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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mencken."”.
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In defense of Mencken.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1969
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The Literary Criticism of H. L. Mencken
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Mencken's Criticism of Religion, Sex, Literature, and Politics in America
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The composition and revision of H. L. Mencken's Treatise on the gods
During his lifetime, H. L. Mencken was sometimes dismissed as a lightweight journalist. However, in the years since his death in 1956, he and his work have received increasing critical attention. The numerous works on Mencken issued in the 1960's and 1970's have added immeasurably to our knowledge. …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… views of American critics Harold Stearns, H.L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis will be incorporated. Second, I will discuss the life experienced abroad by the Expatriates--the people (including writers from other countries) with whom they associated; the places they frequented (including cafes, …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… camps, such as Ben Franklin, Mark Twain and H.L Mencken - during critical times in our history. Indeed, the blurring of lines between news and entertainment, public policy and popular culture, is not a new phenomenon. Yet, re cent concerns that journalism is being subsumed within the larger field …
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Read it out loud : the construction of Southern identity within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theatre Project.
Utilizing Benedict Anderson's concept of community and nation, this study looks at how the American South was portrayed within the interwar years, specifically by or within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theater Project. The criteria set forth by various critics from the time define the …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
… Suckow, and considers her fiction alongside H.L. Mencken’s The American Language to explore questions of region and nation from a different perspective. In particular, it argues that Suckow’s regionally specific language both reinforced a sense of the Midwest as the most ‘American’ region and …