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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Frontier myth."”.
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New knowledge and hopeful spaces : the significance of the frontier in martian history.
The frontier has been an enduring mythical structure in American history and discourse and is often applied to rhetorics surrounding American space exploration. This project identifies shifts in the frontier myth in discourse surrounding growing attempts to land a human on Mars and uses Dr. Neil …
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"Complicating ""a Very Masculine Aesthetic"": Positional Sons and Double Husbands, Kinship and Careening in Jack Kerouac's Fiction"
… as family maintenance, ethnic assimilation, the frontier myth, masculinity formation, gender studies, and post-WWII counterculture. Encompassing all of these subjects, this study promotes the Duluoz legend as an autobiographical record of one man's search for self in a homosocial world at the …
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Claiming identity: The effect of the American myth on human relationships in David Mamet's "American Buffalo", "Glengarry Glenn Ross", and "Speed-the-Plow"
… business has done to the human spirit. The frontier myth has evolved into exploitative capitalism where competition becomes an obstacle for community and friendship. The characters in these plays try to establish and define their identities by their particular status within the business …
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The Scientific Frontier within Presidential Appeals to Science
… to inspirational scientific rhetoric: the frontier. This research reveals an ongoing narrative of how a particular rhetorical strategy can endure multiple decades and accompany scientific controversies. The use of the scientific frontier appeals to Americans’ desire for: fulfilling their …
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Countering the Frontier: Early Western American Fiction and the Geography of Desire
… American fiction known for popularizing a mythicized, frontier American West also complicate and challenge the nationalistic desire for that very frontier geography. I use the concept of desire, theorized as a force that allows for the coexistence of seemingly contradictory objectives, as a …
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The role of nostalgia in reality television’s representation of rural lives
… critical investigation. I take Alaska: The Last Frontier as my case study and argue that the programme responds to social change and urban living conditions in the United States by creating a nostalgic and idealistic representation of preindustrial American life. While the text is largely …