Sentences with phrase «american literary culture»

Sixty years ago, Catholics played a prominent, prestigious, and irreplaceable part in American literary culture.

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The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential univerCulture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential univerculture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest.

As a young man, delving into Schwartz's life with only a partial idea of what he was doing, Atlas was nonetheless able to meet many of his fast - vanishing heroes from the New York literary world who had inspired him to become a critic in the first place: Philip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin — giants who held sway over American culture in a bygone, arguably more literate age.

An independent press since 1974, McPherson & Company publishes literary nonfiction and fiction (contemporary American and British fiction; translated Italian, French, and Spanish fiction), books in the arts and general culture, and a rediscovery series, Recovered Classics.

Exploring the painful history of American race relations through large - scale silhouette installations, Walker's work transforms historical materials, literary sources and popular culture, challenging us to access buried emotions about our nation's past.

In 1939, young American art and literary critic Clement Greenberg published a seminal essay about the state of culture, memorably titled «Avant - Garde and Kitsch.»

The Creative Currents Summer Artist Residency attracts a diverse and talented set of individuals interested in the visual, literary, and performing arts and cultures of Africa and the Black Diaspora, ethnographic and anthropological research, Spanish and Latin American Studies, and responsible and ethical tourism.

Lucy Mensah is a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned a Ph.D. in English, with a focus on 20th - century African American literary and visual culture.

Spector has written extensively on topics in contemporary art and culture for American Craft, Artforum, Art on Paper, and New Art Examiner, among other publications, and he is currently art editor for the literary / arts magazine, december.

El Museo del Barrio is dedicated to present the rich variety of cultures with a wide range of collections and exhibitions of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American - centered film, literary, performi...

He possessed an extraordinary facility for weaving a rich tapestry of literary, biblical, mythological, popular culture, and western and non - western themes in his prints that were also informed by his African - American cultural experiences.