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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Peter Coviello Duke University Press 2001 Peter Intimate Nationality: Anonymity and Attachment
Coviello in Whitman
‘‘Here is adhesiveness—it is not previously fashioned—
it is apropos; Do you know what it is, as you pass...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 The Night Watch ’s missing panels, reconstructed with AI, are attached slightly adjacent to the original painting. Credit: Rijkmuseum/Reinier Gerritsen. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/for-the-first-time-in-300-years-the-night-watch-is-complete-again
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Anna Muenchrath Abstract This essay explores the possibilities of thinking about the production, circulation, and reception of books through the form of the network. Using archival material of the Council of Books in Wartime, the essay reassembles some of the many attachments that formed the Armed...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to breach fixed literary and familial lineages by treating the high-canonical Anglo text as a porous space, open to endless cultural attachments. Through revisionary acts of intercultural exchange, the Yiddish theater and its followers envision literary inheritance as something that is not bounded...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the taboo or obscene in order to address sexual and gender inequalities. These comics suggest that the obscene can push against purity narratives attached to womanhood, narratives that potentially stigmatize all girls and women. Lost Girls keeps the taboos of children’s sexuality and incest central...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... Engaging and reinvesting the meanings of the South’s plantation geographies, the theater revealed how one hundred years after emancipation, time remained essential to procuring the afterlives of slavery and colonialism and to shoring up the region’s necropolitical attachments. Examining these aesthetic...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 479–507.
Published: 01 September 2011
... was evident both in her first publication, The Decoration of Houses (1897), and in her home the Mount, built in keeping with Decoration 's vision. Yet Wharton's house-love, far from celebrating sentimental attachments, may be seen as the opposite: an expression of unhappiness in her marriage, anticipating her...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 555–582.
Published: 01 September 2009
... compelling counternarratives to constitutional patriotism, models of local attachment that De Forest recognizes as the political sensibility of “geographical morality.” Geographical morality implies allegiance to a prediscursive and so-called natural state whose limits are set by climate and human biology...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the text and their attachment to organizing and reading literary works in the order of their composition. Meredith L. McGill is author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834–1853 (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and editor of two collections of essays: The Traffic in Poems...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 537–539.
Published: 01 September 2021
... by considering how the essay form can be used to eschew acquiescing to dominance in favor of embracing “the possibility imagination offers.” Hooked: Art and Attachment. By Rita Felski. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2020. xiv, 199 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $22.50; e-book available. Felski’s earlier...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 367–389.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to social
criticism, from rebellious aesthetics to organized mass demonstra-
tions, from gay poetry to gay liberation—lose something in the tell-
ing. In particular, the above chronology manages to elide Ginsberg’s
attachments to the Left-collective cultures that thrived in the years
preceding World...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 June 2018
... with others in contemporary queer politics and theory are productively unsettled by superheroes, fantasy figures with whom we develop deep affective attachment because of their bodily vulnerability to outside forces. D’Agostino sees Rogue not merely as a representational figure for queerness or a fantasy...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
Published: 01 June 2019
... most celebrated alumna, Margaret Wise Brown. Addressing children’s emotional and imaginative needs in the context of age-appropriate education, her enduring animal characters model processes of individuation and attachment, a template, I argue, for projecting children’s affective ties into the social...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 423–435.
Published: 01 September 2004
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of consent, while simultaneously attaching those individual judgments
to shared conventions of taste that allowed for collective order (or
what Kant famously calls law without law). For Dillon, the liberal aes-
thete was not, finally, an individual subject but a member of a com-
munity of taste...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 681–688.
Published: 01 September 2012
... schol-
ars, and African diasporic scholars, Carretta’s understanding of Wheatley as
a “challenging and elusive biographical subject” ought to interest historians
and scholars of biography, autobiography, and other nonfictional narratives.
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and care. Linda’s synesthesia demonstrates how our capacity to develop new feelings and attachments can undo and remake the world. Lauren Berlant ( 2011 : 263) adds that “the work of undoing a world while making one requires fantasy . . . to distort the present on behalf of what the present can...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 811–839.
Published: 01 December 2019
... (mutilated and disassembled corpses) and narrative fragmentation mirror each other, attempting to reorder cultural and aesthetic values outside patriarchal society. Attached to each corpse is a note bearing a quotation from the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, placing the novel in dialogue...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 449–459.
Published: 01 June 2018
... with the ways queer or non-normative figures generate alternative desires, bring into view unexpected objects of passionate attachment, and facilitate the production of novel forms of kinship and affiliation.” Although none of the books I discuss here draws much or at all on queer theory, all take up comics...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., digestion, the immune system—
are of far more consequence to our day-to-day survival than many of
the ostensibly conscious decisions we make in a given day. The body
itself has an agency that extends beyond the wishes of the thinking
subject that body happens to be attached to. For all...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and unwriting the characters that have gone before. Through this blurring of individual into sequence, Brown presents a version of how sympathy can be attached to the systemic, while also refusing to let any single figure be flattened into a spectacle of pure victimhood. This formal approach to the writing...
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