Screen Library100 years of the American Dream : representations and conceptions in American literature, 1919-2019 /
"This collection offers examinations of the concept of the American Dream across a broad and diverse range of works. The analytical methods utilized by the authors, who are all clearly extremely knowledgeable experts in their fields, are as unique as the content they examine is varied. Each cha...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"This collection offers examinations of the concept of the American Dream across a broad and diverse range of works. The analytical methods utilized by the authors, who are all clearly extremely knowledgeable experts in their fields, are as unique as the content they examine is varied. Each chapter offers innovative insights, which, while founded on literary critique, transcend the field of literature and touch upon issues related to economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion, to name but a few."--Page 4 of cover |
| Carrier Form: | x, 153 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781527588523 1527588521 |
| Index Number: | PS221 |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
| Call Number: | I712.065/O585 |
| Contents: | The American Dream fascination with aristocracy : The Great Gatsby and a daughter of the samurai / Setsuko Adachi -- "TOMORROW IS NOW" : Amiri Baraka's nation dreams / Michael S. Begnal -- T.S. Eliot : uneasy dreamer / Brian Coates -- my dream is yours ... / Jeremy Fernando -- Ferlinghetti's aspiration for United Statesians : a human dream / Michael Kearney -- Powerful silences : examining the New Woman's femininity and relationships in silent films / Maria Kranidis -- Loneliness in the gold : the American campus novel and the corporation of the university / Jeffrey S. Markovitz -- The Beat Movement and its Asian influence as an alternative to the American Dream / Kei Saito -- Between water and land : writing as home / Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff. |