Udvidet returret til d. 31. januar 2025

Bøger af Janis P. Stout

Filter
Filter
Sorter efterSorter Populære
  • af Janis P. Stout
    442,95 kr.

  • - A Sense of the Times
    af Janis P. Stout
    822,95 kr.

    Katherine Anne Porter's life (1890-1980) closely parallelled that of her century, not only in its span but in its interests and contradictions. She was a Communist sympathiser who later became quasi-fascist, a cosmopolitan who embraced Southern agrarianism, a femme fatale and a feminist.

  • - The City in American Fiction before 1860
    af Janis P. Stout
    847,95 kr.

    ?Stout's breadth of reading is impressive, her prose readable, and her method scholarly.?-Library Journal

  • - Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin
    af Janis P. Stout
    412,95 kr.

    Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West.

  • - The Writer and Her World
    af Janis P. Stout
    532,95 kr.

    A biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind.

  • - A Retirement Memoir
    af Janis P. Stout
    197,95 kr.

    Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach - she organizes her memories around the houses she's lived in. Houses, she claims, are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout's houses twine their way through this memoir, along with reflections on work and retirement, marriages good and bad, and quietness for engaging in the important last work of life.

  • - Patterns and Departures
    af Janis P. Stout
    687,95 kr.

    Stout identifies five basic, recurring patterns of the journey narrative: exploration and escape; To illustrate the all-inclusiveness of the journey motif in American literature Stout pursues the theme into the realm of poetry and relates the fictional journey narrative to the American historical experience.

Gør som tusindvis af andre bogelskere

Tilmeld dig nyhedsbrevet og få gode tilbud og inspiration til din næste læsning.