shows how this struggle might expand both the contents and the teaching of American literature. In an account of the vexed legacy of the Declaration of Independence, he provides a historical context for the current quarrels over literature and politics. Prominent among these debates are those over multiculturalism, which Jay takes up in an essay on the impasses of identity politics. In closing, he considers how the field of comparative American cultural studies might be constructed.

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254

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Cornell University Press

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1501731270

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9781501731273

Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing

By: Bryan Jay Wolf

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Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing

By: Bryan Jay Wolf

The result is a Vermeer we have not seen before: a painter whose serene spaces and calm subjects incorporate within themselves, however obliquely, the world's troubles. Vermeer abandons what his predecessors had labored so carefully to achieve: legible spaces, a world of moral clarity defined by the pressure of a hand against a table or the scatter of light across a bare wall. Instead Vermeer complicated Dutch domestic art and invented what has puzzled and captivated his admirers ever since: the odd daubs of white pigment, dancing across the plane of the canvas; patches of blurred surface, contradicting the painting's illusionism without explanation; and the querulous silence that endows his women with secrets they dare not reveal.".

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University of Chicago Press

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0226905047

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9780226905044

Declaring Independence

Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance

By: Jay Fliegelman

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Declaring Independence

Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance

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Stanford University Press

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Prodigals and Pilgrims

The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

By: Jay Fliegelman

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The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

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Prodigals and Pilgrims

Prodigals and Pilgrims

Declaring Independence

Declaring Independence

Reconstituting the American Renaissance

Reconstituting the American Renaissance

American Literature and the Culture Wars

American Literature and the Culture Wars

Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing

Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing

Declaring Independence

Declaring Independence

Prodigals and Pilgrims

Prodigals and Pilgrims

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