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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Literary Movements"”.
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Triumphant bowls of socialism: A cultural history of the Soviet toilet
… the particularities of Russian artistic and literary movements throughout the twentieth century and also to examine how they are informed by narratives of the body. The toilet – unique in the universality of its need and its liminality between private and public – becomes a symbolic means to …
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Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism and Gender Difference in Flannery O'Connor and Some Other Southern Contemporaries
… tenets of both Modernism and Post-Modernism as literary movements of the twentieth-century, then looks specifically at how O'Connor's fiction makes her a key hallmark figure in the movement known as Post-Modernism, but also as one of the first female southern writers to utilize very …
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Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War
… significant historical processes through various literary movements and critical periods of national and international transition. This dynamic literature chronicles how Indigenous cultures and Asian American communities navigated the threatened erasure of their identities in war (as captives, …
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CHARLOTTE BROOKE AND LADY GREGORY: IRISH LITERARY NATIONALIST WRITERS
Ireland’s literary response to British colonization produced two distinctly important literary movements: antiquarian nationalism in the eighteenth century and the Irish Literary Revival in the nineteenth. Writers in both movements explored traditional Irish themes and images; however, antiquarian …
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Severed Heads and Martyred Souls: Crime and Capital Punishment in French Romantic Literature
… is important to scholars' understanding both of literary movements and of the political thought of our own time.
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… modernist French and European philosophies and literary movements such as surrealism, psychoanalysis, orientalism, and existentialism, queer American writers were able to imagine and express queer identity and desire in ways previously unspeakable in an American context. By considering …
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Matriarchal myth-making for a postpatriarchal age: The anti-war writing of Virginia Woolf and Hilda Doolittle
… lesbian and gay, women's and psychoanalytic movements of their time challenged traditional assumptions about human nature and cultural values. Familiar with influential intellectual circles, both Woolf and H. D. helped develop the challenges to gender, sexuality, and myth presented by the …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… primary texts that most influenced coterminous literary movements of the period. My work thus attends closely to the narrative and imaginative form of scientific writing that attempts to transcend the limits of what can be seen. All three of Charles Lyell’s, Charles Darwin’s, and Sigmund Freud’s …
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A Reassessment of the Work of Arthur O’Shaughnessy
… suggest that rather than being an imitator of literary giants, O’Shaughnessy was an innovator in several avant-garde literary movements, developing a distinctive poetic voice of his own. I also argue that his life is of greater significance than previously adjudged for its transitions between …
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The modern Spanish theatre : with particular emphasis upon the works of Jacinto Benavente
<p>The great literary movements affected Spanish drama less than that of any other country, though romanticism drew the public and stage closer. Realism and naturalism were slow in developing due to the "manifest incompatibility existing between the very spirit of the French realists and the …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s pond—these concepts have shaped literary beliefs and perceptions of natural landscapes as much as a writer’s individual haunts or …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s pond—these concepts have shaped literary beliefs and perceptions of natural landscapes as much as a writer’s individual haunts or …
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John Keats, The Great Romanticist
… on Romanticism, which stands alone among literary movements in having exercised upon verse and prose an equal and similar, though not identical, transforming power, seems necessary. The heightened imagination and finer sensibility to beauty, from which it sprang, reacted powerfully upon a …
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De geschiedenis van een jonge god : mythe, primordialiteit en de representatie van de archetypische adolescent en jonge man in werken uit de moderne Afrikaanse literatuur en de wereldliteratuur
… unconscious of the human being. Characters in a literary Work. can be interpreted within this primordial framework. Also, a text itself, or the form that a text is presented in, is able to show signs of the archetypal and mythological narrative. This comparative study investigates and tests the …
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Helen Maria Williams: the purpose and practice of translation, 1789-1827
… linguistically, working towards a political and literary universalism influenced by contemporary French culture and by German thought arriving in France from members of the pre-unification states. As a successful salonnière, Williams became acquainted with many of the period’s leading figures, …
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Sudanese literature in English translation: an analytical study of the translation with a historical introduction to the literature
… Western, and principally English, literature and literary criteria as well as by a modern system of education. The study highlights what it claims to be highly distinctive and indeed unique features of Sudanese literature, reflecting the many-sidedness and complexity of its country, itself being a …