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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American literary canon"”.
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The American dream and literature: how the themes of self-reliance and individualism in American literature are relevant in preserving both the aesthetics and the ideals of the American dream
… paper is to examine how selected works in the American literary canon contribute to defining, constructing, and sustaining the basic principles of the American dream, in which each individual has the unlimited opportunities to achieve personal freedom and prosperity. Through the examination and …
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
… works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical information into his or her characters, the real commonalities between the fictional characters can be found in their inability to fit into a …
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THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: MELVILLE AND THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL LITERATURE
… 1930. Melville, as a member of the New York literary group Young America, participated in an effort to define and create a national literature. His apprenticeship was served under the influence of Young America, and the group's ideas about the act of writing, the defining qualities of a …
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'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction
It is widely accepted that early American literature reflects the boundless social and moral optimism of "The Great Experiment", expresses certitude in the ultimate perfectibility of man in the New World. Equally widely held is the belief that American experience in the twentieth century has …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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The Anti-Racist Avant-Garde: Modernist Legacies and Experimentation in Ralph Ellison and James Joyces’ postcolonial and racial subjects
… he cemented himself as a crucial figure in the American literary canon. His depictions of the difficulties in African American life remain crucial and relevant to this day, seventy years after their publication. The themes of nationhood, visibility, technology, and betrayal found in Ellison’s …
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Body, voice, memory: Modern Latin American women's testimonios
… and nineteenth-century essays suggest Latin American women’s proclivity for using personal narrative forms in times of national crisis in order to advance both their own political ideas and women’s rights at the same time. Twentieth-century testimonios, unlike the essays of the nineteenth …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… Indigenous intimacies have been effaced in the American literary canon. My dissertation, “The Grammar of Kinship: Black and Native Intimacies in the 19th Century” extends this discourse by exploring these intermeshed histories and the literary and legal documents that record, regulate, prohibit …
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"Bound Together . . . By Blood and Soul": Donald Davidson's Strategic Retreat into the Myth of Life in the Old South
… is his greatest contribution to the Southern and American literary canon. Despite this fact, though, Davidson is now, as he was during his lifetime, ignored because of the Regionalistic concerns that critics see in his writing. In the course of my thesis, I have striven to prove that Davidson is …
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A sturdy Black bridge : a symbolic connection among three generations of Black female poets.
… the 1960's marks a critical awakening of African-Americans to a previously and wholly unacknowledged recognition of self, family, and race. They were eager to establish an identity for themselves that included both the African and American heritages without subordinating one to the other. In The …