Nor shall diamond die : American studies in honour of Javier Coy / Carme Manuel and Paul Scott Derrick, editores.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coy Ferrer, Javier, honoree.

Manuel Cuenca, Carme, editor.

Derrick, Paul Scott, editor.

Series:

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans ; 13.

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Valencia : Universitat de València, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, 2003.

Summary:

Homenaje a Javier Coy, catedrático jubilado del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universitat de València de 1990 a 2000, y uno de los primeros investigadores en introducir los estudios norteamericanos. Se recogen 50 artículos de especialistas en este campo, qué reflejan el estado de los estudios sobre la cultura y literatura de los Estados Unidos contemporáneos.

Contents:

Human Attitudes and Their Terra Incognita in Tennessee William's Plays / Nieves Alberola Crespo

Man's Fantasy, Woman's Death: The Subtle Operations of Idealism in Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark" / Esther Alvarez López

The Image of La Folle in Kate Chopin's "Beyond the Bayou" / José Manuel Barrio Marco

Thomas Merton's Critiqué of Globalization / Fernando Beltrán Llavador

Aesthetic Pursuit or Rational Escape? James Baldwin's and Julio Cortázar's Recreation of the Jazzman as Rebel Artist / Jesús Benito Sánchez

Ron Silliman's Remarks on Post-Referential Poetry / Manuel Brito

Tracking the Female Energy of V.: Glimpses of the Pynchonian / Francisco Collado Rodríguez

Edward Riveraa and America Mythology: A Reading of Family Installments / Juan José Cruz

An Ongoing Missive to the Spirit of Bartolomeo Vanzetti / Russell Di Napoli

Latino Autobiography, the Aesthetic, and Political Criticism: The Case of Hunger of Memory / Isabel Durán

Race and Money in Pudd'snhead Wilson / Emory Elliot

Intimations on Four Poems by Wallace Stevens / Mary E. Farrell

Afro-Caribbean Women Writers and US Literary Studies: Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Elizabeth Nunez. Ana Ma Fraile Marcos

African-American Women Artists in Paris: Sex and Politics in Josephine Baker's La Revue Nègre (1925), and Maya Angelou's Porgy and Bess (1954) / María Frías

Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance: Double Consciousness, Talented Tenth, and tthe New Negro / Mar Gallego

"Into the Land of Dreams": A Pyrenean Excursion in Lee Meriwether's Seeing Europe by Automobile (1911) / Pere Gifra Adroher

Intellectual Affinities: the Southern Fugitive-Agrarians and the Spanish Generation of '98 / Montserrat Ginés

Norman Mailer: The last Tough Guy / Manuel González de la Aleja Barberán

Eudora Welty's The Optimist Daughter: The Regenerative Return to the Houses and Rooms of the Past / Constante González Groba

Metatext as Cognitive Metonymy: An Experientialist Approach to Metafiction / Juani Guerra

Hysteria and Communism in Arthur Miller's Rewritting of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People / Juan Ignacio Guijarro González

Pierre Menard in New England / David Hamilton

Not so Original, Mr. Shyalaman: A. Bierce's Elongated Shadow over The Sixth Sense / Aitor Ibarrola Armendariz

Conspiracy Theory: Chronic Psychoses in Contemporany Metafiction / Santiago Juan Navarro

Spiritual Beauties and Beautiful Colours in Edwards and Emerson / Juan José Lanero

Sources of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls / Douglas Edward LaPrade

Literary Ethics and Pragmatist Aesthetics / Antonio Lastra

Williams Carlos Williams's Travelling Culture / José Liste Noya

"The Shadow of the Wound-Mark": Poetic Witnessing in Darkness / Juan López Gavilán

Beyond Borders: The Native-American C(h)ase / Ma Felisa López Liquete

"I am so fascinated by Spain": John Dos Passos, January 1917 / Townsend Ludington

Magic Realism in Contemporary American Fiction / Ana Ma Manzanas Calvo

Whitman and America: The Biographical Commitent / Félix Martín

The Complex Fable of William Faulkner in Search of an Interpretation / Catalina Montes

Poe's American Gothic, or the Gap between Reference and Signification / Marita Nadal Blasco

"The New Buffalo": Reservation Gambling in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace / María Ruth Noriega Sánchez

Jefferson on the Constitution of Cadiz / Joaquim Oltra

The Rhetorical Dimension of Character in Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality / Elena Ortells

The Devils and Dilemmas of Feminist Biography: Writing the Life of Susan Glaspell / Barbara Ozieblo

"Caught up in the tragedy of modern history": Tradition and Modernity in John Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshhot Scandal / Daniel Pastor García

T. S. Eliot's Poetics of History and Tradition / Viorica Patea

Ontology and Epistemology of the Short Story / Mercedes Penalba García

Robert Creeley with Charles Olson, The Island ad the Painters

Nevada as the Sin State: Tweintieth-Century Fictional Portraits / David Río Raigadas

New Jersey and The Sopranos / Michael Aaron Rockland

William Gass, the Short Story, and Metafiction / Elaine B. Safer

The American Historical Novel: Gore Videl / Agustin Safón Supervía

No City of God: Urban Images in the Fiction of Nella Larsen andJessie Fauset / Pilar Sánchez Calle

Everyone Knows (?): Philip Roth's The Human Stain / Isabel Soto

Pocahontas, Mother of the New Woman in Charlotte barnes's The Forest Princess / Ruth Stoner

Joseph Cornell, Collector and Historian / Juan Antonio Suárez

From the "Rude Stream" to the Mainstream and Beyond: A Twentieth-Century Journey through Jewish American Prose / Martín Urdiales Shaw

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 8, 2015)

ISBN:

9788437055312

8437055318

OCLC:

992040107