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Showing 1 to 20 of 312 for “"Literature, American."”.
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The Zoo Curriculum escaping colonial cages and going wild with imagination.
The Zoo Curriculum escaping colonial cages and going wild with imagination.
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A Nation in Sight: Visual Technology and Literary Culture in the Early United States
… and emerging theories of sight allowed early Americans to collectively imagine an ideal version of the nation. On the other hand, the scientific and material realities of vision were problematic, giving rise to notions that any attempt at representation was deeply fraught from the outset. Even …
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The element of charity in Maria White Lowell's writings
Abstract not available.
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Saul Bellow: "Dangling Man" and "Herzog"
Abstract not available.
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The redemptive imagination: The fiction of John Irving.
… Solidarity and Irony, John Barth's "The Literature of Replenishment," and Christian theology as frames of reference, this thesis argues that Irving recognizes the contingency of language systems which shape our personal and public networks of "beliefs, desires and experiences" and …
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Telephone Trespassing: Social Regulation and Resistance in American Telephone Fictions
… center and margins, intimacy and independence, American culture developed telephone fictions that strove to declare who may speak, when they may speak, and how they should speak. The telephone's paradoxical potential for absence and presence, access and exclusion, assertion and subjugation both …
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Detour to Otherness: Cultural Identity Discourse in Contemporary *American, Ukrainian, and Polish Literatures
… tradition of addressing diversity in the American literature, the horizontal lines of intercultural exchange or the non-hierarchical ""ethnorelativism of representation"" emerges in American writing only recently, in the works produced as post-traumatic responses to the disturbing …
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Daughters and Their Countries: Nostalgia and Ambivalence in Transnational Feminist Practice
"The four ostensibly different narrative projects share an almost obsessive sifting through past experience; and in confronting the hauntings of self through sexual and national identities, these texts inscribe the complex emotions and subjectivities generated by their ""fixation"" on past homes. …
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Metaparody in Selected Literary Works
"In Lolita, Nabokov's Humbert seems to be a metaparody of the underground man. Both narrators compose confessions which alternate between candor and obfuscation, between pronouncements of their guilt and self-justifying declarations of innocence. The most significant ""revision"" of Notes from the …
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Representing the Subject: An Interdisciplinary Study of Women's Autobiography, Self -Portraiture, and Autoethography in the Twentieth Century
"Because they understand the ego as a facade, these artists do not aim to represent ""the self"" or the ego. Instead, they attempt to represent subjectivity and thereby initiate a more penetrating analysis of the human condition and a more profound inquiry into the foundations of human suffering. …
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Blossom Time: Three Lyricist-Librettists and the Early Twentieth-Century American Musical Theatre
… successes, which included some of the best-loved American operettas and musical comedies of the era, they have yet to achieve the recognition of many of their more famous counterparts. This study examines several of their works in an effort to re-evaluate Caldwell, Donnelly, and Young as writers …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
… Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900-1945"" credits modern fiction as a principle architect of twentieth-century American abortion politics. Drawing together a wide range of abortion plots from canonical, avant-garde and popular early twentieth-century texts, …
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Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
… taught readers the bounds of ""high"" art and literature beginning with the rise of U.S. mass culture in the 1890s. It defined modernism as a genre, a predicted pleasure in reading attached to a specific set of forms or writing techniques. This genre was, paradoxically, a convention of …
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
"This study investigates two related aspects of modernist thought and style: first, the aesthetic turn away from the humanistic subject and, second, a new scientific model of embodied vision that displaced the Cartesian fantasy of a disembodied, objective observer. I propose that modernists …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
… the 1880s and 90s, however, a group of diverse American writers had begun to re-conceptualize embodied identity in ways that displaced this dichotomy. These writers became cognitive in two ways: they deliberately staged narrative experiments in the relationship of knowledge to identity, and …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… 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 late capitalist expenditure, addiction signifies everyday life and normative American …
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
… marking out a pattern of retreat in the works of American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public …
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Unsayable Somethings: Modern American Poetry, Language, and the Logic of Experience
… to the category of the unsayable. For various American poets, non-cognitive modes of knowing---in the form of intuitions and gut instincts---are given a palpable resonance in the articulation of experiences of race, gender, nation, class, and sexuality in the early 20th century. Chapter 3 …
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The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
… imagination that he claims influences the ways Americans remember the Revolution. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)."
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
"""Selling Out: The American Literary Marketplace and the Modernist Novel"" re­examines the ""modernist author"" we think we know by rereading how four American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation …
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