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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Literary canon"”.
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Common Core Canon vs Literary Canon: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What Teachers Can Do About It
The Common Core Canon is both a blessing and a curse to teachers across the nation, who are adapting to the new curriculum that the Common Core has brought to the forefront. These teachers are dealing with multiple moving pieces that are not easy to cope with, including novels that do not fit the …
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Escritoras ausentes en el legado cultural hispánico desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo XIX: una propuesta de mejora del canon literario aplicado en Bachillerato
… throughout history and their presence in the literary canon. To accomplish this, the present literary contents are analyzed in some manuals of Spanish Language and Literature of the first cycle of Bachillerato and in some History of Hispanic Literature guides to check the female presence in …
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Ο ΚΩΣΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΜΑΣ ΩΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ
… HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LITERATURE AND THE MAKING OF A LITERARY CANON IN GREECE DURING THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH UNTIL 1940. THE CENTRAL ISSUE WAS TO EXTRACT A LITERARY CANON FROM THE CRITICAL ESSAYS OF PALAMAS AND TO ANALYZE ITS THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS. THIS TASK …
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Publishing Anglophone Wales: Politics, Culture and the ‘Classic’ Novel
Questions about literary canon-making have haunted the development of twentieth-century literary critical scholarship. The processes of political devolution initiated in the closing years of the last century have only sharpened these questions for critics working in the newly empowered nations of …
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Anarcha-Feminist Writers in La Revista Blanca (1898--1905/1923--1936): Marriage, Family and State
… the limited ideology of the current Spanish literary canon, as well as to enrich the current feminist revision of such a canon with the inclusion of class analysis as well as gender.
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From Bushwick to Portland: Bori Girls of the Diaspora Revolutionizing the Puerto Rican Coming-of-Age Narrative
… Santiago and Nicholasa Mohr have transformed the literary canon via the bildungsroman, highlighting the unique struggles of Boricua girlhood and proving that our stories matter. Two prominent female Boricua writers today, Elisabet Velasquez and Gabby Rivera, have raised the baton that has been …
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The British Short Story of the First World War: Form, Function, and Canonisation
… First World War did not become part of the war’s literary canon. A further subject of investigation is the question of how the formal and thematic features of the short story genre on the one hand, and the war as a topic on the other, affect processes of canonisation. The thesis locates First …
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On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English Tradition
… famous contention that the works of the Russian literary canon represent "deviation[s] from European forms." It is envisioned as a response to (or an elaboration upon) critical works that address the unique rise, formation, and poetics of the Russian novel, many of which are themselves responses …
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Critical Literacy in Literature Instruction: Canonical vs. Young Adult Literature
… classrooms typically teach from the traditional literary canon and text exemplars that contain mainly white, male, heterosexual, Christian, and physically- and mentally-abled authors and narratives. To counter the dominant narrative, educators can and should adapt a pedagogical approach to …
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The Literary Response of German-Language Authors to Selma Lagerlof
… writer, this study contributes to gender-related literary scholarship. It also adds to our knowledge of Scandinavian-German literary relations during the early years of this century. Since the German writers who responded to Lagerlof not only, in most instances, are central to the literary canon …
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"Bound Together . . . By Blood and Soul": Donald Davidson's Strategic Retreat into the Myth of Life in the Old South
… contribution to the Southern and American literary canon. Despite this fact, though, Davidson is now, as he was during his lifetime, ignored because of the Regionalistic concerns that critics see in his writing. In the course of my thesis, I have striven to prove that Davidson is one of the …
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Wozanazo : a bio-bibliographical survey of twentieth-century Black South African women writers
The canon of South African literature, as shaped by publishers, academics and past government education policies, reflects dominant race, class, language and gender biases. Knowledge of large areas of South African literature is still limited by such biases. This research focuses on and seeks to …
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The American dream and literature: how the themes of self-reliance and individualism in American literature are relevant in preserving both the aesthetics and the ideals of the American dream
… is to examine how selected works in the American literary canon contribute to defining, constructing, and sustaining the basic principles of the American dream, in which each individual has the unlimited opportunities to achieve personal freedom and prosperity. Through the examination and analysis …
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Activistas: Central American Women’s Representation, Writing, and Cultural Production in the United States
… that Central American women are dismantling the literary canon as well as decolonizing and reclaiming their subjectivity. Via their written word and cultural production, Central American women in the United States challenge prescribed androcentric norms that place them in subservient positions. …
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
… Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the …
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Integrating Culturally Relevant Text to Reach English Language Learners in the ELA Classroom
… curriculum are focused through a mostly white literary canon and our student population is ever-changing. Students struggle with understanding the perspectives presented in the texts. Our students’ experiences are vastly different than those of the authors we include in our ELA curriculum. With …
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Urban Fervor: Los Angeles Literature and Alternative Religion
… life of Los Angeles opens up the city's literary canon; employing religion as a critical lens illuminates the conjunction of history, literature, and urban growth that characterizes Los Angeles culture. This is especially relevant in a setting where, according to a 1941 guide to the city, …
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Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
… perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus of queer cultural production. Her analysis of the Catalan Maria-Mercè …
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