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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American literature--20th century"”.
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Contemporary American Authors' Questioning of Religion
The problem. In contemporary American fiction it was noted that religion frequently appeared as a topic of debate. In some novels a major theme was a debate over whether to accept, change, or reject organized religion. Procedure. Several contemporary novels relating to this theme were read. Then …
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
The Hollywood Novel is an American regional fiction genre that treats characters working in the film industry either in Hollywood or with a Hollywood production company on location. Although pre-Hollywood film novels set in the eastern filmmaking capitals flourished as early as 1912, the Hollywood …
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El nuevo historicismo y la otredad en la narrativa contemporánea nicaragüense : el caso de Sergio Ramírez.
… tendencias fundamentales de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea junto con la literatura de mujeres y la narrativa detectivesca. Nuestro análisis, de carácter ecléctico, inclinado hacia la crítica ideológica nuevo-historicista que proponen Fernando Aínsa, María Cristina Pons y Seymour …
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Alcohol and alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The sun also rises’
… Lost Generation in the 1920s: a time in which American Prohibition was taking place, and so many Americans moved to European countries. The introduction will introduce the history of alcohol; problems arising from alcohol, such as alcoholism and binge drinking; the representation of alcohol use …
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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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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… looking at novels written in the early Twentieth century, I am able to analyze characters at a historical moment in which work was of great import. With the labor movement at its peak, these novels, particularly those which specifically address socialism, participate in an understanding of work as …
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the Vanishing American' Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type …
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La justicia y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… muestra significativa de la cuentística latinoamericana de la segunda parte del siglo veinte considerando como caso de estudio los cuentos "Luvina" de Juan Rulfo, "La siesta del martes" de Gabriel García Márquez y "El regalo" de Rosario Ferré. Mediante la perspectiva de la crítica cultural, se …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
… a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm and analyze drowning scenes in several pre-twentieth century works to establish the tradition which twentieth-century women writers begin to transcend. In Chapter 2, I …
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Felicidade e tecnologia em Fahrenheit 451
Resumo - A tecnologia faz parte da vida do ser humano, constituindo a força motriz que impulsiona a sua evolução. Paralelamente, a busca da felicidade é uma constante que define o indivíduo, independentemente de diferenças económicas, sociais ou culturais. Todavia, a relação entre felicidade e …
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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 …