books by Amy Kaplan

books by Amy Kaplan

books:

Amy Kaplan

The Social Construction of American Realism (Studies in Law and Economics)
Amy Kaplan

University Of Chicago Press, 1992

Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern capitalism, particularly class conflict and the development of mass culture. Brilliant analyses of ...

Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)

Duke University Press, 1993

Foundational essays for a new school of thought
The only other reviewer (to date) has made a fair point about the density of the essays collected here and the relative obscurity of some of the subject matter. But he/she has missed the larger point of this whole volume by dwelling on the perceived shortcomings of a ...

The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)

Amy Kaplan

Harvard University Press, 2005

Installing the Circuits of Empire
In THE ANARCHY OF EMPIRE IN THE MAKING OF US CULTURE Ms. Kaplan has put together a number of illuminating readings of selected American texts as a way to explore the beginnings of empire, its expression in the U.S. in the mid to late 19th century. Her sources range ...

Talent Management Consolidation Continues: Authoria Acquires Hire.com
Amy Harris, Ron Kaplan

IDC Research, 2005

This IDC Flash looks at Massachusetts-based Authoria's intention to acquire Hire.com. The acquisition, announced on June 20, 2005, rounds out Authoria's on-demand human capital management suite with recruiting capabilities. Hire.com is Authoria's second acquisition in a year, following the June 2004 merger with Advanced Information Management Inc. ...

Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
Amy Villarejo

Duke University Press, 2003

With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation. Yet, Amy Villarejo argues, there is no final ground upon which to explain why that image of Hepburn signifies lesbian or why such a cross-dressing Hollywood fantasy ...