William Merrill Decker (56 results)
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Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1998
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Language: English
Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1990
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Language: English
Published by University of North Carolina Press November 1998, 1998
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Language: English
Published by University Of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1990
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; owner's name; 323 clean, unmarked pages/notes/bibliography/index.
Language: English
Published by Chapel Hill: U. Of North Carolina, 1990, Chapel Hill, 1990
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Hb. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st. Hb. VG+/VG+. 1st. 323pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed; smudge on fore-edge. Notes; biblio.; index.
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Published by Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990
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hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 255 pp. Illus. with photos (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Chapel, 1990. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like…a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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Published by The University of North Carolina Press
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chapel Hill. 1990. University of North Carolina Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807818747. 336 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Literature Literary Criticism. DESCRIPTION - In the mid-1880s, Henry Adams committed hi…mself to a posture that has since been associated with his name: neglected patrician, doomsayer, literary man whose bereavement at his wife's suicide confirmed his abandonment of an active public life. Adams (1838-1918) defined himself as other than contemporary Americans. Yet he also cast himself as the Republic's last true patriot, and beneath his reticence lay the firm belief that he was the one man who could save America - if only his voice were heard. This insightful book focuses on the relationship between Adams and his audience, emphasizing Adams's rhetorical strategies in his effort to shape a dialogue with his readers. Throughout his literary career, Adams struggled to redefine America's role as a nation of millennial promise. All the while, he was faced with mounting evidence that his country was rapidly squandering its opportunity to act as a redemptive force. William Decker explores Adams's ambition to impress this view of the Republic on the national mind and his persistent desire to create a text that would direct, both by its rational persuasiveness and by its symbological appeal, the course of an America destined to become a great world power. After his wife's suicide in 1885, Adams increasingly felt the burden of what he perceived as a historical and cosmic opposition to the millennial America in whose advocacy he had originally taken up his vocation. He revised his authorial ends and means, assuming ever more clearly the part of the voice crying in the wilderness. Although he would routinely despair of his country's public destiny, his pen would remain active as long as he lived, narrowly affirming the redemptive historical possibility. The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams is a comprehensive reading of Adams's works, giving careful attention to texts that have generally been considered minor as well as to better-known works like U.S. histories and Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Discussions of Adams's most widely read and appreciated work, The Education of Henry Adams, frame Decker's arguments. He examines the Education as the valedictory statement and enactment of Adams's ambitions as an author - and as the ultimate measure of his success. inventory #23973.
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Paperback. Condition: New. African American writing commonly represents New World topography as a set of entrapments, contesting the open horizons, westward expansion, and individual freedom characteristic of the white, Eurocentric literary tradition. Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler provides the first c…omprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression. William Merrill Decker examines how, in testifying to those conditions, fourteen black authors have sought to transform a national cartography that, well into the twenty-first century, reflects white supremacist assumptions. These writers question the spatial dimensions of a mythic American liberty and develop countergeographies in which descendants of the African diaspora lay claim to the America they have materially and culturally created.Tracking the testimonial voice in a range of literary genres, Geographies of Flight explores themes of placement and mobility in the work of Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler.
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2011
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1998
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Language: English
Published by University of North Carolina Press 11/16/1998, 1998
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications. Book.
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1998
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Language: English
Published by University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2005
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. ""Henry Adams and the Need to Know"" presents fourteen essays that art…iculate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance. Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1990
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Language: English
Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1990
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1998
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2011
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