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The Blues And Jazz In Albert Murray's Fiction: A Study In The Tradition Of Stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
The Blues And Jazz In Albert Murray's Fiction: A Study In The Tradition Of Stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
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The use of the blues as a critical theory and as a literary model for the crafting of fiction opens new possibilities for both intellectual and artistic exploration. Reflecting the power of human agency amidst antagonism, the blues is the music of personal triumph over the brutality of circumstances despite any change in condition. The music's emphasis on improvisation reveals human agency because through instrumentation, singing, stylistic nuances, audience participation and/or venue individuals transform perceived or imagined woefulness into hopefulness. Studying the blues and its cultural legacy is significant in identifying the mechanisms by which individuals and ultimately entire communities …
Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman And His Publishers, Charles B. Green
Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman And His Publishers, Charles B. Green
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Few scholars have attempted to conduct a close examination of Whitman's relationship to his publishers in the context of Leaves of Grass. In their "Typographic Yawp: Leaves of Grass , 1855--1992," Megan and Paul Benton present a minimal, but interesting examination of the typographic story of Leaves, but they ignore three of the editions and deal with author-publisher relations only superficially. Other articles examine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, but none really explore what Whitman's complicated relationships with the publishers of his time tell us about the conditions for his work and for authorship in mid-nineteenth-century America. Most studies …
"I Like Things Simple, But It Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
"I Like Things Simple, But It Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
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