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Criticism of material success in the American novel
… goal in life were not moving with the grain of American opinion. The novelists who did examine the goals of American life did not condemn material success immediately, but instead their thoughts grew by gradual stages. These novels are grouped into three stages for discussion in this thesis. The …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… on four significant writers of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. First, I establish the pervasiveness of Nietzsche's influence on American society, explore the reasons for his popularity, and provide a brief review of …
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The Picaresque Tradition in The Contemporary English and American Novel
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Against death: the American novel after the end of the author
Posthumous novels ask us to re-imagine both authors and novels. In this re-imagination, we not only arrive at a new understanding of the author’s and novel’s conception, but we also infer from the posthumous novel’s entire situation a new understanding of the individual’s conception in culture. The …
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Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel
Midcentury American novelists variously reworked the traditional conversion narrative to reflect a marked cultural shift in attitude towards human "nature," newly conceived as innocent and inclined to salvation. This liberalized aesthetic of conversion takes shape through the trope of the "organic …
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The Changing Conception of The Businessman in The American Novel, 1865-1940
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
1920 saw an eruption of significant American novels portraying conflicts between individuals and community norms. These tensions between individuals and their families, churches, social classes, and towns, for example, conveyed the Progressive-era antagonisms toward civil society. In their …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… 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 readers a …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
… Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)” argues for a feminist reconsideration of strategic humor in popular women’s novels. Spanning the decades between the first successful suffrage laws in Britain and the United States and second-wave feminism of the 1960s, …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… examines the influence of World War I on American literature and its effects on the American tradition of literary realism. It does so through an analysis of five war novels written by four American authors who had participated in the conflict as combatants or volunteers. These works …
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Memory Machines: Exploring Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow Through the History of Film
… weighed comparative approaches to "the Great American Novel". Progress increased as soon as I resolved on selecting Moby-Dick as the work originally responsible for issuing that slogan. Making this particular selection required the application of a dynamic concept which, appropriately, …
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Bringing Lippard Back: Biblical Allusions, Narrative Structure, and the Treatment of Women in George Lippard's The Quaker City
… Lippard, a name scarcely recognized in today's American literature classrooms, was the author of the most popular American novel prior to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 - The Quaker City; or, the Monks of Monk Hall. Despite producing such a popular and risqué novel, Lippard and his …
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A critical examination of Francis Ebejer's English novels
Francis Ebejer's novels are highly complex because he is preoccupied with various themes which give his novels a prismatic quality. In his works, namely his plays and novels Ebejer studies Man both as a social animal and as individual with his own beliefs whether they be religious, political, moral …
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A study of the interrelations between Dos Passos' personal philosophy, objectives, and techniques and the influence of the zeitgeist on them
… Dos Passos is important to the development of American literature. His novels, with their integrity, breadth, and architectonic form, are painted on a larger canvas than any other American writers. In Manhattan Transfer, his fourth novel, he attempted to portray the greatest metropolis in the …
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Gaddis's Recognitions : The Major Theme
… Recognitions" is a highly praised contemporary American novel. Yet, relatively little has been written about the lengthy and complex masterpiece, as a summary of the criticism indicates. This dissertation, then, introduces the work through a discussion of its major theme, which involves a search …
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The Modern Black Novelist and The Apocalyptic Tradition
Modern American literature is dominated by the mood and images of apocalypse. Undoubtedly the accelerated national turmoil following the Second World War created this feeling of impending doom. The omnipresent threat of a nuclear holocaust, rapid advancements in industrial technology and increased …
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The Black Gum Well
<p>The writing of the novel as a creative thesis in American literature was a special project approved by the English department of Eastern Kentucky University. Beyond the university's departmental requirements in the course of study for a a Master of English in American literature, I did an …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… 1930s. Chapter One explores McKay’s urban North American novel, Home to Harlem (1928). I suggest that we need to ‘reworld’ conceptions of McKay’s writing in order to release him from his canonical confinement in the Harlem Renaissance. Querying the problematics of the city space, of sexuality and …
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The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East
… aspect of the subject as revealed in an American novel and in a Chinese novel. These subjects in elude the internal structure of narrative, fictionalization, the objectivity of language and the diversity of voices, the potentiality of language and the elosure of narrative, plot and the …
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Meta-naturalism in selected Twentieth Century American novels
… naturalism in selected twentieth century American novels; the term “meta-naturalism” has been chosen to denote the various aesthetic and philosophical complexities arising from a literary naturalism which goes beyond recognizable nineteenth century conventions and increasingly confronts …
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