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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 March 2015
... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 commemoration counterfactual fantasy historical alternate References Bekmambetov Timur . 2012 . Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Tim Burton Productions. DVD. Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment . Bowser...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
Published: 01 September 2018
... , xvii) notes in his long-overdue critical edition, Delany’s counterfactual casting of the fifteen-years-deceased poet as a living freedom fighter in a transnational slave revolution represented a “deliberate anomaly” that readers still “have not examined with sufficient care.” Reconsidered...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
...’ guidance” system with which the A4s of Gravity’s Rainbow are counterfactually equipped (301). 7 “Before launch” (301) ground personnel “charged up a capacitor” (301) in order to set the A4 to shut its engines off at “a particular point out in space” (301)—a preset “Brennschluss point” (302) calculated...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
Published: 01 March 2009
... this legal quandary
by offering a compelling counterfactual claim that emphasized anti-
slavery politics over a long-standing principle of interstate comity. He
rhetorically inferred Med’s unwillingness to return with her mistress:
“If she were able to form an intelligent wish, we are bound...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., in forms like paradox, hypothe-
sis, dialectic, revision, and that concept crucial to philosophy, the
counterfactual. (142)
The pursuit of paradox leads Garber to some pithy and ingenious...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850 Wakanda simulates certain hypotheses about the impact of colonialism by posing a counterfactual example of an African nation that was never colonized. After a fashion, it approximates...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 645–654.
Published: 01 December 2014
... these dots in order to posit a medium for adjudicating between
diverse and disparate options of belief other than the one that was his-
torically instantiated in seventeenth-century Salem—namely, estab-
lishment. Instead of establishment, Child counterfactually gives us
domesticity in the form...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 645–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-Dick
(though admittedly there is no smoking Loaded Gun), and there are
striking similarities, perhaps worthy of commentary, between Pierre
and “I know that He exists. / Somewhere — in silence — Some
counterfactuals are in order, too. How would Melville have reacted if
Moby-Dick had achieved...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 437–466.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the unnarrated features of its real-world counterpart); and pro-
cessing information according to the schedule of a suspense narrative,
our cognitive structures oriented to problem-solving instantly begin
to entertain both optimizing and aversive counterfactuals (If they look
theywilllive...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2014
... juries
in order to be effective and critiques the law’s insistence on morally
unambiguous, frequently counterfactual case narratives. Although
A Modern Instance does not advocate specific substantive changes to
statutory grounds for divorce, we can read it as a call for legal reform
on matters...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... obliteration through the location of its “splinters distorted” almost, but not entirely, “beyond recognition” (Rand 1994 : 17; 1986 : lvii). Such splinters at once rupture and suture the speculative literary historiography I offer below. The counterfactual science fiction archive introduced here thus...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 475–504.
Published: 01 September 2013
... counterfactual example of
ships floundering as a result of natural forces indicates that he can
“plainly see the hand of Providence” in the revolt.
28 For an alternate reading of the political significance of the narrative’s
dependence on white voice in the final section, see Wilson 2006...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2005
....
This emphasis on form, as it pertains to the law in particular, leads to the
concluding argument, which is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 642–644.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 648–651.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 651–653.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is meant to tie the third chapter (on a perceived
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 653–655.
Published: 01 September 2005
...
homology between the counterfactual form in law and passing narratives in
early cinema) to the rest of the book. Best’s primary antagonist here is the
formalism of the law—its insistence on justifying its decisions in terms of
principles like equality and ostensibly value-neutral procedures. What gets...
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