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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"United States Literature"”.
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Student Veteran Programs in the United States: Literature Review and Survey Findings
There is an increase in military veterans in the United States who are attending colleges and universities, especially as servicemen and women are returning from recent military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military veterans transitioning back into civilian life and postsecondary education face …
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Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903
… gender, and respectability in African American literature from 1831 to 1903 through the figure of the "common woman." As a category of analysis, the common woman is an alternative to the bourgeois African American heroine, and is characterized by a number of qualities: the lack of formal …
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"Keeping up her geography": Women's writing and geocultural space in early twentieth-century United States literature and culture
I argue that the current trend in U.S. studies to move beyond the public-private dichotomy is based on a reductive understanding of that binary as primarily a manifestation of separate spheres ideology. Recently, literary critics and historians have argued that to use the language of separate …
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A Phenomenological Study of Crisis Communication During Covid-19: A Corporate Executive Perspective
… global Fortune 500 organization domiciled in the United States. Literature covering the definitional frameworks for crisis and change-related concepts, leadership philosophies, leadership characteristics, crisis response strategies, and crisis communication practices form a foundational basis to …
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The Image of Southern Americans in Selected High School Anthologies
… 25,000 students in the southern region of the United States. The instrument used to measure allocation of space was a simple mathematical procedure. To measure the directionality of content, frequency counts were used. The results revealed both positive and negative aspects of the textbooks …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… Poe’s place in the canons of American literature has become an enduring subject of controversy. Chapter I, “Poe and America as a Border Culture: Masks and Masques of American Literature,” analyses Poe’s celebration of the hybridity of his antebellum literary culture in narratives of …
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An assessment of secondary school students' attitudes toward the 45-15 year-round school calendar
… number of school districts throughout the United States. Literature has shown that the success of these programs is related to students' attitudes. The main body of knowledge we have concerning students' attitudes is contained in feasibility studies having limitations. Because of the …
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Gender Depiction in Preschool Books: A Comparison Between Early Care and Education Classrooms in the United States and Norway
… available to them. For over 40 years, children's literature in the United States has been studied and found to be biased in their portrayal of males and females. Males were more often found as main characters and depicted as capable leaders and thinkers. Female characters were shown as weaker, …
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The Literary Reception of Paul Hamilton Hayne and His Place in the American and Southern Literary Canons
… literary histories and anthologies of Southern literature tend to down play his role as a man of letters and poet of consequence. This diminution of Hayne's literary reputation has taken place despite the respect for his poetry and criticism that came from leading poets and critics in the United …
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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Early American travel writers on Spain
… by travel writings, emerged and developed in the United States between the Revolutionary War and the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Specifically, it analyzes the shift from a politically-centered to a spiritually- or aesthetically-based perception of Spain whereby American readers …
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Poetry and politics on the American homefront, 1914-1918
Since many American war poems written between 1914 and 1918 not only commented on contemporary events but also represented the aims and ideals of major political groups, they are arguably more central to American culture than the more aesthetically distanced modernist poems which literary critics …
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Culture and crisis: Radical writers and writing in the 1930s
… travel writing, political discourses, and literature, the desire to represent social difference--particularly class difference--produces a consistently contradictory and unstable cultural terrain. More particularly, this desire subverts established modes of cultural representation by …
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
Amidst attempts to repoliticize American literary study, some recent scholars have set aside or pushed to the background questions of aesthetic quality in political poetry. But many poets active during the 1930's and 1940's saw political engagement and poetic accomplishment as mutually reinforcing. …
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Losers in the isthmus: Central America in American literature
… my dissertation studies American literature set in Central America from the era of the Monroe Doctrine to the end of the Nicaraguan contra war. Since the 1860's, American writers like Bret Harte, Richard Harding Davis, Paul Bowles, Joan Didion, Robert Stone, and others, have been …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… one of Chesnutt's books of fiction alongside literature by whites which deals with similar subjects and often expresses popular racist assumptions that Chesnutt's fiction contests. Each chapter also demonstrates how white reviewers of his work often reiterated the racism that he resisted and …