Search Results - "consciousness"

American wild zones : space, experience, consciousness /

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Worldly acts and sentient things the persistence of agency from Stein to DeLillo / by Chodat, Robert, 1970-

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American metempsychosis Emerson, Whitman, and the new poetry / by Corrigan, John Michael

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Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts transition states in the American Renaissance / by Mills, Bruce, 1958-

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

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Philosophies of Sex : Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite /

Table of Contents: “…From self-erasure to self-possession : the development of Julia Ward Howe's feminist consciousness /…”
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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Transnationalism, planetary consciousness, and American studies /…”
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A Thousand Words : Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism / by Hovey, Jaime

Table of Contents: “…Picturing yourself: portraits, self-consciousness, and modernist style -- Talking pictures -- Caricature studies -- Forgery, or, Faking it -- Afterword: Looking back: modernism was yesterday.…”
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Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.…”
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Triangulations narrative strategies for navigating latino identity / by Vázquez, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity -- Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness -- Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw -- Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality -- I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez -- New millennial triangulations.…”
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Sentimentalism in nineteenth-century America literary and cultural practices /

Table of Contents: “…Desired and Imagined Loss as Sympathetic Identification: Bachelor Melancholia in Donald Grant Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor / Maglina Lubovich -- The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Adam Bradford -- "Such Verses for My Body Let Us Write": Civil War Song, Sentimentalism, and Whitman's Drum-Taps / Robert Arbour -- Psychological Sentimentalism: Consciousness, Affect, and the Sentimental Henry James / George Gordon-Smith -- Afterword / Mary Louise Kete.…”
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Complicating constructions race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts /

Table of Contents: “…Schultheis -- Portnoy's neglected siblings: a case for postmodern Jewish American literary studies / Derek Parker Royal -- Tension, conversation, and collectivity: examining the space of double consciousness in the search for shared knowledge / Sheree Meyer, Chauncey Ridley, & Olivia Castellano -- When hybridity doesn't resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-yo boing! …”
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Living Labor : Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work / by Entin, Joseph B.

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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

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