Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature written by David M. Cook and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small Twon in American Literature written by Ima Honaker Herron and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature written by Albert Alan Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Town America written by Richard R. Lingeman and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of America is the history of its small towns. For better or worse, small town values, convictions, and attitudes have shaped the psyche of this nation...[This book] chronicles the rise and fall of small towns from the Atlantic to the Pacific and interweaves the story of their development with the main strands of American history..."--inside flap.
Download or read book Places to Come from written by Mark Ethan Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Town in American Literature written by Ima Herron and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature 1915 1930 written by A. E. Wallace Maurer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature and History written by Virgil Albertini and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small Town in American Literature Edited by David M Cook Craig G Swauger Third Printing written by David M. COOK (Professor of English, and SWAUGER (Craig Giffen)) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Town America written by and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And his poignant, engaging text, grounded in his memories of his own small town upbringing and populated by characters he has met in the course of his work, brings to life the essence of the small town experience.
Download or read book The small town in American literature written by C. David Mead and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Nostalgia written by Nathanael T. Booth and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typically, the small town in fiction is critiqued0́4or, at worst, ignored0́4as a form of nostalgia. Readers seem to go to small-town fiction as a means of seeking safety and escape from the pressures of Modernity. For some critics, such as Ryan Poll, this safety is dangerous, the small town an ideological construct which masks the workings of American imperialism. I argue that, to the contrary, the small town serves as a model in which authors examine the tensions inherent in American life. To say that a thing is a model is not to say that it is an ideal. Rather, as with scientific models, authors create arenas in which they can test American ideas and ideals. This dissertation focuses on the years during and following World War II, a time in which America found itself thrust decisively onto the world stage. At precisely the time when America was firmly established as a world power, authors writing about the small town used this national-imaginary model as a way of critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of the American experiment. My analysis is arranged spatially. Each location in the small town0́4Main Street, the church, the courthouse, the outskirts and the graveyard0́4are places of tension, places in which the ambiguities and anxieties of America at mid-century are played out. By examining the small town as such a model, the ways in which the small town functions as something beyond nostalgia become clear0́4nostalgia, in a redemptive sense, becomes a creative and interrogative force in American literature.
Download or read book American Small Town Fiction 1940 1960 written by Nathanael T. Booth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town's potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.
Download or read book The Image of the Small Town in American Literature and Buck Island Summer Tales written by Richard Newman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small Town in American Fiction North of the Mason Dixon Line written by Amber A. Luck and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical essay discusses ways in which American ambivalence toward small-town life becomes evident in fictional narratives that are set in small towns of the northern United States. By analyzing two classic works of small-town fiction and seven works written from the 1970s to the present, including an original short story written by the author of this essay, this study shows that fictional small towns share many common features. Though most authors of small-town fiction reference their own experiences as citizens of small towns, their depictions of the town are clearly influenced by those of their precursors. Since the literary "revolt from the village" that occurred between 1915 and 1930, small towns have been portrayed in predominantly negative ways. Characters in small-town fiction must respond to a number of common challenges, including gossip, narrow standards of propriety within the community, and a lack of opportunity for higher education or fulfilling work. As a result of these challenges, the plots of these narratives often on a character's decision to either leave the small town for the wider world or to remain in the safe, if flawed, confines of the town.
