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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Literary realism"”.
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A mirror for the republic : mimesis, racial justice, and American literary realism.
… study examines the degree to which the American Literary realist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century worked to undermine the racial stereotypes that justified the continued marginalization of African Americans. Using Plato and Aristotle's theory of mimesis, I argue that …
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"""I thought of you in her place"": representations of black womanhood in American literary realism, 1868-1900"
… the antagonistic dynamics around these two literary forms and challenges us to reconsider the symbolic function of the black woman from one formerly deemed outside the proper boundaries of womanhood to one that nineteenth-century writers saw as a truer and “realer” antidote to their refined …
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. Furthermore, the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies …
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Religion and realism in late nineteenth-century American literature
… to understanding the analytical power of realism and its representational claims in the late nineteenth-century is to examine the relationship between realism and a common cultural concern that opposes the very tenets of realism, one that necessarily pervaded all aspects of class, gender, …
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The Fair Wind
… largely within the range of contemporary literary realism with minimalist influences.
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Red Things
… author's progress as a writer. The stories are literary realism set in St. Louis, Missouri, particularly in the working class south side of the city. The screenplay is an adaptation of the later Theseus myths taking place years after the slaying of the Minotaur. Thematically, both the screenplay …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
Critics often narrate the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a rejection of literary realism, specifically its English incarnation. Critics such as David Lloyd and Terry Eagleton have argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, …
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Maternal Realism: Public Mothering in the Work of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
… women writers generally excluded from studies of literary realism. Writing in response to the same cultural and economic changes taking place in America as more conventional realists, Phelps, Gilman, and Hopkins retain elements of popular domestic fiction to create a new form: maternal realism. …
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Appréciation thermodynamique des Rougon-Macquart d'Émile Zola
… in the Zola criticism community, with several literary scholars seeking to interpret the work of the founder of the naturalism movement in terms of thermodynamics. This thesis was partially informed by our reading of Serres' book, enlightened by our own expertise as an engineer specializing in …
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Finding Agnes: a novel
… people around them. Finding Agnes is a work of literary realism which explores parenthood, the meaning of family, and the societal pressure women in present-day America feel to achieve - and adapt naturally to - motherhood.
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Hope for Vanity Fair: Love as a Solution in Thackeray's Novels
… Thackeray is praised by critics for the realism of such characters as Becky Sharp, his novels also prompt complaints about their moral bleakness. It is felt that Thackeray's view departs from the "middle ground" of realism to a depiction of an always-selfish and corrupt mankind. To be …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… after WWII. This crisis emerged as an explicit literary subject in several key 1960s novels: John Fowles's The Magus (1965), V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men (1967), and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In these three novels, Fowles, Naipaul and Rhys critique British imperialism by engaging …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… challenges the familiar notion that the literary theory of the sublime did not exist during the middle ages. Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to medieval …
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Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
American literary realism and naturalism emerged in an era in which the forces of capital were remaking not only the American social landscape, but also the physical landscape as such. Social upheaval was accompanied by new experiences of physical speed, telecommunications, and the mechanization of …
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“Revolution” in the Epic Form in Contemporary French Literature
… how this form has been formulated in French literary theory in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably intertextual theory. Contrary to the critical view proposed by Julia Kristeva and, later, Franco Moretti that the epic form is monological, that is, reducible to a single perspective, whether …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
This dissertation looks to the early American literary marketplace and argues that the American maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pilot" in 1824, was not an uncontested genre prior to Cooper’s popularization of maritime nationalism. Instead, this …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… and its effects on the American tradition of literary realism. It does so through an analysis of five war novels written by four American authors who had participated in the conflict as combatants or volunteers. These works include John Dos Passos' One Man's Initiation--1917 and Three …
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Quantitative Geographic Analysis: A Cultural History of Australian Bushfire Narratives
… is how the story has been told... In Australian literary studies, such nationalist narratives have been the subject of growing critique for their narrow and exclusionary constructions of Australian identity, highlighting the need for a critical reassessment of cultural representations of …
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Quantitative Geographic Analysis: A Cultural History of Australian Bushfire Narratives
… is how the story has been told... In Australian literary studies, such nationalist narratives have been the subject of growing critique for their narrow and exclusionary constructions of Australian identity, highlighting the need for a critical reassessment of cultural representations of …
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
This thesis contests the widely-held view that literary modernism is a late manifestation of the romantic-symbolist tradition, arguing that the modern novel's self-reflexive preoccupation with the materiality of language is incompatible with the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist …
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