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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short
Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have
assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by
literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics
argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American
writers is integral to the development of the short story in each
country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary
short story has attained. This collection provides original
analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as
some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted
to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter,
themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story
writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol,
Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short
stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard
Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates
populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more
important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these
essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture
share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures
are deeply intertwined.
The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the
social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in
both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This
collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range
of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the
first volume. The concept of the American Dream, first expounded by
James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America in 1931, is at once both
ubiquitous and difficult to define. The term perfectly captures the
hopes of freedom, opportunity and upward social mobility invested
in the nation. However, the American Dream appears increasingly
illusory in the face of widening inequality and apparent lack of
opportunity, particularly for the poor and ethnic, or otherwise
marginalized, minorities in the United States. As such, an
understanding of the American Dream through both theoretical
analyses and empirical studies, whether qualitative or
quantitative, is crucial to understanding contemporary America.
Like the first volume of The Routledge Handbook on the American
Dream, this collection will be of great interest to students and
researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social
sciences.
Today the United States is a country divided along lines of gender,
economic inequality, educational level, and political affiliation.
Democrats typically select a different range of matters of serious
public concern compared to Republicans. Many Americans describe
difficulty in coming to terms with the demands placed on them in
their work, communities, and personal lives and achieving
satisfaction. The institutional crises that pervade our politics,
economy, educational systems, and communities have inspired a
contemporary crisis: a widespread inability for many to live as
integrated, effective selves in the twenty-first century United
States. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary
research, The Lonely Quest explores the dilemma of constructing the
self in the U.S. today.
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European Writers in Exile (Hardcover)
Robert C. Hauhart, Jeff Birkenstein; Contributions by Katherine Ashley, Katarzyna Balzewska, Rowena Clarke, …
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European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that
address the writers' universal existential dilemma, when viewed
through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I
write, and to whom? While we often understand the term "exile" to
refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home
country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be
defined so narrowly, and the contributors to this volume explore a
range of interesting and evolving definitions. Various countries in
Europe have long been both a refuge for people and writers from
many countries and a strife-torn region which has forced many to
flee within the continent or beyond it. The phrase "in exile"
involves writers moving across borders in multiple directions and
for multiple reasons, including for reasons of duress or personal
quest, and these themes are addressed and critiqued in these
essays. This volume naturally examines the cataclysmic and
near-universal exilic experiences relating to the world wars,
including essays on Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Hannah Arendt
and Leo Strauss. Additionally, essays address the unique early
twentieth-century experiences of Emile Zola, Franz Kafka, Joseph
Conrad, and James Joyce. More contemporary essay subjects include
Milan Kundera, Norman Manea, Eva Hoffman, Caryl Phillips, and W. G.
Sebald. This collection of transnational, globalized European
literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our
contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural,
historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. How does
literary production in an increasingly globalized world-when seen
from exile-affect a view back towards a country or region left
behind? Or, conversely, how does exile push a writer to look
outward to new (trans-)nationalized space(s)? These and other
questions are important to investigate. Taken in sum, European
Writers in Exile offers an academically rigorous, important, and
cohesive volume.
Historically, the United States has been viewed by generations of
immigrants as the land of opportunity, where through hard work one
can prosper and make a better life. The American Dream is perhaps
the United States' most common export. For many Americans, though,
questions remain about whether the American Dream can be achieved
in the twenty-first century. Americans, faced with global
competition and increased social complexity, wonder whether their
dwindling natural resources, polarized national and local politics,
and often unregulated capitalism can support the American Dream
today. This book examines the ideas and experiences that have
formed the American Dream, assesses its meaning for Americans, and
evaluates its prospects for the future.
Today the United States is a country divided along lines of gender,
economic inequality, educational level, and political affiliation.
Democrats typically select a different range of matters of serious
public concern compared to Republicans. Many Americans describe
difficulty in coming to terms with the demands placed on them in
their work, communities, and personal lives and achieving
satisfaction. The institutional crises that pervade our politics,
economy, educational systems, and communities have inspired a
contemporary crisis: a widespread inability for many to live as
integrated, effective selves in the twenty-first century United
States. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary
research, The Lonely Quest explores the dilemma of constructing the
self in the U.S. today.
Historically, the United States has been viewed by generations of
immigrants as the land of opportunity, where through hard work one
can prosper and make a better life. The American Dream is perhaps
the United States' most common export. For many Americans, though,
questions remain about whether the American Dream can be achieved
in the twenty-first century. Americans, faced with global
competition and increased social complexity, wonder whether their
dwindling natural resources, polarized national and local politics,
and often unregulated capitalism can support the American Dream
today. This book examines the ideas and experiences that have
formed the American Dream, assesses its meaning for Americans, and
evaluates its prospects for the future.
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