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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"American fiction"”.
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Trauma in Chinese North American Fiction
Als Trauma wird ein qualvoller Zustand bezeichnet, der zu einer Destabilisierung des individuellen und kollektiven Wohlbefindens führt und besondere Herausforderungen an unser Leben stellt. Diese Studie untersucht das Phänomen Trauma als interpretatives Werkzeug sowie als strategischen Tropus und …
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Secularism Narratives And Arab American Fiction
"Secularism Narratives and Arab American Fiction" focuses on contemporary fiction's challenge to the liberal political construction of minority religious practices and community life as incompatible with modernity, progress, and secularism. U.S. secularism is not simply the absence of religion from …
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The present tendencies of American fiction
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
Many American novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries discuss prostitution. Some works like Reginald Wright Kauffman's The House of Bondage, (1910) exaggerate the threat of "white slavery," but others like David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1917) more …
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The Continuance of Romance in American Fiction
Critics recognize an important tradition of American romance in the nineteenth century, yet they pay little if any serious attention to the continuing tradition of romance in the literature of this century.
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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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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… class, sexuality, religion, and politics. Fictional marriages, therefore, traditionally signal a return to social order, an affirmation of the dominant values of a given culture. Some writers, however, especially those writing on or about the American frontier, recognized in the institution …
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… examines both "realism" and "modernism" in U.S. fiction between 1880 and 1930 as reactions to the capitalist, industrial city, which serves as the site of the changes and the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of …
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Simultaneous Diversity: Discontinuity, Entanglement, and Contemporary American Fiction
… Discontinuity, Entanglement, and contemporary American Fiction" investigates how the rhetoric of discontinuity entangles contemporary evolutionary theory, social theory, science studies, and literary fiction. The dissertation's main focus is a partial taxonomy of the heterogeneous field of …
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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
… Through a reading of three contemporary African American fiction texts, this thesis considers the implications of reading black life through its relationship to systemic racist violence to consider the possibilities of futures for black life beyond this circumscription of a relationship to black …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates about citizenship. …
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Re(f)use: The Aesthetics of Waste In American Fiction
<p>In 'Refuse: The Aesthetics of Waste in American Fiction,' I analyze works of contemporary literature by Pynchon, DeLillo, and Wallace, among others--authors whose attention to garbage (and the sea change in twentieth-century literary aesthetics that this attention suggests) offers a vital new …
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An annotated bibliography of American fiction for high school students
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of English, 1949
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ECOCUIR AESTHETICS: GENDER, ECOLOGY AND FORM IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
This dissertation examines the intersection of gender and ecology in contemporary literature from Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. From a cuir and ecological perspective that seeks to dismantle binaries such as masculine/feminine and the human/non-human and nature/culture divides, the texts I …
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Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Lithuania in American Fiction
… and, in a sense, rediscover, Lithuania for Americans through literature written in the U.S. I argue that American literature about Lithuania and Lithuanians exists and is not restricted to Upton Sinclair's famous bestseller The Jungle. The works I included belong to either the American, …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
… Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900-1945"" credits modern fiction as a principle architect of twentieth-century American abortion politics. Drawing together a wide range of abortion plots from canonical, avant-garde and popular early twentieth-century texts, …
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Paradoxical Resolutions: James Joyce and Contemporary American Fiction - Multicommodity Model
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
… Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction examines the ways in which Irish American writers construct "Irishness" in fictional texts which borrow from and respond to literary and cultural discourses in the United States and Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth …
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DADA / USA: connections between the Dada movement and eight American fiction writers
… CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE DADA MOVEMENT AND EIGHT AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS The purpose of this thesis is to investigate, within the theoretical framework of intertextuality, the connections between the Dada movement and eight expatriate American fiction writers and to illustrate its impact on their …
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