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“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”: Dictée ’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics

Jasmine An
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345365
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jasmine An Abstract This article draws on the formal and aesthetic qualities of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée as a critical model for theorizing the transnational legacies of colonialism and empire embedded in the acts of language learning and as an opening for Asian American literary studies...
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The Morgesons , Aesthetic Predicaments, and the Competitive Logic of the Market Economy

Ayşe Çelikkol
American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 29–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-29
Published: 01 March 2006
... of texts were nonetheless beyond the reach of the work- ing class.47 Triangulating the social, the economic, and the aesthetic, The Morgesons aestheticizes its own conditions of existence. As it reveals, the market economy’s influence on aesthetic experience can go much deeper than the commodification...
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The Morality of Aesthetic Action: Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the Politics of Poetry

Zachariah Pickard
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 393–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-006
Published: 01 June 2007
..., the modernist retreat into aestheticism is a dereliction of duty on a whole new scale: “even Coleridge,” as he puts it, “has more politics than Proust.”1 More than seventy years later, Wilson’s arresting distinction between political engagement and aesthetic retreat is still deeply...
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative

Mendi Lewis Obadike
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-083
Published: 01 March 2007
...Mendi Lewis Obadike Duke University Press 2007 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity . By Alexander G. Weheliye. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 286 pp. $22.95. Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative. By Jurgen E. Grandt. Columbus...
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Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Post-modern Aesthetic

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 884–885.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-884
Published: 01 December 2000
... Aesthetic. By Thomas Travisano. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 1999. xvi, 325 pp. $35.00. In Midcentury Quartet, Thomas Travisano convincingly defines a circle of four poets interacting with each...
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Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity; Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920–1950

Colbey Emmerson Reid
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 856–858.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-057
Published: 01 December 2009
...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity . By Kevin Bell. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Modernism on File: Writers, Artists...
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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism; Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation

Jane F. Thrailkill
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-027
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism . By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics...
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Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic: Reading Surface Meaning in Thoreau

David Faflik
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959544
Published: 01 March 2013
...David Faflik American author Henry David Thoreau's transcendental writings are aesthetically “shallow.” To read Thoreau's signature works is to locate interpretive meaning elsewhere than the resonant “depths” with which we long have associated the transcendental text. These are the implications...
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Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum United States Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

Evie Shockley
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296695
Published: 01 September 2013
...Evie Shockley Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic . By Ongiri Amy Abugo . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2010 . x, 223 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Specters of Democracy...
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Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America

Paul Grimstad
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-057
Published: 01 March 2009
...Paul Grimstad © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century . By Theo Davis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. vi, 203 pp. $85.00. One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic...
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The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace Plagiarama! William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions

Gordon Fraser
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 174–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326478
Published: 01 March 2018
... and the Aesthetic of Attractions . By Sanborn Geoffrey . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2016 . 212 pp. Cloth , $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 William Wells Brown plagiarized. Fully 23 percent of his most widely read novel, Clotel (1853), was taken...
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Show Town: Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920 Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage

Amy E. Hughes
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 156–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056630
Published: 01 March 2020
.... Chinn . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 249 pp. Cloth, $82.00 ; e-book available. Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage . By Jacob Gallagher-Ross . Chicago : Northwestern Univ. Press . 2018 . ix, 233 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $34.95 ; e...
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The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life the Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms

Mark Chiang
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811694
Published: 01 December 2014
... . By Lee Yoon Sun . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 226 pp. Cloth , $78.00 ; e-book available . The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature . By Lee Christopher . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2012 . xi , 191 pp. Cloth , $50.00...
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Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution the Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States

Michelle Neely
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865247
Published: 01 March 2015
... in the United States, 1860–1945. By Victoria Olwell. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2011. 288 pp. Cloth, $59.95; e-book, $59.95. Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States. By Edward Cahill. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania...
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“what Is Your Mother’s Name?”: Maternal Disavowal and the Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in Black Nationalist Literature

Meina Yates-Richard
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 477–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650211
Published: 01 September 2016
... and sounds produce what I name a “reverberating aesthetic of black women’s pain” that simultaneously structures and haunts texts representing black nationalist thought. This essay tracks these acoustic after-effects in order to uncover these black women as a crucial first step toward sounding their distinct...
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A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism; Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism.

Hildegard Hoeller
American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-187
Published: 01 March 2006
... forms of cultural hierarchy, including an autonomous realm of aesthetic ‘high culture,’ in the United States, and of poetry’s move- ment within that field from the sites of didacticism to those of aestheticism’’ (3). She contends that the poems ‘‘always formally embody, and sometimes self-consciously...
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Aesthetics, Politics, Homosexuality: F. O. Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar

Randall Fuller
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 363–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-005
Published: 01 June 2007
...Randall Fuller Duke University Press 2007 Randall Aesthetics, Politics, Homosexuality: Fuller F. O. Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar There seems to be something in an effort to understand...
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Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K

Ellen Weinauer
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 184–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-078
Published: 01 March 2007
...Ellen Weinauer Duke University Press 2007 Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau . By Peter J. Bellis. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. vii, 221 pp. $ 39.95. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class...
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Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition

Melissa Solomon
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 421–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-421
Published: 01 June 2001
... Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition.By John P. Anders. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 1999. xiv, 187 pp. $40.00. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 195 of 232 In his study of Willa Cather’s fiction, John Anders...
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Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46;Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown

Marilyn Mehaffy
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 875–877.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-875
Published: 01 December 2001
..., as a mediator of modernity, part of ‘‘the cultural processes that were already replacing the centered, idealized observer of a stable, objectively known world with a decentered (transient), observing sub- ject of flitting images and fleeting moments’’ (138). The sketch’s increasingly modern ‘‘aesthetic...
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