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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé
Re-Inventing Sicily In Italian-American Writing And Film, Fred L. Gardaphé
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Pynchon's Age Of Reason: Mason & Dixon And America's Rise Of Rational Discourse, Jason Mcentee
Pynchon's Age Of Reason: Mason & Dixon And America's Rise Of Rational Discourse, Jason Mcentee
English Faculty Publications
By drawing upon astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon for the unlikely protagonists of Mason & Dixon (1997), Thomas Pynchon develops a revisionist history of these two Englishmen as they come to terms with America in the so-called Age of Reason, which was informed by a European philosophical movement with its roots in rational discourse aimed at cultural and political intellect that eventually served as the foundation for American independence and democracy. But as Thomas Paine suggests, time wields a stronger power than does reason, and what history calls the Age of Reason may remind one of an ideal …
Pynchon In Popular Magazines, John K. Young
Pynchon In Popular Magazines, John K. Young
English Faculty Research
Any devoted Pynchon reader knows that “The Secret Integration” originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and that portions of The Crying of Lot 49 were first serialized in Esquire and Cavalier. But few readers stop to ask what it meant for Pynchon, already a reclusive figure, to publish in these popular magazines during the mid-1960s, or how we might understand these texts today after taking into account their original sites of publication. “The Secret Integration” in the Post or the excerpt of Lot 49 in Esquire produce different meanings in these different contexts, meanings that disappear when reading …
Selected Definitions For Work In Communication And Media Studies & Selected Bibliography Of Publications In Comparative Media Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Selected Definitions For Work In Communication And Media Studies & Selected Bibliography Of Publications In Comparative Media Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Ralph Ellison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ralph Ellison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Review Of Black Orpheus: Music In African American Fiction From The Harlem Renaissance To Toni Morrison, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Review Of Black Orpheus: Music In African American Fiction From The Harlem Renaissance To Toni Morrison, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Jazz, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Jazz, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Paradise, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Paradise, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Holy Fools, Secular Saints, And Illiterate Saviors In American Literature And Popular Culture, Dana Heller
Holy Fools, Secular Saints, And Illiterate Saviors In American Literature And Popular Culture, Dana Heller
English Faculty Publications
In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklore, popular culture, and mass media. In American culture, the Divine Idiot is a hybrid form which grows out of the crossings of numerous literary and historical currents, both secular and non-secular. This unwieldy hybridity -- the fact that …
Things Are Seldom What They Seem: Judges And Lawyers In The Tales Of Mark Twain, Lucia A. Silecchia
Things Are Seldom What They Seem: Judges And Lawyers In The Tales Of Mark Twain, Lucia A. Silecchia
Scholarly Articles
This article explores the many and varies legal characters that populated the bench and bar in Mark Twain’s work. Judges and lawyers have long captivated the minds and talents of authors, and Twain was a prolific creator of jurisprudential characters. This article’s thesis is that a careful study of Twain’s fiction reveals a disturbing pattern of inconsistency between the conduct of his attorneys and judges and the quality of justice that their actions bring about. In all too many of Twain’s tales, true “justice” is far more likely to be achieved where lawyers and judges violate legal rules through deception, …
Notes On Eryx, Omega, And Ata, Victor Fet
Notes On Eryx, Omega, And Ata, Victor Fet
Biological Sciences Faculty Research
Observations on several Nabokov’s works (Pale Fire, Lolita) where geographic or zoological names provide sources for puns and hidden parallels.
Toward A Framework Of Audience Studies In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Toward A Framework Of Audience Studies In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Reading Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, James H. Maguire
Reading Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, James H. Maguire
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
“Marilynne Robinson has written a first novel that one reads as slowly as poetry—and for the same reason: The language is so precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn’t want to miss any pleasure it might yield up to patience” (Schreiber 14). Many other reviewers, critics, and general readers agree with reviewer Le Anne Schreiber that Robinson’s novel is beautifully written. And since Housekeeping’s virtual poetry echoes the beauty of the language found in works of nineteenth-century American writers such as Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, it comes as no surprise that Robinson’s favorite authors are the American Romantics.
J. Ross Brown, Peter Wild
J. Ross Brown, Peter Wild
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Caught by his own whimsical pen often used to illustrate his books, the writer sits on a log with sketch pad in hand. He’s in the midst of a vast, wild country. Behind him are mountains and, closer, an apparently abandoned adobe. Beneath a sans-souci floppy hat, he gazes over spectacles comically slid down his nose with that look of the artist in the intense act of considering a scene or of a schoolmarm about to scold. Yet there’s also a different kind of tension to his body. One eyebrow is raised, almost as if he’s listening for something behind …
Reading Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, P. Jane Hafen
Reading Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, P. Jane Hafen
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect their author’s multilayered, complex background but they also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although Erdrich is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, her finely polished writing reveals both her Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Euroamerican heritages. Nevertheless, her diverse imageries, subjects, and textual strategies reaffirm imperatives of American Indian survival. She prescribes the literary challenge for herself and other contemporary Native writers in her essay “Where I Ought to Be: A Writer’s Sense of Place”: “In the light of enormous loss, [contemporary Native writers] must tell …
Michael Mcclure, Rod Phillips
Michael Mcclure, Rod Phillips
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
The author of more than twenty volumes of poetry, over twenty plays, two novels, and three collections of essays, Michael McClure is one of the most prolific and enduring figures to emerge from the Beat movement. As one of the five poets to begin his career at the Six Gallery reading in 1955, the reading which launched the Beat movement, he shares a long and rich history with Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, and many other writers of San Francisco’s Beat period.
Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Holliday
Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Holliday
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
On February 19, 1942, approximately ten weeks after Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of all people of Japanese descent from vulnerable areas of the United States’ west coast. Meant as a security measure to protect the dams, power plants, harbors, railroads, and airports from spies who would attempt to compromise America’s vulnerable infrastructure, this order eventually led to the complete removal of all Japanese from Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington, relocating 120,000 people by mid-1942 (Only What xi-xii). Such actions …