Neoliberalism In Contemporary Literature: The Nuclear Family’S Decimation In Jonathan Franzen’S The Corrections,
2018
The University of Southern Mississippi
Neoliberalism In Contemporary Literature: The Nuclear Family’S Decimation In Jonathan Franzen’S The Corrections, Jillianne Larson
Honors Theses
Within any text, there is often evidence of the author’s own life along with cultural reflections. A specific example of this occurrence is Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections (2001). Since the novel was written in the early twenty-first century, it is an immediate reflection of post-millennial society, specifically the rise of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism was introduced to America as an economic venture; however, the policy’s impact can be frequently seen in relation to the nuclear family. As the idea gained popularity during the 1980s, neoliberalism began seeping into family units by way of one’s career and one ...
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Hazards Of Time Travel,
2018
LonesomeReader Blog
Review Of Joyce Carol Oates's Hazards Of Time Travel, Eric K. Anderson
Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies
A review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel Hazards of Time Travel considering the genre of Young Adult and speculative fiction as well as how the novel relates to the author's own past.
Representations Of Women In The Literature Of The U.S.-Mexico War,
2018
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Representations Of Women In The Literature Of The U.S.-Mexico War, Janel M. Simons
Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English
This dissertation examines figures of women as represented in the literature of the U.S.-Mexico war in order to think through the ways in which the border conflict was preserved in nineteenth-century U.S. American collective memory. Central to my dissertation is a consideration of the intersections of history, myth, legend, and fiction in the memorialization of this war. This dissertation demonstrates that a close look at fictionalized accounts of women’s experiences of and roles in the U.S.-Mexico war highlights the ways in which historical fictions influence how we remember this moment of our collective past ...
Nights In The City Beautiful,
2018
Florida International University
Nights In The City Beautiful, Veronica Suarez
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Nights in The City Beautiful is a collection of confessional, free verse poems that explores sexual trauma, mental health, the exigencies of marriage, and the complexities of human desire. These interconnected poems are grounded with a braided narrative and tackle taboo themes. In Part 1: Monogamy, the reader journeys into the world of Vincent and Victoria, their profound love, and their anxiety disorders. In Part 2: Polyamory, Victoria gets caught in a love triangle when she meets her publishing coworker, Peter Langley.
The book evokes the movement of Romanticism and first-and-second-generation Romantic poets such as William Blake and Lord Byron ...
Fine Southern Gentlemen: The Three Beaux Of Edna Pontellier,
2018
Western Michigan University
Fine Southern Gentlemen: The Three Beaux Of Edna Pontellier, Keli Masten
The Hilltop Review
Much of the literary criticism on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening has focused upon the main character, Edna Pontellier, and her journey of self-discovery, but the surrounding cast is rich with personalities as diverse and enlightening as Edna’s own. While most of the characters seem clearly defined as to their values, desires, and how they reconcile any dissonance they might face, and Edna Pontellier might seem like the only person suffering the torment of this discord, each character is actually negotiating a careful playing field replete with rules, regulations, and strict penalties if one is to run afoul. This ...
Book Review - Blood, Bone And Marrow: A Biography Of Harry Crews,
2018
Kennesaw State University
Book Review - Blood, Bone And Marrow: A Biography Of Harry Crews, Chris Sharpe
Georgia Library Quarterly
A book review of Blood, Bone and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews by Ted Geltner. This is the first biography of writer Harry Crews. It covers his life as an author of several books and articles and a teacher of creative writing.
Cultural And Narrative Shifts Of Nineteenth Century Children's Literature In Hawthorne's Wonder Book For Girls And Boys,
2018
Western Kentucky University
Cultural And Narrative Shifts Of Nineteenth Century Children's Literature In Hawthorne's Wonder Book For Girls And Boys, Kristen Clark Brandt
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Both folklorists and literary critics have been drawn to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s body of work because of his distinctive style and incorporation of folk motifs. Such motif-spotting presents no challenge in Hawthorne’s juvenile literature like his retellings from Greek mythology in Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; however, contemporary folklore redirects the focus of this scholarship to “how particular literary uses of folklore fit into a larger, more fundamental concept of what folklore is and how and what folklore communicates” (de Caro & Jordan 2015:15). Hawthorne’s work interacts with other forms of cultural expression in the nineteenth century ...
Individualism And Mobility,
2018
Kutztown University
Individualism And Mobility, Markus Magiera
English Department: Traveling American Modernism Posters (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Vol. 36, No. 1,
2018
University of Iowa
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Vol. 36, No. 1
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2018,
2018
University of Iowa
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2018, Ed Folsom
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Tuggle, Lindsay. The Afterlives Of Specimens: Science, Mourning, And Whitman's Civil War [Review],
2018
University of Iowa
Tuggle, Lindsay. The Afterlives Of Specimens: Science, Mourning, And Whitman's Civil War [Review], Adam Bradford
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Cohen, Matt. Whitman's Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution [Review],
2018
Rutgers University
Cohen, Matt. Whitman's Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution [Review], Meredith L. Mcgill
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
A "Reconstructed Sociology": Democratic Vistas And The American Social Science Movement,
2018
Graceland University
A "Reconstructed Sociology": Democratic Vistas And The American Social Science Movement, Timothy D. Robbins
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Untuning Walt Whitman's Prophetic Voice,
2018
University of Haifa
Untuning Walt Whitman's Prophetic Voice, Yosefa Raz
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Vol. 36, No. 1,
2018
University of Iowa
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Vol. 36, No. 1
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
No abstract provided.
Books And The Big Screen: The Book Is Always Better,
2018
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Books And The Big Screen: The Book Is Always Better, Sheri A. Brown, Samantha Ertenberg
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
What happens when an English professor and a librarian share their love of books and reading? A campus book club is born. Many students associate reading with what happens in the classroom or studying towards a specific goal. They don’t see the power of reading for enjoyment, entertainment, and pleasure. Stephen Krushen, in The Power of Reading, defines free voluntary reading (FVR), as “reading because you want to: no book reports, no questions at the end of the chapter. In FVR you don’t have to finish the book if you don’t like it. FVR is the kind ...
Mulberiddlesex,
2018
York University
Mulberiddlesex, Catriona Sandilands
The Goose
Through a careful tracing of the botanical presence of mulberry trees in Middlesex, Sandilands argues for a reading practice that takes plants seriously. Thinking with plants interrupts the tendency to consider literary plants primarily as motifs, metaphors or agents of crude naturalization. Sandilands insists on involving plants in reading Middlesex in order to take the novel in less anthropocentric directions: even as Cal enlists mulberries to signal inevitability, their own stories overflow the novel’s deterministic views of race, species, territory, and gender identity.
Trans-Pacific Imaginaries And Queer Intimacies In The Ruins Of Middlesex,
2018
Wilfrid Laurier University
Trans-Pacific Imaginaries And Queer Intimacies In The Ruins Of Middlesex, Dai Kojima
The Goose
Taking up Roland Barthes’s concept of the “third meaning,” Kojima analyzes the character of Julie Kikuchi, the Japanese American love interest of the grown-up Cal. Taking Julie seriously as a character beyond mere plot contrivance and cultural reference, Kojima invites us to consider the intertwined histories of economic rise and fall, trans-Pacific wars, and other intimacies that Middlesex remains entangled in yet fails to fully acknowledge.
Border Crossings, Watery Spaces, And The (Un)Verified Self In Middlesex,
2018
Wilfrid Laurier University
Border Crossings, Watery Spaces, And The (Un)Verified Self In Middlesex, Jenny Kerber
The Goose
Kerber traces the ways in which water liberates and transforms various characters in Middlesex in order to critique and complicate water’s taken-for-granted liberatory powers. Kerber invites us to consider the majority of those for whom water is as deadly as it is (possibly) emancipating, especially those most vulnerable to climate change and other ecological and violent upheavals.
“This Is The Way I Was”: Urban Ethics, Temporal Logics, And The Politics Of Cure,
2018
York University
“This Is The Way I Was”: Urban Ethics, Temporal Logics, And The Politics Of Cure, David R. Anderson
The Goose
This article employs Eli Clare's concept of the "politics of cure" in order to discuss issues of disability, temporality, and ethical relations to rehabilitation, restoration, and cure in the Sex and the (Motor) City: Ecologies of Middlesex special cluster.