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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Keep Claiming Space!, Koritha Mitchell
Keep Claiming Space!, Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell
Substantial foreword to the "Hands Up. Don't Shoot!" special issue of CLAJ.
Immigration, Irony, And Vision In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter Of Maladies, Brian Yothers
Immigration, Irony, And Vision In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter Of Maladies, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Wrestling With Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry, Paul T. Corrigan
Wrestling With Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry, Paul T. Corrigan
Paul T. Corrigan
In the current “secular age,” more and more people find beliefs and behaviors associated with traditional religion intellectually and ethically untenable. At the same time, many “postsecular” writers, both believers and nonbelievers, continue to write with religious or religiously-inflected forms, themes, and purposes. In the United States, postsecular poets “wrestle with angels” by engaging constructively and deconstructively with matters traditionally considered the domain of religion and spirituality. While the recent work of Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, John McClure and others puts the concept of the postsecular at the cutting edge of various fields of study, including religion, sociology, and literature, …
For My Brother, Prescott Smith: Died Suddenly September 24, 2015, Charles Kay Smith
For My Brother, Prescott Smith: Died Suddenly September 24, 2015, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
This is an elegy for my brother written the week following his death.
Melville's Reconstructions: "The Swamp Angel," "Formerly A Slave," And The Moorish Maid In "Lee In The Capitol", Brian Yothers
Melville's Reconstructions: "The Swamp Angel," "Formerly A Slave," And The Moorish Maid In "Lee In The Capitol", Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Kesey's Transcendental Gothic: Traces Of American Romanticism In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Brian Yothers
Kesey's Transcendental Gothic: Traces Of American Romanticism In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Sketches At Home And Abroad: A Critical Edition Of Selections From The Writings Of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Jon Miller, Nathaniel Parker Willis
Sketches At Home And Abroad: A Critical Edition Of Selections From The Writings Of Nathaniel Parker Willis, Jon Miller, Nathaniel Parker Willis
Jon Miller
Critics and general readers highly regarded the poetry and prose of Nathaniel Parker Willis (18061867) during the "American Renaissance" of creative literature in the decades before the Civil War. As an editor and frequent contributor to one of the young nation's most successful and elegant literary magazines, The New-York Mirror, Willis achieved an international reputation for his witty and worldly tales and letters. This new edition collects outstanding examples of Willis's short fiction written at the peak of his abilities. These tales of adventure embellish and improve Willis's own experience as a bachelor adventurer during the 1830s, relating, for example, …
The Akron Offering: A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849-1850, Jon Miller
The Akron Offering: A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849-1850, Jon Miller
Jon Miller
FREE FULL-TEXT PDF DOWNLOAD From 1849 to 1850, Calista Cummings edited and published Akron's first literary magazine, The Akron Offering. At the time, Akron was a booming canal town on the verge of even greater prosperity. By turns religious, comic, romantic, and political, this extraordinary collection of early midwestern creative literature expresses a wide range of sometimes contradictory opinions on both the important questions of its day and the important questions of today: historical events such as the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the 1848 revolutions in Europe are considered alongside more timeless contemplations on truth, justice, and beauty. …
Rev. Of Principle And Propensity, By Kelsey L. Bennett, In Review 19, Brian Yothers
Rev. Of Principle And Propensity, By Kelsey L. Bennett, In Review 19, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Bridging The Distances: Women Writers Exploring The Nightmare Of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg
Bridging The Distances: Women Writers Exploring The Nightmare Of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg
Christina Triezenberg
This essay seeks to challenge the now-common practice of excluding Vietnam-era antiwar verse from contemporary literary anthologies by exploring the works produced by professional and amateur female poets who, in many cases, had witnessed the war firsthand and reflected on their experiences in verse that depicts the often harsh realities of this still-contested conflict. By exploring poetry written by women who served in a variety of capacities during the war, this essay underscores the repeated attempts made by women writers to bridge the distances between the home front and the battlefront and offers a compelling argument about the importance of …
Rev. Of The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel, By Jerome Mcgann, In Review 19, Brian Yothers
Rev. Of The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel, By Jerome Mcgann, In Review 19, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Criticizing Local Color: Innovative Conformity In Kate Chopin’S Short Fiction, Thomas Lewis Morgan
Criticizing Local Color: Innovative Conformity In Kate Chopin’S Short Fiction, Thomas Lewis Morgan
Thomas Morgan
One of the difficulties in using regionalism as a descriptive category to discuss late nineteenth-century literature is the series of shifting relationships it has with other terms describing literary production. Not only is there regionalism’s implied connection to realism, there is naturalism, romance, and even local color to consider, if one desires to distinguish between types of regional literary production. Added to this initial framework are the unspoken assumptions concerning intersecting definitions of generic form: the novel is implicitly connected to realism (and later naturalism), while the short story is traditionally associated with regionalism. Further complicating both sets of terms …
Governor Winthrop's "Little Speech": Another Hearing, Michael Ditmore
Governor Winthrop's "Little Speech": Another Hearing, Michael Ditmore
Michael Ditmore
No abstract provided.
Review: The Death Of A Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories And A Novella, Crystal Renfro
Review: The Death Of A Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories And A Novella, Crystal Renfro
Crystal L Renfro
Review of the short story collection "The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella," by Pat Carr.
Melville's Sexualities, Brian Yothers
Preposterous America: The Language Of Inversion In Thoreau, Melville, And Hawthorne, Rasmus R. Simonsen
Preposterous America: The Language Of Inversion In Thoreau, Melville, And Hawthorne, Rasmus R. Simonsen
Rasmus R Simonsen, PhD
This dissertation stages a series of readings that activate the inherent pull towards a queer aesthetic of “preposterousness” in the American Renaissance. In the introduction, I claim that American Studies and Queer Studies have been mutually implicated ever since F.O. Matthiessen’s seminal work American Renaissance. In this way, I bring to light the nascent strands of homoeroticsm and “deviant” practices that disrupt the teleology of normative masculinity in the nineteenth century. My intervention develops a queer heuristic through an exploration of the classical figure of hysteron proteron—the rhetorical inversion of the order of things. As a master-trope for my investigation, …
The City Is Full Of Bugs, Michael Stanley
The City Is Full Of Bugs, Michael Stanley
Michael A Stanley
This essay explores the use of symbolism and metaphor in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, focusing on a particular scene inside Mary Rambo’s apartment in the middle of the novel. The use of symbolism in the novel is extensive, and many objects and characters serve as metaphors for social classes and groups, and often these representations also function as direct satire for various political groups, folkways, and the expectations or prejudices of the time period in which the novel is set. The objects and events that take place in Mary Rambo’s apartment go beyond symbolism to include a forecast of future …
Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference And The Shape Of Melville's Career, Brian Yothers
Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference And The Shape Of Melville's Career, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
Sacred Uncertainty (published April 2015) explores Herman Melville's engagement with a wide range of religious traditions across his entire career.
Review In Translation And Literature Of Jeffrey Einboden, Nineteenth-Century Us Literature In Middle Eastern Languages, Brian Yothers
Review In Translation And Literature Of Jeffrey Einboden, Nineteenth-Century Us Literature In Middle Eastern Languages, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers
Speaking Of Religion In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
Connecting Literature And History: Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby Museum Project, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
Despite mixed reviews at the time of its 1925 publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has come to be one of the most widely taught American books and has become a popular candidate for the title of the “Great American Novel.” Uniquely intertwining social history, biography, and literature, the text challenges readers to understand the culture and history of the Jazz Age and to see its interrelationship with the lives and motivations of the characters, as well as with the author himself. This project encourages students to engage and work closely with one of the historical elements that influenced …
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations, Adam Kotlarczyk
Hawthorne’S “The Minister’S Black Veil”: Group Activities And Interpretations, Adam Kotlarczyk
Adam Kotlarczyk
Although the better-known The Scarlet Letter (1850) still draws more attention from many high school English teachers, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s darkly enigmatic short story “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836) touches on similar themes and provides readers with diverse avenues for exploration, discussion, and analysis. Containing dramatic, psychological, and moral elements, in addition to its literary ones, it is a complex text that can confound teachers and students alike with its range of interpretations and ambiguity. This lesson allows students in small groups to choose and focus on one interpretive element. It also accommodates different learning styles, offering both creative and analytical …
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Novels As An Early Paradigm Of Racial Toleration, Ronnie W. Faulkner
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Novels As An Early Paradigm Of Racial Toleration, Ronnie W. Faulkner
Ronnie W. Faulkner
The Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) provide an early paradigm of racial toleration by displacing the heterogeneous race conflicts of the U. S. to an interplanetary location. There, the protagonist John Carter, representing Burroughs himself, introduces a level of racial acceptance and integration almost unheard of on the Earth of that era (the early twentieth century).
American Studies Journal: Ralph Ellison Issue, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd, Et Al
American Studies Journal: Ralph Ellison Issue, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd, Et Al
A Yęmisi Jimoh
Special issue of journal
Melus: A Community Of Intellectuals Scholars, And Teachers.Pdf, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
Melus: A Community Of Intellectuals Scholars, And Teachers.Pdf, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd
A Yęmisi Jimoh
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The Stray Greatness Of Vikram Seth: Sexuality And Form In The Golden Gate And Beyond, Brian Yothers
The Stray Greatness Of Vikram Seth: Sexuality And Form In The Golden Gate And Beyond, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
"Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller On The French In Algiers, Christina Zwarg
"Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller On The French In Algiers, Christina Zwarg
Christina L Zwarg Professor
Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller on The French in Algiers In this essay I focus on an obscure New-York Daily Tribune column written by Margaret Fuller and published roughly two weeks before her well-known review of Frederick Douglass. Fuller’s review of Lucy Duff-Gordon’s translation shows not only her range in topic (in this case, a consideration of French colonial practice) but also how she writes through the moment when Walter Benjamin’s famous “aura” was losing ground against modern modes of production. The extended quotations juxtaposed in Fuller’s review have about them a visual or dramatic quality, as if Fuller reaches …
The Monster Of Wall Street, Michael A. Stanley
The Monster Of Wall Street, Michael A. Stanley
Michael A Stanley
The scathing social satire that is Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho uses a unique stream-of consciousness narrative that draws the reader into the text by way of a fascination with the narrator. Patrick Bateman, a wealthy and powerful Wall Street elite who divides his time between giving fashion advice and frequenting New York’s trendiest restaurants and clubs, also happens to be a delusional psychotic and ostensibly a serial killer. Shifting between a narrative that sounds like a schizophrenic’s journal of descent into madness and occasionally addressing the reader directly, Ellis has created a voice for the main character that is …