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Full-Text Articles in American Popular Culture
No Longer, Not Yet: Retrofuture Hauntings On The Jetsons, Stefano Morello
No Longer, Not Yet: Retrofuture Hauntings On The Jetsons, Stefano Morello
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From Back to the Future to The Wonder Years, from Peggy Sue Got Married to The Stray Cats’ records – 1980s youth culture abounds with what Michael D. Dwyer has called “pop nostalgia,” a set of critical affective responses to representations of previous eras used to remake the present or to imagine corrective alternatives to it. Longings for the Fifties, Dwyer observes, were especially key to America’s self-fashioning during the Reagan era (2015).
Moving from these premises, I turn to anachronisms, aesthetic resonances, and intertextual references that point to, as Mark Fisher would have it, both a lost past …
Science Fiction, Lisa Yaszek, Jason W. Ellis
Science Fiction, Lisa Yaszek, Jason W. Ellis
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Literary and cultural critics call science fiction the premiere story form of modernity because it relates the adventures of educated men and women who use science and technology to reshape the material world and build new, hopefully better societies. As such, it is no surprise that many authors working in this popular genre explore how educated men and women might use science and technology to reshape the physical body and build new, hopefully better versions of humanity itself. Yet, lingering even in the most optimistic imaginings of a posthuman future is the doubt that these transformations will be evenly distributed …
Italian-American Literature And Working-Class Culture, Fred L. Gardaphé
Italian-American Literature And Working-Class Culture, Fred L. Gardaphé
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We Weren’T Always White: Race And Ethnicity In Italian/American Literature, Fred L. Gardaphé
We Weren’T Always White: Race And Ethnicity In Italian/American Literature, Fred L. Gardaphé
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The Pitchman In Print: Oral Performance Art In Text And Context, Joseph Ugoretz
The Pitchman In Print: Oral Performance Art In Text And Context, Joseph Ugoretz
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Oral performance art, patterned performative speech for an audience, is perhaps the oldest and most ubiquitous human art form. Specific instances of this art include the performances of griots and guslars, troubadors and shamans, as well as rappers and riddlers, preachers and politicians. While this art form is by definition oral, it is also the case that, frequently, literary art has represented oral performance art. There is written art which depicts oral art, which describes it, appropriates it, criticizes and co‑opts it.
In this dissertation, I define oral performance art as constituting a separate and unique artistic genre, one which …