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Within, Aside, and Too Much: On Parentheticality across Media
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in and out of disciplinary boundaries and questions about the legacies of critical theory, comedy, sound, sexuality, independent filmmaking, and new media aesthetics. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Adorno Theodor W. 1990 . “ Punctuation Marks .” Translated by Nicholsen...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... into discrete species. This essay identifies the current pandemic as a crisis in knowledge—one in which assumptions such as Linnaean categories and species boundaries need re-examining—and explores historical and disciplinary means of challenging the limited and often deadly knowledge regime...
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The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... The essay also shows how Dunbar’s novel contributes to several fields of contemporary intellectual interest, among them Civil War studies, Afropessimist thought, and a cross-disciplinary investigation of negative epistemologies known as “ignorance studies.” Ultimately, the essay concludes that Civil War...
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Consuming George Thompson
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... in the period. This essay revisits consumption as a metaphor that joins reading and eating, arguing that the attitudes of working men require a more faithful materiality than our qualms about the term's biologism permit. Sensational reading was a response, this essay argues, to coercive disciplinary rhetoric...
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The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
...” (Gordon 1997 , 4–5) and as an interdisciplinary “term of analysis and history rather than personhood” (Chuh 2003a , 9), this article argues that ethical alienation as pedagogical practice can lead us to a differently ordered set of disciplinary priorities. References Blair Rhonda . 1993...
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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
Published: 01 December 2020
... how far artificial intelligence advances. Weizenbaum’s argument, made in 1976, is wholly compatible with a disciplinary vision of literary studies rooted in hermeneutics and critical theory. Indeed, Weizenbaum cites the Frankfurt School and late literary critic Steven Marcus as formative...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 450–454.
Published: 01 June 2003
... the inclusion of such traditions for granted without
also requiring rigorous evaluation of the disciplinary methods necessary for
attending to them. The result has been a methodological confusion emanating...
View articletitled, The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre; Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater; Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture; Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture
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Announcements
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 429–431.
Published: 01 June 2015
... highlighting the diverse
disciplinary, institutional, and political contributions of American literature to
higher education and community-based teaching and learning.
American Literature, Volume 87, Number 2, June 2015
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2886355 © 2015 by Duke University Press
430 American...
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Announcements
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 221–224.
Published: 01 March 2015
... out of specific scholarly concerns, we wish to illustrate the
intersection of theory and pedagogical practice while highlighting the diverse
disciplinary, institutional, and political contributions of American literature to
higher education and community-based teaching and learning...
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Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831.
Published: 01 December 2002
... of disciplinary isolationism. Dur-
ing World War II, Lawrence exploits an informal alliance among once
discrete intellectual spheres. After the war, however, the long, inhos-
pitable era of the Cold War perverts that alliance, and Lawrence
responds by retreating to a university in Washington state, where he...
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The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 275–303.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., intense but idiosyncratic religiosity, and deep sympathy with
the natural world. Ivar is allowed to remain unshod but faces a far more
threatening disciplinary mechanism: the Hastings mental institution.
Still, despite her...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 213–223.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of theory and pedagogical practice while highlighting the diverse disciplinary, institutional, and political contributions of American literature to higher education and community-based teaching and learning. It’s been almost fifty years since Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire urged...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 857–863.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., $85.00;
e-book, $84.99.
Although Thoreau has been analyzed by critics from numerous disciplinary
perspectives, including literary criticism, psychology, and geology, Sullivan is
American Literature, Volume 87, Number 4, December 2015
DOI 10.1215/00029831-3329758 © 2015 by Duke University...
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Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2017
... for new frameworks and approaches to Southern studies that are grounded in reality, as opposed to disciplinary fantasies, and that fully acknowledge the flux of the field. While Lowe focuses on the connections between the cultures of the US South and the Caribbean and Smith focuses on the relationship...
View articletitled, Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
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The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2016
... engages with elements of literature produced for and about women. New trends in cultural studies challenge disciplinary as well as geographical boundaries. Resistance to center/periphery constructs in reformulated fields has led at once to unearthing new texts and subjects, and to reengaging topics...
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What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., these works show how “the material component— technology narrowly conceived as a physical device—is merely one part of a complex social and institutional matrix” (Marx 1997 : 979). While the presence of several different disciplinary orientations in scholarly collections such as the ones reviewed here...
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Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies Where Is American Literature? Object Lessons
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2015
...: Wiley-
Blackwell. 2013. viii, 202 pp. Cloth, $87.95; paper, $27.95.
Object Lessons. By Robyn Wiegman. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2012. x, 398
pp. Cloth, $87.95; paper, $27.95.
The three books under review here all contribute to an understanding of how
disciplinary systems have shaped...
View articletitled, Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies Where Is American Literature? Object Lessons
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 825–827.
Published: 01 December 2015
... criti-
cism and introduce new literacies and new analytic practices to studies of the
colonial era and early Republic. Thanks to these efforts, the temporal, spatial,
and disciplinary boundaries of early American studies look nothing like they
did a generation ago. Indeed, a sampling...
View articletitled, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
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Preface: Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 705–714.
Published: 01 December 2002
... responded to the current situa-
tion, we see an opportunity for creative and productive responses
to the emergence of new forms of knowledge, of cross-disciplinary
American Literature, Volume 74, Number 4, December 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke
University Press.
706 American Literature...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 383–397.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., for representation itself. We say exuberant , productively overflowing, to mark how literature gives us the elasticity to think poverty beyond the disciplinary walls that segregate thought around it and beyond the representational need to make the poor, and even impoverishment, apprehensible. We have put together...
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