The Locator -- [(subject = "Literature--Study and teaching Higher")]

212 records matched your query       

Record 18 | Previous Record | MARC Display | Next Record | Search Results
Author:
Moretti, Franco, 1950- author.
Title:
Far country : scenes from American culture / Franco Moretti.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
FarrarStraus and Giroux,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
vi, 132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)
Comparative literature.
Arts--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Teaching in America -- Walt Whitman or Charles Baudelaire? -- Prose and history in "Big two-hearted river" -- Day and night : on the counterpoint of western and film noir -- Conflict in Death of a salesman -- Amsterdam, New Amsterdam.
Summary:
"Moretti's thoughts on teaching literature in American universities, with excursions not just on novels and plays but also film, painting, and intellectual life in general"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0374272700
9780374272708
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1036204859
LCCN:
2018034448
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

Initiate Another SILO Locator Search

This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.