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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Jack London"”.
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Jack London: American political paradox
LD2668 .T4 1966 S83
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The Dust Dwellers: The Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London
… Dwellers: John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London. I argue that these writers participated in a broader modernist response to the ascendancy of the Enlightenment and its manifestation in industrial progress. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the Dust Dwellers' response was distinctly …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
In my dissertation I analyze how Jack London, Robert Hugh Benson, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell adopt anti-utopian perspectives to show the inherent flaws of supposed utopian belief systems. Building off of Gregory Claeys and Lyman Sargent’s definition of the anti-utopian genre, I attest that …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… 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 fiction not only …
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Special relationships: Anglo-American love affairs, courtships and marriages in fiction, 1821-1914
… rapprochement of the 1890s and the use by Jack London and Edgar Rice Burroughs of Anglo-American love stories to promote racial ‘Anglo-Saxonism.’
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… and U.S. media, fiction, and film, ranging from Jack London to Don DeLillo and Martin Scorsese, that offers an historicist interpretation of China. The emergence of this new orientalism---documented at length for the first time here---has multiple consequences for Cultural, American and Area …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… race studies (Mel Y. Chen, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Alexander Weheliye) as its central driving forces. This theoretical backdrop informs my reading of American authors Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick, Toni Morrison, Linda Hogan, and Joy Harjo. Species Panic is divided into five …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London crafted historical narratives that imagined the swift annihilation of entire populations. For them, the blank slate of the American continent was simultaneously a ruined wasteland, and the mythical American Adam was really an American …
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A Survey of Adolescent Reading Habits and Influences : A Study in Selected Parochial Secondary Schools
… authors whose books were chosen included Jack London, Alex Haley, Chaim Potok, and Judy Blume.</p> <p>The students' book choices indicated a seriousness on their part as they view life. The instrument listed in one question the prominent authors who write primarily for the adolescent. The …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
<p>Much attention, scholarly and popular, has been given to the Japanese deployment of Koreans in their war efforts during the Pacific War from the 1930s to 1945. Much less attention, however, has been given to the subject of the pre-Colonial period prior to 1910. The main objectives of this …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …