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Narrative Mastery And Representational Violence In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston
Narrative Mastery And Representational Violence In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston
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Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson
Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson
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This dissertation examines trickster sensibilities and behavior as models for racial strategies in contemporary novels by African American and Chinese American authors. While many trickster studies focus on myth, I assert that realist fiction provides a unique historical and cultural space that shapes trickster behavior. John Edgar Wideman, Gloria Naylor, Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston use the trickster in their novels to articulate diverse racial strategies for people of color who must negotiate among a variety of cultural influences. My critical trickster paradigm investigates the motives and behavior of tricksters. It utilizes close literary readings that are strengthened by …
Text And Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction And Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy
Text And Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction And Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy
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Authorship And Individualism In American Literature, Valerie Ann Debrava
Authorship And Individualism In American Literature, Valerie Ann Debrava
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A look at the genre of American literary history, as well as at the careers of four nineteenth-century writers, this neo-Marxist study treats the lives and works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth and Richard Stoddard through the productive circumstances of their writing, and through our expectations as consumers of their personalities and texts. Typically, Whitman and Dickinson are recognized as creative individualists who defied the literary and social conventions of their time, while the Stoddards---when they are recognized at all---are remembered in less daring terms. Many critics today regard Elizabeth Stoddard's first novel, The Morgesons, as an unsentimental …