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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"American novels"”.
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Mrs. Trollope's American Novels
… and most famous book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), and for four novels set in America (The Refugee in America, 1832; Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, 1836; The Barnabys in America, 1842; and The Old World and the New, 1849).</p> <p>This study treats all four American novels, examining …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… and others), then transformed by Blacks in the American South into stories of the exploits of Brer Rabbit (Aunt Nancy), Slave John, and eventually, particularly in urban areas, the "Bad Nigger." Certain traditions of Afro-American literature and culture coincide with some characteristics of 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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The white saviour complex in three contemporary American novels
… Industrial Complex’ became popular when Nigerian-American Teju Cole criticised a polarising documentary, Kony 2012, in a series of social media posts. Cole argues that the complex allows white saviours to be lauded for showing support to poor Africans while ignoring the structural, systemic and …
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Narrative immediacy and first-person voice in contemporary American novels
… narration analyzes a selection of contemporary American novels so as to understand and describe more fully a literary effect I call immediacy. I employ the term immediacy to define narrative situations in which little durational gap exists between experience and narration and in which little …
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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… writers of the twentieth century have created novels that contain echoes of Eliot's poem. They are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933). I chose these particular novels because they exemplify …
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The Southwest as treated in a selected list of American novels
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1931.
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Ole Edvart Roelvaag: A Critical Study of His Norwegian-American Novels
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0015276.pdf: 13726973 bytes, checksum: b276611df4812190f4a049f3006815b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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The Forge of Life: Problems of Adolescents in American Novels, 1920-1958
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6200698.pdf: 22807387 bytes, checksum: c75bb0859daf1963c34e9aa3484308e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Characterizations of the North American Indian in representative American novels of the nineteenth century ..
Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Bibliography: p. 77-80.
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… ways in which women's friendship is depicted by American women writers of the first 75 years of twentieth century to answer the question, What is women's friendship to women in literature? I argue women's friendship is a space between two or more women which is produced by psychic (re)encounter …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
… ways in which women's friendship is depicted by American women writers of the first 75 years of twentieth century to answer the question, What is women's friendship to women in literature? I argue women's friendship is a space between two or more women which is produced by psychic (re)encounter …
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Murder! But How Foul? Determination, Existentialism and Rationalization in Twentieth-Century American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
… protagonists from canonical twentieth-century American novels are "contained" in this way by reference to philosophical or sociological systems powerful at the time of writing, and further whether the systems involved track the roughly mid-century switch of emphasis from determinism to …
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Cultural Identity and the dilemma of "in-betweenness" in selected Arab-American and Jewish-American novels.
… conceived as an exile for citizens. The Jewish-American and Arab-American narratives under study demonstrate this aspect of ‘home as exile’ and reflect the amount of culminating suffering and anxiety that direct the native’s gaze towards the West. The liminal situation between home as ‘exile’ …
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Adolescence in the Twenties as Represented in American Novels, Popular Magazines, and Literature Anthologies of the Decade
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804110.pdf: 13252241 bytes, checksum: ff9f1c399622c7ab36f60f3d11de29c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The Grotesque in Some American Novels of The Nineteen-Sixties: Ken Kesey, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412240.pdf: 13842209 bytes, checksum: def327ee41862382b3e28fb6405a91b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Reading the Vietnam War and Encountering Other Others: Race and Ethnicity in American Novels of the Vietnam War
<p>This dissertation examines four novels that specifically and deliberately focus on the perspectives of people of color in the United States in order to explore a gap in the conversations surrounding representation of the Vietnam War. Opening the canon to include more diverse perspectives of the …
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'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Romane indianischer Autorinnen und Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts hinsichtlich ihrer Repräsentation von Konflikten zwischen amerikanischen Ureinwohnern und der vorherrschenden christlichen Religion des allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen Umfelds. Verschiedene Schwerpunkte …
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