American Fiction
Two Major Voices of the 19th Century American Fiction: An Evalution
... The American history constituted the basis for his „The Slay’, which in a way announced the beginning of the mature American ...of American fiction was laid and the fictional art flourished ...
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From the feminine to the maternal:elusive maternal subjectivities and the rejection of motherhood in contemporary American fiction
... Modern American Fiction (2007) served as a starting point for reading about the representation of the rejection of institutional motherhood in fiction and the ...historical American social and ...
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Abandoning Hope in American Fiction of the 1980s: Catalogues of Gothic Catastrophe
... of American fiction from the 1980s provide such a starting ...in American history, during which, domestically, an attack on hard-won labor rights was accelerated and environmental regulations ...
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Laughter and madness in post war American fiction
... Underwood, Tim and Chuck Miller eds., The World ofStephen King New York: Plume, 1986 Uphaus, Robert W., 'Nabokov's Kunstlerroman: Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man', Twentieth-Centur[r] ...
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A study of the work of Vladimir Nabokov in the context of contemporary American fiction and film
... ‘The Assistant Producer’ demonstrates Nabokov’s intimate knowledge of the techniques and styles of film-making, but is also significant for its narrative manipulations, and particularly, its exploitation of ...
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Difficult Work: The Politics Of Counter-Professionalism In Post-1945 Transnational American Fiction
... epitomizing American innocence, and canonical literary representations of 9/11 have concentrated on complicating the question of American ...fact, American literary writing about the event has been ...
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“The Base, Cursed Thing”: Panther Attacks, Ecotones, and Antebellum American Fiction
... and American Indians is so overt that by the end of the tale it appears that both the “Indian Devil” and the American Indian raiding party that destroys the heroine’s village work in league with each other ...
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Cross-Gender Significance of the Journey Motif in Selected Afro-American Fiction
... Though Milkman's journey is initially undertaken for monetary gain, he soon understands the quality of his personal, family, and racial his- tory. Pilate's actual and symbolic vision of [r] ...
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Singularities : the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89
... take her from killer Intelligence agent to off-world (pregnant) pioneer, Friday fulfils a format scorned by Bradley as the "perfect [male] female": "tough and mean, but ... good in bed." Bradley sees the ...
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Reviewing the purpose novel : reception, social reform, and the limits of persuasion in turn-of-the-century American fiction
... Similarly, Kaplan connects realism’s formal qualities and narrative strategies to the changing position of the middle class at the end of the century and argues for a reevaluation of realism as a genre, criticizing ...
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Our kind of people : social status and class awareness in post-reconstruction African American fiction
... the American government because black workers resist the employment discrimination that impedes their upward ...the American class and labor ...questions American myths of class mobility so ...
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Plotting Against America: 9/11 and the Spectacle of Terror in Contemporary American Fiction
... In the previously mentioned Amis piece on the attacks the writer describes September 11 as the “apotheosis of the postmodern era—the era of images and perception” (“Fear and Loathing”). This is an astute reading of the ...
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Article “All that Howling Space”: “9/11” and the Aesthetic of Noise in Contemporary American Fiction
... and fiction, he believed, were irrevocably blurred by the attacks: “there persisted the notion that, as on television, this was not quite real; it could be adjusted; the technocracy the towers symbolized would ...
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Going Home: The "Returned Yank" in Irish and Irish-American Fiction
... There is, for example, the Irish Voice series recounting the experiences of an American couple who have gone back to an Ireland the husband has never seen9. I2 As well, Niall Williams an[r] ...
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Women in the Rabbinate and in American Fiction: A Literary and Ethnographic Study
... in American Western culture, the rabbi is held to this priestly standard, and whether its Jewish or not Jewish we need to accept it because it is a part of who we ...
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The Science of Error: Mesmerism and American Fiction, 1784-1890
... noble fiction in question here was originally the creation of a charismatic Austrian physician named Franz Anton Mesmer, who had been promoting his system of healing and natural philosophy in Paris for six ...
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Speculative Fiction in Native American Indian Literature: Active Resistance to Female American Indian Stereotypes
... of American Indian women, the princess and savage, results in inaccurate ...Native American Indian ...Native American Indian perspectives in ...
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Article Radical Homemaking in Contemporary American Environmental Fiction
... For a domestic novel, furthermore, Dellarobia’s ending — outside of both mar- riage and, perhaps, death is key. Marriage and death, after all, are the two traditional endings available for female protagonists in domestic ...
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Beneath sci-fi sound: primer, science fiction sound design, and American independent cinema
... an American indie response to Hollywood sci-fi, but this assertion requires contextualisation—what exactly is an American independent film? Both Geoff King and Yannis Tzioumakis argue that even a ...
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The American Homefront of World War II in Literature for Children: An Evaluative Comparison of Series and Autobiographical Fiction
... Natov (1986) praises the autobiographical fiction books she discusses for their realism and their avoidance of idealization. “These stories reflect the postwar attempt in the best children’s books to toward ...
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