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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
The Supreme Fiction: Fiction Or Fact?, Gregory Brazeal
The Supreme Fiction: Fiction Or Fact?, Gregory Brazeal
Gregory Brazeal
The article makes a case for giving up the quest to identify Wallace Stevens’ “supreme fiction.” The poet hoped to usher in the creation of an idea that would serve as a fictive replacement for the idea of God, known to be fictive but willfully believed. His hope has remained unfulfilled. By the poet’s own explicit standards, the supreme fiction does not appear in any of his poems, nor in his poetry as a whole, nor in poetry in general. The very idea of a supreme fiction may depend, at least in part, upon a problematic conception of belief drawn …
Wallace Stevens' Philosophical Evasions, Gregory Brazeal
Wallace Stevens' Philosophical Evasions, Gregory Brazeal
Gregory Brazeal
How could thought ever benefit from being formed in poetic language rather than philosophical prose? This essay attempts to clarify a single, relatively narrow respect in which poetry can perform philosophical work that prose, as such, cannot: the evasion of philosophical dogmatism through Stevensian qualification. What Helen Vendler in an early essay calls Stevens’ “qualified assertions,” and what Marjorie Perloff calls Stevens’ “ironic modes," are the basic techniques of Wallace Stevens' anti-dogmatic art.
Trauma And Sexual Inversion, Circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy And Maladies Of Representation, Randall Knoper
Trauma And Sexual Inversion, Circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy And Maladies Of Representation, Randall Knoper
Randall Knoper
No abstract provided.
Review Of Lynching In The West And A Spectacular Secret, Koritha Mitchell
Review Of Lynching In The West And A Spectacular Secret, Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell
No abstract provided.
Reading/Photography: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’S Four Girls At Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews And The Woman’S Era, P. Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
No abstract provided.
Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers
Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
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Bliss Lost, Wisdom Gained: Contemplating Emblems And Enigmas In Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations", Michael Ditmore
Bliss Lost, Wisdom Gained: Contemplating Emblems And Enigmas In Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations", Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Passing And Its Prepositions, Or, Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction In Four Parts, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
P. Gabrielle Foreman
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Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman
Recovered Autobiographies And The Marketplace: Our Nig's Generic Genealogies And Harriet Wilson's Entrepreneurial Enterprise, P. Gabrielle Foreman
P. Gabrielle Foreman
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The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers
The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such …
American Infants: Coping With Trauma And Becoming Historical In A Home At The End Of The World And American Pastoral., Vincent L. Stephens
American Infants: Coping With Trauma And Becoming Historical In A Home At The End Of The World And American Pastoral., Vincent L. Stephens
Vincent L Stephens
A literary analysis of the depiction of postwar child and child-like figures in the novels A Home at the End of the World and American Pastoral.