Modes and facets of the American scene : studies in honor of Cristina Giorcelli / ed. Dominique Marçais.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giorcelli, Cristina.

Marçais, Dominique.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--1945-.

United States.

Civilization.

American literature--European influences.

American literature.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

397 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Palermo : ILA Palma, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction / Dominique Marçais

A round figure / Viola Sachs

Abraham Lincoln, the 1960s, and Barack Obama: restoring the lost connections / Alexander Bloom

Footnoting Henry James's The Wings of the Dove / Alide Cagidemetrio

Interest, contexts, and languages: intellectual history and the writing of the life of an American romantic / Charles Capper

The black muckraker in J. McHenry Jones's Hearts of Gold: rediscovered texts, pedagogy, and the progressive era / M. Giulia Fabi

The passing of cultural contructs: Melville in the Latin Quarter/ Michel Imbert

The lessons of failure: matter and spirit in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" / Wilfred M. McClay

Child of darkness: Stephen Crane and the Black Riders and Other Lines / Giuseppe Nori

The anti-slave: from Emerson to Obama / Donald E. Pease

What would James do? Recent literary adaptations of Henry James / John Carlos Rowe

The roses of Paestum / John Paul Russo

The invisible man : what a European visitor saw in the American character / Jeffrey C. Stewart

Bartleby, Foucault, De Tocqueville: contradictions of individualism / Shira Wolosky

Ezra Pound, Paris, and L'Italie de L'Avenir: 1922-1924 / Ron Bush

Announcing the new sensibility / George Cotkin

Lionel trilling, Jane Austen, and american literature / Winfried Fluck

When monsters come home to roost. Serial killers, sovereign power, and the uncanniness of war in Patricia Cornwell's Book of the Dead / Donatella Izzo

Synesthetic strategies in angloamerican poetry (with references to other world literatures) / Andrea Mariani

A poem, a painting, and Willa Cather's museum epiphanies / John J. Murphy

I'm not there / Ross Posnock

The end and the not. Cracks in the concrete: towards a poetics of the post-industrial documentary / Paula Rabinowitz

Rome and North American native Catholics: the miracle of Kateri Tekakwitha / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

Deciphering power and diversity in the swirling bodies of modernity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Queering Spectatorship in Lea Pool's and Judith Thompson's Lost and Delirious / Maria Anita Stefanelli

Figuring loss: the rejection of impersonal aesthetics in Carole Maso's The Art Lover / Sabrina Vellucci

Notes:

"Published with the contribution of the Euro-American Studies Department of the University of Rome Three".

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788877047649

887704764X

OCLC:

889955905