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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"argonauts"”.
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The Embodiment of Theory in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
… Nelson, in her groundbreaking memoir <em>The Argonauts</em> <em></em>(2015), works to bring critical theory (primarily queer and feminist theory) out of the academy and into the realm of the personal, rendering theory as tangible and embodied in a real-world setting. Through this unique …
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Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers
… and narrative memoir – Maggie Nelson’s <em>The Argonauts</em> and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s <em>Between the World and Me</em> – this paper considers how personal writing is shaped not by readers it wants to connect to, but by anxious, even dreadful, anticipation of being read by its most resistant and …
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Juxtaposition and the creative reader Malinowski in the field
… experience in the Trobriand Islands, The Argonauts of the Western Pacific and A Diary in the Strictest Sense of the Term, will be attempted in light of James Clifford's contention that they are two halves of the same work, separated only by essentialist binary opposition codes (i.e., …
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The Career of Peter Hardeman Burnett Calfiornia's First Governor
… and then to California in the days of the Argonauts.</p>
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The Marvel of Civilization: A Missiological History of the Evangelical Missionaries to California During the Gold Rush Era (1848 - 1861)
… wealth, and a preoccupation with speed among the Argonauts (or Forty-Niners) challenged their mission. By the end of the Gold Rush Era in the early 1860s, their mission left them with a complex conversation about triumph and failure. Some missionaries returned home discouraged, others adapted …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
… novel refers to the historical narratives of the Argonauts, which awakened Graves to ‘revelations’ of a Goddess who had already been pre-figured in his actual life by the impact of strong women, most notably, Laura Riding. As a direct result of these ‘revelations', Graves came to believe the …