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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"twentieth-century American literature"”.
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… investigates the sustained engagement between American literature and sound reproduction technologies during the twentieth century. Through an analysis of texts by Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and …
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Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, and American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… normalcy--as a complex, shifting category in the literature of early twentieth-century America, and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in which whiteness is defined legally, culturally, and in the marketplace, and demonstrate how Edith …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… genre as a politically-charged modality in early twentieth-century American literature, specifically the entangled relations between realism, romance, and naturalism through which the shifting formations of race and gender reproduce or challenge transnational capitalism’s reifying processes. My …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… in the development of the automobile across the twentieth century. While early responses to the automobile emphasized its democratizing and liberating potential, the gradual integration of the automobile with communications technologies and networks over the twentieth century helped to organize …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
… a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm and analyze drowning scenes in several pre-twentieth century works to establish the tradition which twentieth-century women writers begin to transcend. In Chapter 2, I …
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The archetypal development of the American woman through literature
… behind certain recurrent character types in twentieth century American literature about women. Because of his emphasis on the "collective unconscious," the theories of psychologist Carl Jung are used as the basis for this study. The basic feminine archetype, herself complex, always retains …
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“THE KINSHIP OF HER PAIN”: INTIMATE HEALING IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S FICTION
“‘the kinship of her pain:’ Intimate Healing in American Women’s Fiction” argues that in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, women who teach each other about religion harness erotic power to upend patriarchal family structures. By attending to the nexus of theology, speculation, …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
Twentieth-century American literature incorporates interracial and biracial themes that bring to light the often unnamed and unrecognized biracial identities of many Americans. Unfortunately, despite the potential value for a deeper understanding of the construction of race, these themes have …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… philosophy on four significant writers of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. First, I establish the pervasiveness of Nietzsche's influence on American society, explore the reasons for his popularity, and provide a …
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Themes of Exodus and Revolution in Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved, and Doctorow's Ragtime
… bondage in Egypt has provided the foundation for American literature. I show that Invisible Man, Beloved, and Ragtime not only employ the motif of the Exodus journey; they also perpetuate the silent revolution begun by the Israelites while held captive in Egypt. This dissertation consists of six …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… examines the influence of World War I on American literature and its effects on the American tradition of literary realism. It does so through an analysis of five war novels written by four American authors who had participated in the conflict as combatants or volunteers. These works …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… a specific function that humor has played in twentieth century American literature and that is reflective of American culture today—that being a constant testing of boundaries of who and what are allowed to be considered funny. Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> (1937) …
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The popular Christian novel in America, 1918-1953
… the popularity of didactic Christian novels in twentieth-century American literature. Specifically, the study is restricted to a consideration of best-selling Christian novels and an examination of the attitudes of American readers over a time of extreme social change in America, 1918-1953. …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
By the early twentieth century, America had become enamored with standards. Desiring industrial, economic, geographic, and social normalcy, Americans advocated programs—such as eugenics, ugly laws, City Beautiful movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… B. Du Bois prophesied that the “problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.” A hundred years later, ecological crises join racial crises as perhaps the emergent problems of the twenty-first century. In Du Boisian spirit, my project explores how the color line and what I …