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    Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature.J. Leland Miller Professor of American History Literature and Eloquence Michael Davitt Bell & Michael Davitt Bell - 2001 - University of Chicago Press.
    In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers. Bell's influential essays on nineteenth-century American writers—originally written for such landmark projects as The Columbia Literary History of the United States and The Cambridge History of American Literature—are gathered here with a major new essay on Richard Wright. Throughout, Bell revisits issues of genre with an eye toward the unexpected details of authors' lives, and invites us (...)
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    Eroticism and the loss of imagination in the modern condition.Social Sciences Prashant Mishra Humanities, Gandhinagar Indian Institute of Technology, Holds A. Master’S. Degree in English Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Latin American Literature Eroticism, Poetry Modern Fiction & Phenomenology Mysticism - forthcoming - Journal for Cultural Research:1-16.
    This paper finds its origin in a debate between Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) on what is central to the idea of eroticism. Bataille posits that violence and transgression are fundamental to eroticism, and without prohibition, eroticism would cease to exist. Paz, however, views violence and transgression as merely intersecting with, rather than being intrinsic to, eroticism. Paz places focus on imagination, and transforms eroticism from a transgressive, to a ritualistic act. Eroticism thus functions as an intermediary, turning (...)
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    For the “Global 1960s” in Literature: American, French, and Ukrainian Contexts.Yuliia Kulish - 2023 - Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal 10:214-241.
    This article offers an innovative perspective on the literary landscapes of the 1960s in France, Ukraine, and the USA serving as exemplars of a global literary project that views literary works as heterotopias that, while being distinct, collectively constitute a cohesive whole. Using a comparative approach, complemented with distant reading techniques, the study examines how these literary realms are interconnected, revealing shared aesthetic foundations guided by an overarching law. This law, rooted in Theodor Adorno’s concept of negativity, becomes evident in (...)
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    American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-century Art and Literature.David C. Miller - 1993 - Yale University Press.
    This overview of the "sister arts" of the nineteenth century by younger scholars in art history, literature, and American studies presents a startling array of perspectives on the fundamental role played by images in culture and society. Drawing on the latest thinking about vision and visuality as well as on recent developments in literary theory and cultural studies, the contributors situate paintings, sculpture, monument art, and literary images within a variety of cultural contexts. The volume offers fresh and sometimes (...)
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    Theorizing American Literature: Hegel, the Sign, and History.Bainard Cowan & Joseph G. Kronick - 1991 - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press.
    This collection of essays intends to challenge conventional notions of what constitutes an American national literature. The new reading of Hegel in recent philosophy and critical theory subjects history and language to a thorough critique. Yet the connection of Hegel to American discourse has largely gone unexplored, and literary theorists have scarcely begun to interrogate the priorities of Hegelianism implicit in American literary history. The essays collected in Theorizing American Literature thus organize their arguments around the (...)
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    Constructions of agency in American literature on the War of Independence: war as action, 1775-1860.Martin Holtz - 2019 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to enablement, expressed in the perpetration of heroic, courageous, skillful, and powerful actions of assertion and dominance. In order to illustrate this thesis, it provides a comprehensive analysis of literary representations of the American War of Independence from 1775, the beginning of (...)
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    Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities.Irving Babbitt - 2017
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    Landscape and ideology in American renaissance literature: topographies of skepticism.Robert E. Abrams - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Robert Abrams argues that new concepts of space and landscape emerged in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, marking a linguistic and interpretative limit to American expansion. Abrams supports the radical elements of antebellum writing, where writers from Hawthorne to Rebecca Harding Davis disputed the naturalizing discourses of mid-nineteenth century society. Whereas previous critics find in antebellum writing a desire to convert chaos into an affirmative, liberal agenda, Abrams contends that authors of the 1840s and 50s deconstructed more than they constructed.
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  9. American Theological Library Association: Index to Religious Periodical Literature, an Author and Subject Index to Periodical Literature, 1949–1952, Including an Author Index to Book Reviews.J. Stillson Judah - 1953
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  10. American Literature and the Christian Tradition.RANDALL STEWART - 1955
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    RICHARD S. BROOKS and DAVID K. HIMROD, Science and Religion in the English-Speaking World, 1600–1727: A Bibliographic Guide to the Secondary Literature. American Theological Library Association Bibliography Series, 46. Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Pp. xxxiv+620. ISBN 0-8018-4011-1. $85.00. [REVIEW]David Lindberg - 2005 - British Journal for the History of Science 38 (1):107-107.
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  12. Theorizing American literature : Hegel, the sign, and history.ed. by Bainard Cowan and Joseph G. Kronick (ed.) - 1991 - Louisiana State University Press.
     
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    Democratic humanism and American literature.Harold Kaplan - 1972 - Chicago,: University of Chicago Press.
    Kaplan suggests that these major figures works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture.
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    American Literature and the New Puritan Studies.Bryce Traister (ed.) - 2017 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational to the study of American literature. It invites readers of American literature and culture to reconsider the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the (...)
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  15. ""African-American Literature and" Post-Racial" America. Or, You Know, Not.Jacqueline A. Blackwell - 2011 - Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges 16 (1):67-74.
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    Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy.Christine Dunn Henderson (ed.) - 2001 - Lexington Books.
    Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that America had no truly great literature, and that American writers merely mimicked the British and European traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This new edited collection masterfully refutes Tocqueville's monocultural myopia and reveals the distinctive role American poetry and prose have played in reflecting and passing judgment upon the core values of American democracy. The essays, profiling the work of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Henry (...)
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    Nineteenth-century American literature and the discourse of natural history.Juliana Chow - 2021 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    American cultural technologies of the early nineteenth century shaped Nature and the synonymous "native" in contradictory ways: celebrating the wilderness but then transforming it by cultivation, mourning lost "natives" (both people and species) while also naturalizing the succession of new Euro-American settlers. Settler colonial geopolitics understood its own territorial claims in association with the retreats, migrations, and expansions of select species populations: cattle replacing American bison or Euro-Americans replacing Indians on the western frontier. In this way, Euro- (...) descendants of settlers who then considered themselves "natives" could be the natural stewards to "preserve" or "reform" wild remnants of nature while also identifying against the encroachment of the Old World. Technological arts as varied as moving panoramas and picturesque sketches depicted and enacted civilization overtaking the wild frontier through visual tours. This chapter explores how the sketch fits into technologies of seeing accompanying American settler colonialism and points to moments when it suggests ecological processes of ongoing passage rather than terminal extinction or succession. (shrink)
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    Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy.Ann Davis, Thomas S. Engeman, Lilly J. Goren, Despina Korovessis, Peter Augustine Lawler, Carol McNamara, Mary P. Nichols & Laura Weiner (eds.) - 2001 - Lexington Books.
    Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that America had no truly great literature, and that American writers merely mimicked the British and European traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This new edited collection masterfully refutes Tocqueville's monocultural myopia and reveals the distinctive role American poetry and prose have played in reflecting and passing judgment upon the core values of American democracy. The essays, profiling the work of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Updike, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Henry (...)
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  19. Jazz Literature and the African American Aesthetic.George L. Starks Jr - 1993 - In Kariamu Welsh-Asante (ed.), The African aesthetic: keeper of the traditions. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
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    Newman in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Fitzgerald, Lewis, and O’Connor.James M. Pribek - 2009 - Newman Studies Journal 6 (1):5-19.
    This essay traces Newman’s rich legacy in modern American literature in the writings of three prominent American writers of the last century: F. Scott Fitzgerald, who plays off of Newman’s definition of a gentleman in his The Beautiful and Damned ; Sinclair Lewis, who connects the figure of Carlyle Vesper to Newman in Gideon Planish ; and Flannery O’Connor, who mentioned Newman in four published letters, and whose artistic vision was shaped appreciably by Newman’s Apologia and his Grammar (...)
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    Relating the psychological literature to american psychological association ethical standards.Anthony Thompson & Mirella Fata - 1997 - Ethics and Behavior 7 (1):79 – 88.
    The psychological literature frequently elaborates ethical principles and standards and highlights the complexity of many ethical issues. The American Psychological Association code of ethics (American Psychological Association, 1992) directs psychologists to become familiar with the code and its implications for their work. A computerized search strategy is described for identifying and organizing published articles dealing with ethical issues. Specifically, we report the development of a search strategy for use with the journal literature database contained on PsycLIT(CD-ROM). The search (...)
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    Universes Without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature.Matthew A. Taylor - 2013 - London: Univ of Minnesota Press.
    During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view--scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary--they suggested that such energies would eventually result in the perfection of individual and collective bodies, assuming that assimilation into larger networks of being meant the expansion of humanity's powers and potentialities--a belief that continues to inform much posthumanist theory today. Universes without Us explores a lesser-known countertradition (...)
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    A Community of Inquiry: Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature.Patrick Kiaran Dooley - 2008 - Kent State University Press.
    Examines the connections between American philosophy and literature. This title includes discussion of subjects ranging from Stephen Crane's metaphysics to business ethics in William Dean Howells, pragmatic religion in Willa Cather and Harold Frederic, John Steinbeck's philosophy of work, and Norman Maclean's philosophy of community.
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    American Literature and the Christian Tradition. [REVIEW]C. C. V. - 1956 - Review of Metaphysics 9 (4):711-711.
    In a relaxed and yet persuasive manner, the author relates a number of American writers to sets of Christian beliefs, noting that those whom he regards as orthodox are generally thought today to be greater literary artists than the "heretics"--i.e., those who "ignore Original Sin."--V. C. C.
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  25. Islamfiche Readings From Primary Sources.William A. Graham, Miryam Rozen, Marilyn Robinson Waldman & American Council of Learned Societies - 1983 - Inter Documentation Clearwater Distributor].
     
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    Existentialist engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: a philosophical analysis of contemporary American literature.Allard den Dulk - 2015 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsberry Publishing.
    The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American fiction. 'Post-postmodernism' and 'New Sincerity' are just two of the labels that have been attached to this trend. But what do these labels mean? What characterizes and connects these novels? Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one hand, they portray excessive self-reflection and (...)
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    American Writers on American Literature. John Macy.L. M. Pape - 1932 - International Journal of Ethics 43 (1):93-94.
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    American Writers on American Literature.John Macy - 1932 - International Journal of Ethics 43 (1):93-94.
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    Slavery, philosophy, and American literature, 1830-1860.Maurice S. Lee - 2005 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee demonstrates for the first time exactly how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson were among the antebellum authors who tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Unable to mediate the slavery controversy as the nation moved toward war, their writings form (...)
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    Native American Literature and the Canon.Arnold Krupat - 1983 - Critical Inquiry 10 (1):145-171.
    Although not exactly continuous, the Native American challenge to the canon, as I have tried to show, has been of comparatively long standing. Nonetheless, inasmuch as Native American literary production and Euramerican writing influenced by it have only barely begun to enter the courses in and the anthologies of general American literature, that challenge cannot be said to have been effective as yet. No doubt it will take more time for poets and teachers to recognize what Native (...)
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    Loving God's wildness: the Christian roots of ecological ethics in American literature.Jeffrey Bilbro - 2015 - Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.
    Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God's Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America's ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.
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    Environmental Practice and Early American Literature.Michael Ziser - 2013 - Cambridge University Press.
    This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples and honey bees, Michael Ziser presents a method for literary criticism that explodes the conceptual distinction between the civilized and natural world. Beginning with the English exploration of Virginia in the sixteenth century, Ziser argues that the settlement of the 'New World' - and the (...)
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    A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy by Stephanie Merrim (review).Tadd Ruetenik - 2024 - The Pluralist 19 (3):86-89.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy by Stephanie MerrimTadd RuetenikA Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy Stephanie Merrim. SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture. State U of New York P, 2023.If it seems like there is more turmoil in the world than usual, then existentialism seems more relevant than usual. Wars and rumors of (...)
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    A Study of Myth and Religious Colors in British and American Literature.Wei Wang - 2023 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 15 (2):15-30.
    Literature from the United Kingdom and the United States represents the cultural expression of those peoples' lived experiences. Reading British and American literature may also aid in our understanding of the values, worldview, and ideological underpinnings of western civilization. Therefore, this thesis examines the mythological and religious themes in British and American literature using literary works from both countries. Greek Myth is the source and soil of ancient Greek literature. Ancient Greek and Roman literature is a rich treasure (...)
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    American Geological Literature, 1669 to 1850. Robert M. Hazen, Margaret Hindle Hazen.Michele Aldrich - 1983 - Isis 74 (1):115-116.
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    Early american literature and culture after exceptionalism.Edward Larkin - 2008 - Modern Intellectual History 5 (2):373-387.
  37. Literature and American Life. By Howard Mumford Jones. [REVIEW]Percy H. Boynton - 1936 - International Journal of Ethics 47:393.
     
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  38. Typology and Early American Literature.Sacvan Bercovitch - 1974 - Religious Studies 10 (1):114-117.
     
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    American Literature and the Dream. [REVIEW]L. H. - 1956 - Review of Metaphysics 9 (4):701-701.
    An attempt to reinterpret American literature "as a kind of imaginative and experimental projection" of the "American Dream"--the ideal of perfect freedom and democracy. The author's critical and methodological principles, unfortunately, are never quite made clear.--L. H.
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    Political Theory and American Literature: A Guide through the Archive.Danielle Charette - 2020 - Political Theory:009059172090158.
    This Guide to the archive presents political theory’s engagement with American literature via a focus on the tension between the real and the imaginative as a source for politics.
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    American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (review).Gary M. Ciuba - 1992 - Philosophy and Literature 16 (2):426-428.
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  42. The democratic literature of the future : Richard Rorty, postmodernism and the american poetic tradition.Simon Stow - 2007 - In Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis & Sara Rushing (eds.), Histories of Postmodernism. Routledge.
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    The evolution of virtual identity in American literature: from the telegraph to the internet.Festa Beatrice Melodia - 2022 - Verona: Ombre corte.
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    Theorizing American Literature. [REVIEW]Martin Donougho - 1992 - The Owl of Minerva 23 (2):196-200.
    These comments of Walt Whitman may surprise some, as he is not usually considered a Hegelian of any stripe. But then, this entire collection of essays on Hegel and American literature comes as something of a surprise, given the current state of literary theory. It turns out that Whitman’s attention to Hegel was both fitful and oracular. He had read only the selections printed in Frederic Hedge’s compendium, Prose Writers of Germany, i.e., short excerpts from the Philosophy of History (...)
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  45. National Identity in Latin-American Literature.Juan Liscano & Jorge Luis Borges - 1987 - Diogenes 35 (138):41-60.
    If we admit that Latin-American literature is a part of what is called Western culture, why, I ask myself, has it not been able to influence any of the great literatures of the West, outside of the Spanish? To be more precise, when I speak of influencing, I am not referring to the historico-cultural event that signifies Latin America, which has changed the West, but specifically to literature, that is, writing, the book, the language, the contents, the creative structure (...)
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    American Legal argumentation: The Law and Literature/rhetoric movement. [REVIEW]Eileen A. Scallen - 1995 - Argumentation 9 (5):705-717.
    This essay discusses the most recent manifestations of the debate of the law and literature movement. The essay traces the evolution of the Law and Literature schools and identifies some of their adherents and conclusions, shows how these schools have influenced the conceptual development and teaching of American law, presents connections between the Critical Legal Studies and Law and Economics movements in the U.S., and raises questions about the Law and Literature movement.
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    American and French Culture, 1800-1900. Interchanges in Art, Science, Literature, and Society. Henry Blumenthal.Mary Nye - 1977 - Isis 68 (4):653-654.
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    American Literature and the Universe of Force. Ronald E. Martin.Paul Theerman - 1983 - Isis 74 (2):267-268.
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    Mirjam Horn, Postmodern Plagiarisms: Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriati on in US-American Literature , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2015.Marko Bogunović - 2019 - Filozofija I Društvo 30 (2):309-311.
    MIRJAM HORN, POSTMODERN PLAGIARISMS: CULTURAL AGENDA AND AESTHETIC STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION IN US-AMERICAN LITERATURE, WALTER DE GRUYTER, BERLIN/BOSTON, 2015.Marko Bogunović.
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    Early American Scientific and Technical Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides. Margaret W. Batschelet.Clark Elliott - 1992 - Isis 83 (1):181-181.
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