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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"U.S. literature"”.
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On the Move: Games and Gaming Figures in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature
… and configuration--allows us to understand literature in conversation with a complex and evolving media marketplace, a conversation that facilitates one of literature's core functions as historical repository. To find meaning in literary objects, critical scholarship must reconstruct the …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… of fear and desire that characterize U.S. literature in the nineteenth century, but my research turns to the twentieth century to explore the cultural affinity and exchange that defy U.S. imperial aggression. To investigate this disconnect, I turn to the rhetoric of news writers and the …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
Revolutionary Republics analyzes how U.S. literature depicted the independence of Latin America, focusing on the period from the beginning of the Spanish American revolutions in 1810 to the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846. During this brief timespan, the nation’s literature featured a …
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The role of diet therapy in chronic kidney disease
… about 8% of the Medicare budget in the U.S. Literature review findings Chronic kidney disease is now described based on internationally accepted definitions and diagnosed, when structural or functional abnormalities of the kidneys persist for more than 3 months. End-stage kidney disease is …
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Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination
<p>I argue in this dissertation that “climate impasse” — knowing much and doing little about climate change — has become a defining political, social, and cultural problem of the contemporary period (1980s to the present). Supposing that representations of impasse reveal something about the …
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Korean middle- and high-school math teachers' understanding of formative assessment: an interview study
… will contribute to the formative assessment literature and secondary math education literature, because there is a paucity of research about Korean teachers’ formative assessment practice in both the Korean and U.S. literature.
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Feeling singular: masculinity and desire in the early republic, 1786–1822
What did it mean to feel masculine in the early United States? Although the norms of early national masculinity oriented men toward the genres of life writing—to build written monuments to themselves—that republican convention also set the stage for others to express troubling affects and …
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Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971
… Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971</em> builds on the work of women-of-color feminists since the late 1960s and queer-of-color critique in the works of José Esteban Muñoz, Robert Reid-Pharr, Roderic Ferguson, and Nadia Ellis, in order to chronicle the emergence …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
My dissertation, “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period …