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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American Pastoral"”.
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… as represented in two novels, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084. Each novel narrates a moment in the world revolution of 1968, and through that moment, unfolds themes of revolution, terrorism, and the variety of aftermaths such events called forth within the …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… as represented in two novels, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084. Each novel narrates a moment in the world revolution of 1968, and through that moment, unfolds themes of revolution, terrorism, and the variety of aftermaths such events called forth within the …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… the use of apocalypse and elegy in contemporary American literature has been explored in an attempt to draw some conclusions about America's complex twenty-first century consciousness. I have selected the millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo (Underworld), and Philip Roth …
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Reinventing the golden age ballpark and the pastoral ideal : a new home for the Boston Red Sox on Fort Point Channel
… the relationship between the development of the American city, the pastoral ideal (a longing for a more rural and simple past) and the game of baseball, the urban ballpark has been the focus of little attention, particularly in the fields of architecture, urban design, and American cultural …
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Anthropology of nostalgia : primitivism and the antimodern vision in the American Southwest, 1880-1930
… into the land, wedding artisanal, agrarian, and pastoral lives into an integrated vision of ethnicity and region, a spirit of the desert and of the sky. Here only, the modernist regional aesthete would argue, could the authentic American pastoral be found: "there is that genuineness of unfettered …
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A theological and marital interactional analysis of African American Christian couples
… this dissertation was to examine fifty African American Christian couples in the Black Church using an observational research design that considers the influences of religiosity, spirituality and the sanctification of marriage in the Black Church. The second major focus of this marital research …
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
… explores the role of the backwoods hunter in American literature and culture during the Early National period, especially as it was embodied by Daniel Boone and by James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo. I use these figures to examine how popular perceptions of the sustenance hunter underwent …
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Il vero e il convenzionale: rappresentazioni della realtà nel romanzo contemporaneo
… Nathan Zuckerman e sui dispositivi narrativi di "American Pastoral" (1997), di "El mal de Montano" di Enrique Vila-Matas (2002), di "Troppi paradisi" (2006) di Walter Siti, di "Underworld" di Don DeLillo (1997), di "Les particules élémentaires" (1998) di Michel Houellebecq e di "Les …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… and The Witches of Eastwick) and Philip Roth (American Pastoral) use to create a sense of the Sixties in these novels and how they build their characterisation of the times. The exegesis concludes with an account of the creative practice involved in imagining and realising the novel, with a …
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If I Could Tell
… story Haji Murat, Graham Greene's The Quiet American, Alain Robbe-Grillers The Erasers, Philip Roth's American Pastoral and, more recently, Martin Amis's House of Meetings. Throughout, I found myself returning to the notion expressed by the writer in Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters, who says …