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This cluster of papers focuses on the literary works, cultural impact, and interdisciplinary analysis of Ernest Hemingway, exploring themes such as masculinity, identity, modernism, gender, race, psychology, ecology, and imperialism.

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Hemingway; literature; masculinity; identity; modernism; gender; race; psychology; ecology; imperialism

The liberal imagination : essays on literature and society

1953-01-01

Lionel Trilling

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but … The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promise -and limits-of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naive liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary-and ever more remote.

Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son

1961-01-01

James Baldwin

'These essays...live and grow in the mind' - James Campbell, Independent. Baldwin's early essays have been described as 'an unequaled meditation on what it means to be black in America'. … 'These essays...live and grow in the mind' - James Campbell, Independent. Baldwin's early essays have been described as 'an unequaled meditation on what it means to be black in America'. This rich and stimulating collection contains Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem, polemical pieces on the tragedies inflicted by racial segregation and a poignant account of his first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states. Yet equally compelling are his Notes for a Hypothetical Novel and personal reflections on being American, on other major artists - Ingmar Bergman and Andre Gide, Norman Mailer and Richard Wright - and on the first great conference of African Writers and Artists in Paris.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

1857-01-01

Herman Melville

« Norton Critical Edition » du roman de Melville ; cette edition comprend une « edition critique » du texte du roman, de nombreuses notes, une selection de textes sur … « Norton Critical Edition » du roman de Melville ; cette edition comprend une « edition critique » du texte du roman, de nombreuses notes, une selection de textes sur les sources et le contexte historique ainsi que des articles critiques.

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Writing beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

1987-01-01

Molly Hite , Rachel Blau DuPlessis

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

1934-01-01

John Herbert Nelson , Gertrude Stein

A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris' Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch … A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris' Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying Spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me'. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice Toklas. Experimental books like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets in our century, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell in her own time to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan in ours. If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice Toklas, you might like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks. (Frances Spalding, Sunday Times).

Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

1988-09-01

Selwyn R. Cudjoe , Gloria T. Hull

Three Poems Preface Chapter I: Introduction Color, Sex, and Poetry in the Harlem Renaissance Chapter II: Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Chapter III: Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1956) Chapter IV: Georgia Douglas Johnson … Three Poems Preface Chapter I: Introduction Color, Sex, and Poetry in the Harlem Renaissance Chapter II: Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Chapter III: Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1956) Chapter IV: Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966) Chapter V: Afterword Color, Sex, and Petry: The Renaissance Legacy Notes Index

Black Literature and Literary Theory

1985-01-01

Henry Louis Gates

Black Literature and Literary Theory is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western … Black Literature and Literary Theory is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature.--W. Mitchell, University of Chicago

Ernest Hemingway, a Life Story

1970-01-01

Donald N. Koster , Carlos Baker

The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era.

1986-10-01

Joseph R. McElrath , Christopher P. Wilson

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century

1991-01-01

Margot Norris , Sandra M. Gilbert , Susan Gubar

A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850

1930-11-01

Gregory Paine , Frank Luther Mott

1. THE END OF A CENTURY 2. THE COUNTING HOUSES 3. EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 4. THE GENERAL MONTHLY MAGAZINES 5. THE GENERAL WEEKLY MAGAZINES 6. THE GENERAL QUARTERLIES 7. LOCAL … 1. THE END OF A CENTURY 2. THE COUNTING HOUSES 3. EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 4. THE GENERAL MONTHLY MAGAZINES 5. THE GENERAL WEEKLY MAGAZINES 6. THE GENERAL QUARTERLIES 7. LOCAL AND REGIONAL MAGAZINES 8. LITERARY TYPES AND JUDGMENTS 9. THE GRAPHIC ARTS 10. POLITICS AND ECONOMICS 11. SOCIAL ISSUES 12. FOREIGN INTERESTS AND THE WAR WITH SPAIN 13. NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISING 14. MUSIC AND DRAMA 15. EDUCATION 16. RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY 17. GENERAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 18. ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION, AND TRANSPORTATION 19. AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, LIVESTOCK 20. LAW, BANKING, AND INSURANCE 21. WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES 22. SPORTS AND RECREATION 23. HUMOR AND HOBBIES SUPPLEMENT: SKETCHES OF CERTAIN IMPORTANT MAGAZINES WHICH FLOURISHED 1885-1905 SKETCH INDEX

City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970.

1972-05-01

Allen Guttmann , Tony Tanner

Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America.

1994-03-01

Nina Baym , Richard H. Brodhead

Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Idea of Cultures of Letters 1: Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America 2: Veiled Ladies: Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment 3: Starting … Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Idea of Cultures of Letters 1: Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America 2: Veiled Ladies: Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment 3: Starting Out in the 1860s: Alcott, Authorship, and the Postbellum Literary Field 4: The Reading of Regions For a History of Literary Access The Reading of Regions: A Study in the Social Life of Forms 5: Jewett, Regionalism, and Writing as Women's Work 6: Why Could Not a Colored Man?: Chesnutt and the Transaction of Authorship Notes Index

Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel

1989-04-01

Richard Gray , Philip Fisher

A study of the popular novel of the 19th century and how it confronted the `hard facts' of American society of the time. A study of the popular novel of the 19th century and how it confronted the `hard facts' of American society of the time.

To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature.

1994-03-01

David W. Blight , Eric J. Sundquist

Journal Article To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. By Eric J. Sundquist. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1993. xii, 705 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-893304.) Get access David W. … Journal Article To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. By Eric J. Sundquist. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1993. xii, 705 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-893304.) Get access David W. Blight David W. Blight Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1461–1462, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080649 Published: 01 March 1994

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Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression

1981-01-01

Lilian R. Fürst , Tony Tanner

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The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction.

1979-11-01

Melvin J. Friedman , Judith Fetterley

Preface Introduction: On the Politics of Literature 1. Palpable Designs: Four American Short Stories An American Dream: Rip Van Winkle Growing Up Male in America: I Want to Know Why … Preface Introduction: On the Politics of Literature 1. Palpable Designs: Four American Short Stories An American Dream: Rip Van Winkle Growing Up Male in America: I Want to Know Why Women Beware Science: The Birthmark A Rose for A Rose for Emily 2. A Farewell to Arms: HemingwayOs Resentful Cryptogram 3. The Great Gatsby: FitzgeraldOs droit de seigneur 4. The Bostonians: Henry JamesOs Eternal Triangle 5. An American Dream: Hula, Hula, Said the Witches Notes

The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century.

1956-11-01

Henry Nash Smith , R. W. B. Lewis

Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of conversations-dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the … Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of conversations-dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crevecoeur's man, the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

Early American Literature

1982-12-31

Alfred Owen Aldridge

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

1996-01-01

Dan Shiffman , Ann Douglas

Terrible Honesty is a portrait of the soul of a generation, the story of the men and women who made New York the capital of American literature, music, and language … Terrible Honesty is a portrait of the soul of a generation, the story of the men and women who made New York the capital of American literature, music, and language in the 1920s. Ann Douglas's magnificent account of mongrel Manhattan focuses especially on brilliant and diverse artists - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, Walter Winchell, Ernest Hemingway and Irving Berlin among them - and on those who influenced them most strongly, the powerful figures of Sigmund Freud, William James and Gertrude Stein. Ann Douglas argues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, American artists and thinkers determined to break with what they saw as the false and derivative cultural tradition of Europe and the past. New York became the heart of that daring and accomplished historical transformation when blacks and whites, men and women together created the new American culture.

Problems of Involvement and Detachment

1956-09-01

Norbert Elias

Old Lady: Are you not prejudiced ? Author: Madame, rarely will you meet a more prejudiced man nor one who {ells himself he keeps his mind more open. But cannot … Old Lady: Are you not prejudiced ? Author: Madame, rarely will you meet a more prejudiced man nor one who {ells himself he keeps his mind more open. But cannot that be because one part of our mind, that svhich we act with, becomes prejudiced through experience, and still we keep another part completely open to observe and judge with ? Old Lady: Sir, I do not know. Athor: Madame, neither do I and it may well be that we are talking nonsense. Old Lady: That is an odd term and one I did not encounter in my youth. Athor: Madame, we apply the term now to describe unsoundness in abstract conversation, or, indeed, any overmetaphysical tendency in speech. Old Lady: I must learn to use these terms correctly. E. Hemingway, Death in the afternoon.

The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies

1996-01-01

Diane Harriford , Mary Lyndon Shanley

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.

1989-03-01

Malini Johar Schueller , David S. Reynolds

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.

1993-03-01

Trudier Harris , Toni Morrison

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.

1980-03-01

Annette Kolodny , Sandra M. Gilbert , Susan Gubar

Dickinson's misery: a theory of lyric reading

2006-07-01

Love and Death in the American Novel.

1961-01-01

Louis Fraiberg , Leslie A. Fiedler

Love and Death in the American Novel.

1961-01-01

Alexander Cowie , Leslie A. Fiedler

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

2003-12-31

Meredith L. McGill

The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this … The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights.

To wake the nations: race in the making of American literature

1993-06-01

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Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America

1987-09-01

Michael T. Gilmore , Cathy N. Davidson

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The American Novel and Its Tradition

1980-01-01

Richard B. Chase

The 'Improper' Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing

1994-01-01

Ann Ardis , Lyn Pykett , Suzanne Clark

Introductory Note Part One: The 'Improper Feminine' Part Two: The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine Part Three: Breaking Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction … Introductory Note Part One: The 'Improper Feminine' Part Two: The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine Part Three: Breaking Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman Conclusion: Reading Out Women's Writing Notes and References Index

The Oxford companion to African American literature

1998-01-01

William L. Andrews , Frances Smith Foster , Trudier Harris +1 more

The Souls of Black Folks, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man, Notes of a Native Son, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Piano … The Souls of Black Folks, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man, Notes of a Native Son, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Piano Lesson, Beloved - the work of African American writers has been a vital part of our nation's literary heritage for over two hundred and fifty years. Now, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature provides the first comprehensive one-volume reference work devoted to this rich tradition, surveying the length and breadth of black literary history, focusing in particular on the lives and careers of more than 400 writers. Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers - Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman and August Wilson, Jamaica Kincaid and Gloria Naylor, Stanley Crouch and Cornel West, and hundreds more. Moreover, the Companion includes entries on 150 major works of African American literature (including synopses of novels), from Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; on literary characters, ranging from Bigger Thomas, to Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace; on character types, such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster; and on such icons of black culture as Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on the traditional literary genres, such as poetry, fiction, and drama; on genres of special import in African American letters, such as autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; and on a wide spectrum of related topics, including journalism, the black periodical press, major libraries and research centres, religion, literary societies, women's clubs, and various publishing enterprises. There are also entries on customs (such as conjuring, signifying), cultural expression (such as dance, blues, and dress), and on unique aspects of black experience (such as the Middle Passage, passing, and blue vein societies). Finally, the five-part, 15-page essay, Literary History, captures the full sweep of African American writing in the US, from the colonial and early national eras right up to the present day. The Companion also features a comprehensive subject index; extensive cross-referencing; and bibliographies after almost every article. With contributions by more than 300 scholars - including such noted authorities as Gerald Early, Nell Irvin Painter, Arnold Rampersad, Claudia Tate, and Craig Werner - who offer criticism that is historically informed, thoughtfully researched, and fair-minded, this superb volume presents a goldmine of information to the student and the scholar, to the seeker of particular information and the browser intent on opening up her or his intellectual horizons.

Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World

2015-08-27

Joseph Bristow

Part 1 Reading for the Empire: boys, class, and culture Boys' Own Paper. Part 2 Schoolboys: manly boys and young gentlemen out of bounds passing the love of women. Part … Part 1 Reading for the Empire: boys, class, and culture Boys' Own Paper. Part 2 Schoolboys: manly boys and young gentlemen out of bounds passing the love of women. Part 3 stories: after Crusoe - the Robinsonade going native - The Coral Island the art of fiction - Treasure Island. Part 4 A man's world: scrambling for Africa - Haggard and Henty Conrad's man. Part 5 Empire boys: defending the Empire - scouting for boys Kipling's boyhood Empire - Kim lord of the jungle - Tarzan of the Apes.

Form and History in American Literary Naturalism

1987-01-01

Stephen C. Brennan , June Howard

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a … Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense -- and making narrative -- out of the comforts and discomforts of its historical moment.Howard believes that naturalism accomodates the sense of perilousness, uncertainty, and disorder that many Americans felt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She argues for a redefinition of the form which allows it to be seen as an immanent ideology responding to a specific historical situation. Working both from accepted definitions of naturalism and from close analysis of the literary texts themselves, Howard consructs a new description of the genre in terms of its thematic antinomies, patterns of characterization, and narrative strategies. She defines a range of historical and cultural reference for the ideas and images of American naturalism and suggests that the form has affinities with such contemporary ideologies as political progressivism and criminal anthropology. In the process, she demonstrates that genre criticism and historical analysis can be combined to create a powerful method for writing literary history.Throughout Howard's study, the concept of genre is used not as a prescriptive straitjacket but as a category allowing the perception of significant similarities and differences among literary works and the coordination of textual analysis with the history of literary and social forces. For Howard, naturalism is a dynamic solution to the problem of generating narrative from the particular historical and cultural materials available to the authors.Originally published in 1985.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Columbia history of the American Novel

1992-05-01

Emory Elliott , Cathy Notari Davidson

The Making of Middlebrow Culture.

1993-02-01

Martha Banta , Joan Rubin

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, outline volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions … The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, outline volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it. Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of great books programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune 's book-review section; the popularity of such works as Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; and the emergence of literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton Fadiman. Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary between high culture and popular sensibility.

Dropping Acid without the Trip

2025-06-23

| Synfacts

Do Be Afraid: Folk Horror, Monstrous Sacred and Divine Terror in The Silt Verses Podcast

2025-06-21

Aldona Kobus | Literatura Ludowa

The article analyzes contemporary folk horror podcast series The Silt Verses (2021–ongoing) in order to theorize how horror as a genre conveys the relationship with the sacred in contemporary culture, … The article analyzes contemporary folk horror podcast series The Silt Verses (2021–ongoing) in order to theorize how horror as a genre conveys the relationship with the sacred in contemporary culture, with the characteristics and functions of the sacred described by Roger Caillois in L’homme et le sacré. First, the article focuses on the folk horror aspect of the series, how it alters the sub-genre conventions and how it presents the monstrous sacred which leads to notion of “divine terror” or “sacred dread” and fear as a primordial response to the sacred and, therefore, the role of religious horror as reminiscent of the religious experience within contemporary society. Lastly, the article will argue that the interchangeability of the sacred and capitalism within the fictional world of the podcast poses the question of what has taken the place of the sacred in the contemporary culture and points at the inviolable status of the capitalistic economy, in the name of which we commit contemporary human sacrifices.

Perseverance and Determination in The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

2025-06-21

Moussa SANE | The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention

The Old Man and the Sea is an extraordinary novel that has attracted the attention of a huge number of readers and writers all across the globe for decades because … The Old Man and the Sea is an extraordinary novel that has attracted the attention of a huge number of readers and writers all across the globe for decades because of its profound exploration of resilience, and the great spirit of perseverance. This article aims at exploring the themes of perseverance and determination, which are among the main ones developed in Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece entitled The Old Man and the Sea. Through a close reading approach, this article will analyze the key passages and character interactions to clarify the multi-layered narrative of Santiago, the protagonist, who is described in the book as an old Cuban fisherman. Through his fierce pursuit of the marlin, a giant opponent, the author delves deep into the themes of perseverance, determination, endurance and the human capacity to overcome adversity. In fact, Santiago’s determination to catch the marlin serves as a metaphor to human beings’ ability to cope with various ordeals of life. It highlights the physical and psychological dimensions of Santiago, the main character, putting the focus on his unwavering force and extraordinary positive spirit in the face of adversity and physical isolation.

“I can’t tell you exactly who I am”: A Deleuzian Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

2025-06-19

Mohammad Mahdavi Nejhad , Ghiasuddin Alizadeh , Omid Amani | Litera:dil,edebiyat ve kültür araştırmaları dergisi

Whiteness in African American Writers’ Nonfictional Works

2025-06-19

Veronica T. Watson | Cambridge University Press eBooks

About the Wharton School

2025-06-17

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About Wharton School Press

2025-06-17

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Dream by Barbara O’Connor (review)

2025-06-13

Michelle S. Bourgeois | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

The Magical Slickness of the Myth of Black Oil, Movement Suite

2025-06-13

Jordan Deal | openwork

The Magical Slickness of the Myth of Black Oil, Movement Suite explores the subversive and disruptive slick nature of a concept I am developing called chaos force. The three-piece Movement … The Magical Slickness of the Myth of Black Oil, Movement Suite explores the subversive and disruptive slick nature of a concept I am developing called chaos force. The three-piece Movement Suite consists of a short written poetic manifesto contextualizing the current of chaos force as it exists in black sonic temporality as the first movement, then transitioning into a recorded two movement sound piece that spans 20 min. I have been exploring mythbuilding & worldbuilding, memory, rhythmanalysis, and vocal & movement-based improvisation as a generative tool to harness and disperse a concept which I call chaos force. Chaos force is a current which sits between two polarized magnetic forces and propels matter outside of its orbit, into the void, towards endless potentiality. This current can then be transformed into subversive material which problematizes, interrogates, and disrupts duality and oppositionality. Within this black sonic temporal performance, I use amorphous structure and improvisation to imagine anti-colonial post-modern sonic futures integrated into worldbuilding, social refusal, and political fugitivity. The sound piece is loosely devised for piano, voice, and synth, with the addition of horn and percussion as the third instigating force. This work aims to actively create, swallow, and destroy structure in real-time using both contradiction in rhythm and harmony, counter-force, and spontaneity. Spirit inhabits this sonic world and speaks in tongue–devouring at its own pleasure and desire. Its landscape is both a love poem for the black imagination, a travel through planetary orbits, and sex with the slickness of oil. Notes on Contributor Jordan Deal (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist whose work defies conventional boundaries. Using their body as a conduit, Deal navigates the intersections of performance, sound, and film to explore the forces that shape socio-political structures and mythologies. Deal has presented performance work internationally, such as at Radialsystem (Berlin) as part of CTM Festival, Cafe OTO (London), ZDB (Lisbon), Performing Arts Forum (France), Performance Mix Festival (NYC), Judson Memorial Church (NYC), and Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia), amongst others. They have exhibited sculptural and sonic installations throughout Philadelphia and New York and have recently been selected as a 2023-2024 Artistic Fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. They are currently a 2024 recipient of the MAPFund Grant. Deal recently released their new full LP titled Seas of Triple Consciousness with London-based record label Horn of Plenty Records this past September.

WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR SALLY TO RIDE?:

2025-06-10

| Anthem Press eBooks

Light and Legacy: Katherine Mansfield and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright

2025-06-06

Erika Baldt | Edinburgh University Press eBooks

Adaptation of social class in Indonesian translation of the Great Gatsby by Maria Lubis

2025-06-05

Shazfa Qatrin Aisha , Udayani Permanaludin , Agry Pramita | Leksika Jurnal Bahasa Sastra dan Pengajarannya

This study examines how elements of social class are adapted in Maria Lubis’s Indonesian translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The primary aim is to analyze the portrayal … This study examines how elements of social class are adapted in Maria Lubis’s Indonesian translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The primary aim is to analyze the portrayal and transformation of social class indicators from the source text into the target language, focusing on selected characters and key events. Employing a qualitative approach with a descriptive analytical method, the research identifies narrative components that reflect class distinctions and explores the translator’s strategies in rendering these into Indonesian. The analysis draws on Peter Newmark’s theory of adaptation and Max Weber’s conceptualization of social class, which distinguishes between class, status, and power. Newmark’s adaptation technique, which involves modifying culturally specific elements for target readers, is employed to reveal how social critiques embedded in the original text are made accessible to an Indonesian audience. The findings indicate that the translation succeeds in preserving core aspects of class stratification while conveying the novel’s critique of the moral decay underlying material wealth. Notably, the translation underscores the disconnect between economic status and ethical integrity, exemplified by the contrast between Gatsby and the upper-class elite. Despite the translator’s effective role as a cultural mediator, some nuances inevitably remain lost in translation due to cultural and linguistic differences.

God Bless Bonnie and Clyde

2025-06-01

Sarah Viren | Michigan State University Press eBooks

Only You Can Control Your Future (Dr. Seuss)

2025-06-01

Theodore P. Abraham | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

We Are the Bearers of His Name: Memorialization of Ephraim Williams, Jr.

2025-06-01

Lisa Conathan | The New England Quarterly

Cadillactica, by Way of the Underground: Big K.R.I.T.'s Transformative Southern Waters

2025-06-01

Justin D Burton | Southern cultures

Abstract: This article explores Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T.'s 2012 Live from the Underground in the context of the water imagery that permeates the album. In a skit at the end … Abstract: This article explores Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T.'s 2012 Live from the Underground in the context of the water imagery that permeates the album. In a skit at the end of the second track, K.R.I.T. crashes into the "mainstream" in his mothership Cadillac, introducing himself as both an alien from outer space and a subterranean from the underground. This skit pits the underground—where music and creativity bubble in pure waters—against the mainstream—where underground artists are watered down for mass consumption. In three key moments across Underground , K.R.I.T. braves the liquidy depths of the mainstream, powerfully transforming himself in communion with his ancestors instead of drowning. This article analyzes these three moments of transfiguration by grounding K.R.I.T.'s music in the work of the Mississippi Delta blues while also connecting it to a network of diasporic creative practices that combine to ensure K.R.I.T.'s survival and thriving as he navigates the mainstream.

Philip Hardie, Virgil

2025-05-30

Marta Garelli | Argos

Jack London, L’appel de la forêt ou Croc-blanc : le choix du féral ou de la domestication

2025-05-29

Véronique Le Ru | Diogène

War and Death Imagery in Ernest Hemingway’s Novel ‘‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’’

2025-05-28

Sadia Rehmani , Seriaznita Mat Said

This qualitative study employs van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," focusing on the depiction of violence and death. The impact of … This qualitative study employs van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," focusing on the depiction of violence and death. The impact of the novel on American English literature is significant, influencing narratives of war and human conflict. This study addresses a gap in existing research by analyzing images of violence and death at both micro and macro levels through CDA. The objectives include uncovering the ideological and power structures within the text, as revealed through stylistic methods, symbolism, and linguistic techniques. By reviewing previous studies on Hemingway's portrayal of the Spanish Civil War and its effects on individuals, the research highlights the central role of the protagonists in these depictions. CDA is employed to reveal deeper meanings and expose inherent power structures and ideological frameworks. Notable findings include insights into themes of alienation, mortality, and human psychology during conflict. The study aims to enhance the understanding of Hemingway's narrative, contributing new perspectives on the complexities of war and its impact on the human condition.

The Withered Rose and Decay of the South: Symbolic Systems in A Rose for Emily

2025-05-28

MIN Hong-yan | Journal of literature and art studies

All Y’all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980-2020

2025-05-27

Marianne Kongerslev | American Studies in Scandinavia

Katherine Mansfield's reception in Nazi Germany and in the former German Democratic Republic

2025-05-27

Monika Sobotta

Forms of violence against women in the Novel A Land without Jasmine

2025-05-27

Nada Ezzadeen Al-Osime

This research focuses on the phenomenon of violence and its various forms, particularly violence against women. It also discusses other forms such as domestic violence and harassment, as portrayed in … This research focuses on the phenomenon of violence and its various forms, particularly violence against women. It also discusses other forms such as domestic violence and harassment, as portrayed in Wajdi Al-Ahdal’s novel A Land Without Jasmine. The research uses a socio-analytical approach to examine the impact of violence on societies and to analyze its representation in the selected novel. The research is divided into an introduction, two main sections, and a conclusion. The first section explores the theoretical framework of violence and violence against women through a review of perspectives offered by scholars, researchers, and philosophers. The second section analyzes various forms of violence such as domestic abuse and harassment through the events of the novel. The research presents several findings, including the motivations for male-perpetrated violence and harassment, which may stem from cultural, emotional, or ideological factors. It also highlights that such violence is often carried out by individuals close to the women, including fathers, brothers, and husbands. Furthermore, the research highlights that women, too, may commit acts of violence against other women

CHAPTER 13 Mervyn LeRoy’s Feminist Tale of a Million Dollar Mermaid

2025-05-24

Rebecca Bell-Metereau

Introduction: Readers Once Removed

2025-05-24

Lottery of the American Dream

2025-05-23

S. M. Coleman

‘Which Piece Fits in Precisely Where?’: Disorientation as Queer Strategy in Ann Quin’s <i>Three</i>

2025-05-20

Alice Hill-Woods

“Crisis in Paternity”: Abjected Mothers and Creating the Self in Suddenly Last Summer and the Glass Menagerie

2025-05-15

Nabeel M Yaseen

This article examines the paternal crisis in self-formation and subject development in Tennessee Williams’ characters: Suddenly Last Summer and The Glass Menagerie. Based on Kristeva’s theory, it is apparent that … This article examines the paternal crisis in self-formation and subject development in Tennessee Williams’ characters: Suddenly Last Summer and The Glass Menagerie. Based on Kristeva’s theory, it is apparent that Williams’ characters are deprived of the skill to love and communicate with other people because they lack what Kristeva calls the ability to “Abject” and separate themselves from their mothers to create their own independent self. Abnormal attachment to their mothers causes a defect in their “Screen of Emptiness,” leading to the absence of formation of the “Imaginary Father” concept. This concept is responsible for guiding the child to form appropriate social skills. Tom, Laura, and Sebastien lack the ability to identify with the ‘Imaginary Father’ whose significant role is to occupy the “Psychic Space” which guides the child through social interaction with others.

A Place for Us by James Ransome (review)

2025-05-14

Lost Evangeline by Kate Dicamillo (review)

2025-05-14

April Spisak

The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday by Kelsey B. Toney (review)

2025-05-14

Cassidy Russell

จาก “เมือง”สู่ “ป่า” : มายาคติของความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างมนุษย์กับสัตว์ในนวนิยายเรื่อง The Call of the Wild ของ Jack London

2025-05-14

คมกฤษณ์ วรเดชนัยนา

บทความวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการนำเสนอสัตว์ในนวนิยาย The Call of the Wild ของ Jack London ซึ่งตีพิมพ์ครั้งแรกเมื่อปี ค.ศ. 1903 โดยใช้กรอบแนวคิดด้านสัตวศึกษา มายาคติ และการสื่อความหมายเป็นเครื่องมือในการวิเคราะห์ ประเด็นหลักแบ่งออกเป็นสองส่วน ได้แก่ 1) มายาคติของความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างมนุษย์กับสัตว์ในฐานะสัตว์เลี้ยง พบว่า ตัวละคร “บั๊ค” ซึ่งเป็นสุนัขในเรื่องถูกมอบบทบาทให้มีลักษณะคล้ายมนุษย์ สะท้อนถึงคุณธรรม ความรัก และความซื่อสัตย์ที่สัตว์มีต่อมนุษย์ อันนำไปสู่การตั้งคำถามเกี่ยวกับสิทธิ ความเท่าเทียม และสวัสดิภาพของสัตว์ในสังคมมนุษย์ แม้ว่าจะอยู่ภายใต้บริบททางวัฒนธรรมที่มนุษย์สร้างขึ้นก็ตาม … บทความวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการนำเสนอสัตว์ในนวนิยาย The Call of the Wild ของ Jack London ซึ่งตีพิมพ์ครั้งแรกเมื่อปี ค.ศ. 1903 โดยใช้กรอบแนวคิดด้านสัตวศึกษา มายาคติ และการสื่อความหมายเป็นเครื่องมือในการวิเคราะห์ ประเด็นหลักแบ่งออกเป็นสองส่วน ได้แก่ 1) มายาคติของความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างมนุษย์กับสัตว์ในฐานะสัตว์เลี้ยง พบว่า ตัวละคร “บั๊ค” ซึ่งเป็นสุนัขในเรื่องถูกมอบบทบาทให้มีลักษณะคล้ายมนุษย์ สะท้อนถึงคุณธรรม ความรัก และความซื่อสัตย์ที่สัตว์มีต่อมนุษย์ อันนำไปสู่การตั้งคำถามเกี่ยวกับสิทธิ ความเท่าเทียม และสวัสดิภาพของสัตว์ในสังคมมนุษย์ แม้ว่าจะอยู่ภายใต้บริบททางวัฒนธรรมที่มนุษย์สร้างขึ้นก็ตาม 2) มายาคติของความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างมนุษย์กับสัตว์ในฐานะสัตว์ป่า ชี้ให้เห็นว่า บั๊คมิได้เป็นเพียงสัตว์เลี้ยงที่แปรเปลี่ยนเป็นสัตว์ป่าเท่านั้น แต่ยังแสดงออกถึงความสามารถในการสร้างสัมพันธ์กับผู้อื่น การเรียนรู้เชิงสังคม และการแสดงภาวะผู้นำในหมู่สัตว์ ซึ่งสะท้อนถึงพลังอำนาจตามธรรมชาติที่ฟื้นคืนกลับมาอย่างสมบูรณ์ ข้อค้นพบสำคัญชี้ว่า การเปลี่ยนผ่านของบั๊คจากสัตว์เลี้ยงสู่สัตว์ป่าเป็นการปลดปล่อยตนเองกลับสู่สภาวะดั้งเดิม ที่แม้จะดิบเถื่อน แต่แฝงด้วยความสง่างามและสติปัญญาในการอยู่รอด

A HETEROGENEOUS LEGACY: EXAMINING HEMINGWAY'S STYLE IN HIS LATER YEARS

2025-05-10

Yulduz Rakhmonova

Hemingway's later works present a complex and multifaceted challenge in stylistic analysis. The article examines the influence of existentialist philosophy on his fragmented style. It concludes by suggesting that Hemingway's … Hemingway's later works present a complex and multifaceted challenge in stylistic analysis. The article examines the influence of existentialist philosophy on his fragmented style. It concludes by suggesting that Hemingway's late style, despite its inconsistencies, offers valuable insights into his evolving worldview and his enduring legacy as a literary innovator.