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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"contemporary American literature"”.
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… To exemplify this mode, this study includes literature from the 2000s, Percival Everett’s Erasure and George Saunders’s “Brad Carrigan, American,” as well as television programs from the 2010s, Shalom Auslander’s Happyish and Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s Big Mouth. Collectively, the texts …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
Raw Feelings reads contemporary literary texts, from Derek Walcott to Carmen Maria Machado, that are characterized by what I call “raw feeling.” I theorize this term as narrative moments that turn to more-than-human raw matter—for instance, the pulpy flesh of fruit, fresh roadkill, or even bad …
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Representations of Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Film: Moving from Erasure to Creative Transformation
… of crisis events have been represented in contemporary American literature and film. Intersecting archival, trauma, literary and film studies, this project highlights connections across politics of institutions and politics of identity by considering the creative transformation of trauma in …
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"I can give you something for that": Exploring the medical paradigm in mental health through contemporary American literature
In this paper, I analyze two contemporary fiction novels, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, through the lens of the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Moshfegh satirically critiques …
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Sudden Fortune
… is an atypical heroine-figure, even in the most contemporary American literature, though her experience is representative of a significant community of Pacific Islanders currently living in America.
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Sudden Fortune
… is an atypical heroine-figure, even in the most contemporary American literature, though her experience is representative of a significant community of Pacific Islanders currently living in America.
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The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /
… and usage of lexical stylistic devices in modern American literature is crucial for comprehending the depth and richness of literary works. While previous studies have explored various aspects of figurative language, there remains a gap in analysing specific lexical devices in contemporary …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… resilient influence of the jeremiad, an early American religious and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film participate in an ingrained literary …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… dissertation, the use of apocalypse and elegy in contemporary American literature has been explored in an attempt to draw some conclusions about America's complex twenty-first century consciousness. I have selected the millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo (Underworld), and …
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Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
… of ways of thinking about freedom in postwar American literature. This term is built in part by theories of freedom in American political thinking that value individualism and autonomy, and this dissertation connects core aesthetics of American subjectivity to the role of masculinity in a …
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Languages of Self: American Immigrant Writers and the New Global Literature
… particularly among immigrant writers, whose literature not only reflects, but also attempts to articulate the concerns of globalization. Because globalization directly impacts our view of interconnections between people, in other words, our notions of community and interpersonal connections, …
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Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
… and demand immediate action. But it seems that Americans can’t agree on the definitions of the terms of the debate, let alone on how to tackle any of the substantive issues that face our communities, country, and planet. Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Literature intervenes …
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Taken In
Taken In is a collection of poems about coming to terms with death, love, and the social responsibilities people owe to each other.
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …