Modes and facets of the American scene
Subtitle: studies in honor of Cristina Giorcelli
By: ed. Dominique Marçais
Publisher: ILA Palma
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Palermo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9788877047649
Subjects: Civilization; American literature; European influences
Notes: "Published with the contribution of the Euro-American Studies Department of the University of Rome Three".

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dominique Marçais; title: A round figure / Viola Sachs; title: Abraham Lincoln, the 1960s, and Barack Obama: restoring the lost connections / Alexander Bloom; title: Footnoting Henry James's The Wings of the Dove /  Alide Cagidemetrio; title: Interest, contexts, and languages: intellectual history and the writing of the life of an American romantic / Charles Capper; title: The black muckraker in J. McHenry Jones's Hearts of Gold: rediscovered texts, pedagogy, and the progressive era / M. Giulia Fabi; title: The passing of cultural contructs: Melville in the Latin Quarter/ Michel Imbert; title: The lessons of failure: matter and spirit in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" / Wilfred M. McClay; title: Child of darkness: Stephen Crane and the Black Riders and Other Lines / Giuseppe Nori; title: The anti-slave: from Emerson to Obama / Donald E. Pease; title: What would James do? Recent literary adaptations of Henry James / John Carlos Rowe; title: The roses of Paestum / John Paul Russo; title: The invisible man : what a European visitor saw in the American character / Jeffrey C. Stewart; title: Bartleby, Foucault, De Tocqueville: contradictions of individualism / Shira Wolosky; title: Ezra Pound, Paris, and L'Italie de L'Avenir: 1922-1924 / Ron Bush; title: Announcing the new sensibility / George Cotkin; title: Lionel trilling, Jane Austen, and american literature / Winfried Fluck; title: 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; title: Synesthetic strategies in angloamerican poetry (with references to other world literatures) / Andrea Mariani; title: A poem, a painting, and Willa Cather's museum epiphanies / John J. Murphy; title: I'm not there / Ross Posnock; title: The end and the not. Cracks in the concrete: towards a poetics of the post-industrial documentary / Paula Rabinowitz; title: Rome and North American native Catholics: the miracle of Kateri Tekakwitha / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard; title: Deciphering power and diversity in the swirling bodies of modernity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg; title: Queering Spectatorship in Lea Pool's and Judith Thompson's Lost and Delirious / Maria Anita Stefanelli; title: Figuring loss: the rejection of impersonal aesthetics in Carole Maso's The Art Lover / Sabrina Vellucci