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Information Warfare and Slow Media: Loyalism and the Lesson of Revolutionary Failure

Russ Castronovo

American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 821–849.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257871

Published: 01 December 2017

... by flooding its computer servers in a denial-of-service attack. A more desperate solution, say, disconnecting from media, is merely a less elegant version of Odell’s apocalyptic poetics. Yet by anticipating this modern problem, Loyalist propaganda raises questions about the utility that might be found...

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Some Versions of the Cold War

John Whalen-Bridge

American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 619–633.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-619

Published: 01 September 2002

...- litical realities such as the threat of nuclear annihilation. His gambit is to concede that Cold War conditions really did harm mainstream poetic practice but to demonstrate as well that returning these poems to their social texts improves our experience and understanding of them. Chapters on the role...

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Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492–2002; Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Milette Shamir

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 441–443.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-016

Published: 01 June 2010

...Milette Shamir © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492–2002 . By Thomas O. Beebee. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 248 pp. $65.00. Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction . By David J. Leigh. Notre Dame, Ind...

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Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era; Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture

Robin E. Field

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 432–434.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-012

Published: 01 June 2010

... González, and the Poetics of Culture . By María Eugenia Cotera. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2008. xi, 286 pp. $60.00. Book Reviews Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770– 1860. By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348 pp. 2009...

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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery; The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After; From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century; A Transnational Poetics

Mark Scroggins

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 443–447.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-017

Published: 01 June 2010

...; paper, $30.99. A Transnational Poetics . By Jahan Ramazani. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xvii, 221 pp. $29.00. Book Reviews Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770– 1860. By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348...

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Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860; Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery

Teresa A. Goddu

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 421–422.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-007

Published: 01 June 2010

... College DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-015 Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492–2002. By Thomas O. Beebee. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 248 pp. $65.00. Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction. By David J. Leigh. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2008...

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Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860–1940; Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing

Nancy Glazener

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 423–425.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-008

Published: 01 June 2010

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Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Kwakiutl L. Dreher

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 425–427.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-009

Published: 01 June 2010

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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America

Gerry Canavan

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 427–429.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-010

Published: 01 June 2010

.... $65.00. Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction. By David J. Leigh. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2008. xvi, 256 pp. Paper, $28.00. Eschatological narratives had existed in the Americas long before Christo- pher Columbus arrived equipped with a Christian repertoire...

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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification; Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities

John Morán González

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 430–432.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-011

Published: 01 June 2010

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Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form; Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age

Colbey Emmerson Reid

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 434–436.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-013

Published: 01 June 2010

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William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape; Global Faulkner

H. Collin Messer

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 436–438.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-014

Published: 01 June 2010

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Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel; Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians

Kendall Johnson

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 439–441.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-015

Published: 01 June 2010

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Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path

Lisa Swanstrom

American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 447–449.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-018

Published: 01 June 2010

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Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

Jessica Hurley

American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 761–789.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257847

Published: 01 December 2017

...Jessica Hurley Abstract This essay intervenes in current ecocritical debates about the relationship between fiction and environmental risk by analyzing the limits of risk theory in the deep time of the Anthropocene. Although contemporary ecocriticism argues that we must move from apocalyptic...

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“The Truth about Us”: Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Paterson

Ann Mikkelsen

American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 601–627.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-601

Published: 01 September 2003

..., and Paterson 603 the conception of ﬁlth and ‘‘What goes on with people’’ are the stuﬀ of an intriguingly open-ended poetics that resists conventional moralism. While Geoﬀrey Hartman understands modern poets’ inter...

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Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy; Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

Jonathan Elmer

American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 454–456.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-454

Published: 01 June 2003

... University 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 212 of 246 Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy. By Louis A. Renza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xix, 277 pp. $44.95...

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American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead

Avery Slater

American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811802

Published: 01 December 2014

.... Referring to the issue’s selections from political poets Muriel Rukey- ser, Josephine Miles, John Wheelwright, Edwin Rolfe, and Kenneth Fearing, Gregory asserts that “all the poetry represented here reveals a change in poetic belief since 1929,” particularly with respect to “younger and avowedly...

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Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

J. Peter Moore

American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664782

Published: 01 September 2012

...J. Peter Moore Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry . By Shockley Evie . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xii , 264 pp. Paper , $39.95 . Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s...

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Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers / Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography

Katherine Snyder

American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 666–668.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664791

Published: 01 September 2012

... poetic attacks upon capital hanging. In another instructive chapter, Jones charts the circulation of popular crime literature from Britain to the United States, where the genre’s sympathetic criminal antiheroes and critical depictions of the justice system and State authority helped...

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apocalyptic poetics

Information Warfare and Slow Media: Loyalism and the Lesson of Revolutionary Failure

Some Versions of the Cold War

Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492–2002; Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era; Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture

Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery; The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After; From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century; A Transnational Poetics

Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860; Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery

Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860–1940; Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing

Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification; Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities

Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form; Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age

William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape; Global Faulkner

Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel; Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians

Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path

Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

“The Truth about Us”: Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Paterson

Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy; Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead

Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers / Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography

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