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Patterns of repetition in the novels of Frank Norris
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Patterns of repetition in the novels of Frank Norris
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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"America Beckons, Americans Repel": Nativism, Racial Stereotypes, and the Naturalistic Impulse in Frank Norris's McTeague
This thesis explores the ways in which Frank Norris's naturalism in his novel McTeague is at once compromised and sustained by his use of racial stereotypes. I begin by defining the term "nativism," and go on to clarify Norris's relationship to the nativist movement in America. I also suggest that …
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Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination
… like William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane and Frank Norris, reinforced middle-class and bourgeois conceptions of urban social space. The degrees to which existing social space was maintained, and the processes by which it was maintained, depended on the particular geographical features of the …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… humans cannot affect their worlds), yet unlike Frank Norris or Jack London, for instance, Crane innovatively employs pragmatic elements that work against the very deterministic frameworks that structure his stories. By tracing the dialectic between these theories, I demonstrate how Crane’s …
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"Plot In ""studs Lonigan"": The Failure Of Manhood, The Triumph Of Artistry (farrell, Chicago, Illinois)"
… in the naturalistic tradition of Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and especially Theodore Dreiser. The Studs Lonigan trilogy, Farrell's major work, is often described as a naturalistic work providing a sociological examination of life in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Chicago during the nineteen …
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Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
… American spaces. I argue that for Mark Twain, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, physical motion and the continual remaking of the built environment enabled new kinds of subjectivity. Specifically, I assert texts such as Mark Twain’s early narratives, Norris’s The Octopus, and Dreiser’s An …
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White Devils and So-Called Negroes: Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptists, and the Early Nation of Islam In Detroit
… President of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and J. Frank Norris, a Southern Baptist preacher from Texas. Although scholars have studied the connections between NOI teaching and Garvey and Ali, few scholars who study the Nation go beyond simply mentioning the names of Rutherford and Norris.</p> <p> …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
… in-depth readings of works by Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain and others, I explore how a nexus of class anxieties, including the destabilization of class boundaries, the threat of downward mobility, and the reality of class in a democratic society, were expressed in …
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American Multitudes: Immunity and Contagion at the Turn of the Century
… emotions, and affective contagion, authors like Frank Norris and Sherwood Anderson, though largely ceding to this description, saw in the crowd the possibility for an entirely new social consistency. Contrary to sociological prescriptives designed to brace the individual against the imminent …
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The Additive, Dominance and Epistatic Effects of Six Mutant Genes on Somequantitative Characteristics of Drosophila Melanogaster
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Fluid Sexualities in Frank Norris's McTeague
Frank Norris's novel McTeague can be read as an intense reflection on the limitations of language surrounding fluid sexualities in late-nineteenth century America. Through a queer theoretical lens, I examine the ways in which Norris collapses his characters and narrative in order to demonstrate …
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"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague
<p>Author's abstract: McTeague, Frank Norris's Naturalistc text written in 1899, depicts the corruption of a California couple due to influences outside of their control. In positioning Trina McTeague as a woman unable to identify with either of the two major feminine ideologies of the day, the …