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“To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand”: Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 451–481.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Srikanth Reddy Duke University Press 2005 Srikanth ‘‘To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand
Reddy Marianne Moore’s Interdisciplinary Digressions
For, what tho’ his Head be empty, provided his Common-
place-Book befull...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 618–622.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Jeanne Heuving The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly . By McCaffery Steve . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xii , 282 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry . By Reddy...
View articletitled, The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly Changing Subjects: <span class="search-highlight">Digressions</span> in Modern American Poetry A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature the Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
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“The Public Heart”: Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 749–775.
Published: 01 December 2004
... where description preponderates over argument suggesting that
her informal and digressive style ‘‘charmed’’ readers, in part, because
it seemed to allow them confidential access to her womanly feelings.10
Another reviewer’s assertion that Child’s New York letters came ‘‘so
straight from her own heart...
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Saving the Subject: Remediation in House of Leaves
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 779–806.
Published: 01 December 2002
...
the book’s physical properties for different kinds of work. Whereas
chapter 9 has more words per page than any other chapter in the
book, chapter 10 has fewer. The action in chapter 9 is subordinated to
philosophical digressions, long lists of names that seem to be selected
almost at random, and stories...
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Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 from Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 616–618.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... By Steve
McCaffery. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2012. xii, 282 pp. Paper, $34.95;
e-book, $34.95.
Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry. By Srikanth Reddy.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2012. x, 192 pp. $40.95.
A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural...
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The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang.”; Class, Language, and American Film Comedy
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 458–460.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in American culture gives this richly digressive book its through-
line. Messenger positions Godfather narrative, which has the demotic power
6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 217 of 246 of sentimental formula and the literary gravitas of epic, in a shifting ground...
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Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 871–886.
Published: 01 December 2004
...-
tions.WereittobeincludedinNorthropFrye’sliterarytaxonomy,it
might find itself consigned to his eclectic ‘‘other forms of fiction’’ (34),
along with the playful, digressive, and metafictional writings of Rabe-
lais, Joyce, and Borges. Although Aldama’s book focuses on English-
language texts, the first chapter’s presentation of García Márquez’s
Cien...
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Information Warfare and Slow Media: Loyalism and the Lesson of Revolutionary Failure
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 821–849.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... Their classical educations suggested that lengthy digressions to Roman and English history, copious sprinklings of Latin, and other varieties of circumlocution might keep upstart American propagandists at bay. Alarmed by the media blitz that Whig activists had unleashed, Myles Cooper in his 1775 pamphlet poem...
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Past Presentisms: Suffering Soldiers, Benjaminian Ruins, and the Discursive Foundations of Early U.S. Historical Novels
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2010
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historical novels and tales is closer to what Homi Bhabha terms a “per-
formative” mode, as opposed to a “pedagogical” one.21 In other words,
the digressive narrative structures of historical novels—which were
roundly criticized and still retain this stigma—actualized a present,
conflicted sense...
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The Opacity of Everyday Life: Segregation and the Iconicity of Uplift in The Street
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 March 2006
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in American ideals of abstract citizenship, they are announced in the
narrative by Petry’s strategic positioning of these ideals against the
harshness of Lutie’s material surroundings. These contradictions be-
come most apparent during Lutie’s narrative digression to her days
as a domestic worker...
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Index to Volume 87 (March 2015–December 2015)
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Narrative by Cristobal Silva; The Science of the Soul in Colonial
New England by Sarah Rivett, 190–92.
Heuving, Jeanne. Review: The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism,
and the Anomaly by Steve McCaffery; Changing Subjects: Digressions in
Modern American Poetry by Srikanth Reddy...
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Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard, and The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., and last of all to a
Philadelphia theater!’ . . . . Call this digression a preface to my story, if
you please, and I will explain” (Lippard 1848, 72, 73). Reminding read-
ers of the various geographies the narrative has visited over the course
of previous chapters, the narrative folds over on itself...
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“No! In Thunder”
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 665–675.
Published: 01 December 2004
... bother about
such shabby treatment? When he did leave for Harvard, there were a
few letters in Duke publications charging that the move proved Gates
had used Duke for his own careerist purposes.
I digress somewhat by repeating that shameful episode in my uni-
versity’s history, but I do so...
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Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., the final part of this article circles back to The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian . Narrative digression from confessional to episodic form here dilates ecstatic temporality around the voice of another life—a life whose exteriority to the present at once foils the ascription of autological subjecthood...
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Naturalism's Nation: Toward An American Tragedy
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 March 2000
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this sensitivity in his work and at other times simply illustrative of it;
this is why his lengthy and rarely consistent philosophical digressions
are so often marginalized by critics except as, at best, an addendum to
naturalist...
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A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., the novel is not fragmented but comprehensive, resembling in its plot trajectory an integrated body rather than a split and broken consciousness. The Guardian Angel contains a tendency to digression, but because it takes the marriage plot as its template, conclusion and completion are also paramount. Thus...
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John Neal, American Romance, and International Romanticism
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 477–504.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of these novels also incorporates digressions on political
and social issues such as sexual mores, slavery, Indian removal, and
dueling, all while directly addressing aesthetic questions.
Yet these works—their narrative incoherence, their bombastic
style, their philosophical digressions...
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Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as well as the digressions from
that attention.
This essay argues that while Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge and
Elleanor’s Second Book reveal a complex dynamic common in jointly
produced antebellum texts, they illustrate a white woman’s efforts
to engage oppositional discourses...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
... incorporates a number of seem-
ingly unrelated references that occasionally read as unnecessary digressions
from the book’s larger argument. This is particularly true in her first two
chapters.
Richardson seems to hit her analytical stride in chapter three, however,
when she discusses...
View articletitled, Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... studies than either Murray or
Ikard; throughout the volume, her analysis incorporates a number of seem-
ingly unrelated references that occasionally read as unnecessary digressions
from the book’s larger argument. This is particularly true in her first two
chapters.
Richardson seems...
View articletitled, 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
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