Kevin R Mcnamara
Biographic Data
| ID | 995753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin R Mcnamara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnamara |
| SIGNATURE | MCNAMARA K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston - Clear Lake |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary …
Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans
Book Review| September 01 2014 Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward. By Salvaggio, Ruth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2012. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95; e-book, $29.95.Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagin…
Urban Underworlds
Book Review| March 01 2012 Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture. By Heise, Thomas. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2010. xi, 292 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $24.95.An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America. By Connolly, James J.. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. xiv,…
New York Nocturne
Book Review| March 01 2010 New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950; New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama Kevin R. McNamara Kevin R. McNamara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 218–220. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-089 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…
Painting the Town
Urban Verbs
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography-discourses he treats as form-producing arts in own right-shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that …
RoadFrames
'Unusually lively, astute, and persuasive' - Publishers Weekly. 'There are two impulses after reading Kris Lackey's RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative. One is to rush into a library. The other is to jump into a car...The author manages to convey the deep appeal of endless asphalt while still debunking many of the myths of Americans' romance with the road' - Chronicle of Higher Education. 'Lackey applies with relish a number of convincing …
"Blade Runner's" Post-Individual Worldspace
The Feathered Scribe
B IRDERS interested in American history are fond of noting that Columbus knew he was near land when he saw a flock of migrating birds.1 Thus Europe's discovery of the New World is synchronous with the discovery of New World birds. This fact is not just a starting point for the present article; Columbus's use of the birds is symptomatic of the next three hundred years of American ornithological writing. He was not interested in determining the spe…
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The Feathered Scribe
B IRDERS interested in American history are fond of noting that Columbus knew he was near land when he saw a flock of migrating birds.1 Thus Europe's discovery of the New World is synchronous with the discovery of New World birds. This fact is not just a starting point for the present article; Columbus's use of the birds is symptomatic of the next three hundred years of American ornithological writing. He was not interested in determining the spe…
"Blade Runner's" Post-Individual Worldspace
Urban Verbs
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography-discourses he treats as form-producing arts in own right-shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that …
RoadFrames
'Unusually lively, astute, and persuasive' - Publishers Weekly. 'There are two impulses after reading Kris Lackey's RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative. One is to rush into a library. The other is to jump into a car...The author manages to convey the deep appeal of endless asphalt while still debunking many of the myths of Americans' romance with the road' - Chronicle of Higher Education. 'Lackey applies with relish a number of convincing …
Painting the Town
New York Nocturne
Book Review| March 01 2010 New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950; New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama Kevin R. McNamara Kevin R. McNamara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 218–220. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-089 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…
Urban Underworlds
Book Review| March 01 2012 Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture. By Heise, Thomas. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2010. xi, 292 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $24.95.An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America. By Connolly, James J.. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. xiv,…
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary …
Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans
Book Review| September 01 2014 Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward. By Salvaggio, Ruth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2012. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95; e-book, $29.95.Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagin…
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