Spotlights
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
- Cricles and Lines
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
SpotlightRead MoreThis new volume of AMERICANA eBooks, part of the Szeged Series in American Studies (SZESAS), addresses the issue of US society and culture at the threshold of crisis and healing in a selection of American literary representations. American society and culture has mostly been fragmented along many fracture lines, and the volume offers a collection of essays that focus on literary representations of these. The papers explore a diverse range of texts from highly canonized to almost marginal by interrogating the possibilities of transformation, agency, and the limits to healing. The...
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
SpotlightRead MoreThis volume of Americana eBooks has been designed to explore the theme of crisis in US culture and history, showing specific concern with changes generated by critical periods in the country’s history. As well as spanning various periods, the chapters encompass a diversity of topics and approaches ranging from historical linguistics through contemporary popular culture and film studies. With few exceptions, they all revolve around the problem of change and transformation – a concomitant effect of crisis – probing into its wider significance in American culture.
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Cricles and Lines
SpotlightRead MoreThis book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle—across planets, across identities, across the very boundaries of time—and explores the diverse implications of her protagonists’ voyages, as acts of escape, confrontation, healing, and transformation. Through close readings of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Telling, and the late stories that reflect on and challenge the traditional quest formula, it argues that Le Guin’s characters are frequently denied the possibility of return, and must...
