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