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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"20th Century American Literature"”.
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Narratives of self-violence in twentieth-century US literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture
… Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture” presents thrill as a powerful thematic component centered on immediate affective gratification informing character development and narrative. This perspective rethinks theme as always having an affective dimension …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… function that humor has played in twentieth century American literature and that is reflective of American culture today—that being a constant testing of boundaries of who and what are allowed to be considered funny. Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> (1937) gives …
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Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis of Buddy Glass
J.D. Salinger's "Hapworth 16, 1924," his last published work, is notorious for the initial critical silence it received, as well as the subsequent general consensus that it was a text to revile if not avoid. This thesis proposes that while "Hapworth" is a difficult and perplexing piece, there is a …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… prophesied that the “problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.” A hundred years later, ecological crises join racial crises as perhaps the emergent problems of the twenty-first century. In Du Boisian spirit, my project explores how the color line and what I call the …