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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Literary Culture"”.
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
This project examines literary and cultural narratives of addiction in order to show how addict-subjects have been defined according to American beliefs about willpower, productivity, morality, racial and economic disparity, and social health. In the contemporary world of American consumerism and …
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Contemporary British Literary Culture, Higher Education, and the Diversity Scandal
… Despite efforts to increase diversity in the literary book trades, the vast majority of publishing professionals are white, independently wealthy graduates of elite universities. Scholars have said little about how the literary field responds to, manifests, and perpetuates this escalating - …
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Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE
… seeks a new perspective on issues of literacy, literary language, and cultural contact in the literature of premodern Japan by examining the primers used to study Chinese-style literature in the Heian and early medieval periods (c. 900-1250CE). Much of Heian literary production was centered on …
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The Takeover by a Literary Culture: Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Literature
… account of the role literature, the ‘literary’, and the notion of a ‘literary culture’ plays in the work of the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty (1931-2007). While these notions are systematically significant in Rorty’s work, no thoroughgoing study of the literary aspect …
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The locomotive and the tree: industrial Pittsburgh's late nineteenth-century literary culture
… myth that the city of Pittsburgh was devoid of literary culture prior to the construction of the Carnegie museum, library, and concert hall in 1895. Pittsburgh, in fact, had a robust and thriving culture in general and specifically a literary scene that was rooted in newspaper production and was …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… by the concrete and not the metaphorical, or so literary history has often told us. "The Poetics of Liminality" tells a different story. By calling attention to themes and forms of in-between-ness in literature spanning the 1630s to the 1690s, this study sets forth a view of seventeenth-century …
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A Nation in Sight: Visual Technology and Literary Culture in the Early United States
A Nation in Sight asks how authors living in the immediate wake of national founding articulated, critiqued, and expanded the aspects of representative government by engaging with the contemporaneous discourses about visual representation. On the one hand, new visual technologies and emerging …
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The Translation and Reception of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in Renaissance Literary Culture, 1556-1674
… as vital English trends in poetics, epistolary culture, and private and institutional life. I make two primary arguments concerning these translations. First, I argue that the uniquely varied thematic and formal interests of the original — fortune, posterity, displacement and exile; dialogue, …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
… America: The US South and the Caribbean in the Literary Culture of Empire, 1898-1959,” explores works by white American, African American, and Black Caribbean writers produced during a period of heightened US colonial intervention in the Americas, from the Spanish-American War of 1898, to the …
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Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932
<p> In Columbia, South Carolina the literary activities that took place <“> Under the Capital Dome <”> shows a circle of readers deeply connected with their community and using literature to help shape their world views. This triad of a newspaper, reading group, and library attest to …
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Fifteenth century literary culture with particular reference to the patterns of patronage, focussing on the patronage of the Stafford family during the fifteenth century.
… to investigate the nature of the role played by literary patronage in fostering fifteenth century English literature. The topic is approached by means of a detailed examination of the books and patronage of the Stafford family. The fifteenth century witnessed the "triumph of English" and its …
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"I Heard the Same Thing Once Before": Intertextuality in Selected Works of Evelyn Waugh
… this dissertation reveals the significance of literary allusion in some of Evelyn Waughs works. It investigates intertextual significance and intent that has, heretofore, been largely bypassed. This study tracks Waugh's intertextual instances from his earliest novels through his short stories …
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Making the Past: The Concepts of Literary History and Literary Tradition in the Works of Thomas Gray
This study explores Thomas Gray’s concepts of literary history, tradition, and the past. It proffers critical examinations of Gray’s literary and historical thoughts, illustrating the extent of the complexity of the mid‐century cultural and intellectual climate in which Gray and his contemporaries …
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Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry
… people participated in transatlantic antebellum literary culture in a far more central and sophisticated manner than has been assumed. Employing "scenes" of reading--self-representations of what, where, how, and why African Americans and the white working classes read--as primary texts, this …
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Fiction as history: an examination of the ideological content of the 19th century novel of manners, with a case study of the portrayal of the ruling class in Anthony Trollope's novels
… develop this idea, several areas of cultural and literary theory are addressed: literature is seen as functioning within the overall context of written and spoken language: as part of an ideological system continuously concerned with its own production and reproduction. The example of …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… Chapter I, “Poe and America as a Border Culture: Masks and Masques of American Literature,” analyses Poe’s celebration of the hybridity of his antebellum literary culture in narratives of heterotopic carnivals which he imbues with a distinctly Modern temporality. This carnivalesque …
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Perfil do leitor colonial
… the national memory under the angle of literary culture. In an attempt to supply analysis and description elements of the colonial reader by means of the itemized list of books, included as goods in period inventories, since the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, this work is …
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"Feminizing the voice of literary authority: Sarah J. Hale's editorship of the ""Ladies' Magazine"" and ""Godey's Lady's Book"""
… of these popular women's magazines as anti-literary and as anti-feminist, I identify the importance of these magazines in the development of American literature and their relationship with American feminism. I argue that Hale redefined literary culture so as to encourage women's …
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