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In Search Of Lost Cultures: Books 1987, Shaun O'Connell
In Search Of Lost Cultures: Books 1987, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
Shaun O'Connell reviews a number of books whose focus is the "loss and tenuous preservation" of cultural values. He detects signs of a cultural crisis in which "literature and American life are increasingly detached" and disturbing indications of a loss of "national consensus," of trust, and perhaps of polity itself. Two hundred years after the signing of the Constitution, he writes, in this year of celebration, we learned in minute detail of the Iran-Contra deceits and duplicities, of government by secret White House junta having replaced the rule of law. Most dismaying of all, we did not appear to be …
Albert Mckisco's Role In Dick Diver's "Intricate Destiny", Laura Hampton Terry
Albert Mckisco's Role In Dick Diver's "Intricate Destiny", Laura Hampton Terry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Ann Moseley
Ole Edvart Rølvaag, Ann Moseley
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Like the Norwegian folk hero the Ash Lad whom he was so fond of writing about, Ole Edvart Rølvaag's life and works can be seen as a search for the truth about himself and his world—both the Norwegian world whence he came and the American world to which he came. Combining realism with myth, Rølvaag explores the physical, psychological, and moral effects of Midwestern life on the immigrant pioneer as well as the rich mythic background that supports and universalizes the characters, structures, and themes of his fiction. In his analysis of the tension between Norwegian cultural traditions and the …