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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 September 2019
... signs colonial archive interpretive methods In November 2018 I visited the Musée Ogier-Fombrun in Montrouis, Haiti, with two Haitians I’d recently met in Port-au-Prince. Our guide recounted a story that incorporated the vestiges of the sugar plantation under our feet into a narrative...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
...—that reading should be self-evidently fun. Fowler’s strategies for alleviating this burden renew our understanding of historicist methods and the symptomatic mood of critique. They are instruments for future repair even as they afford us practice in noticing and interpreting the particularities that liberal...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Jess Libow Abstract This essay traces the visual cultures that emerged around Civil War soldiers’ pain and argues that the method of portraiture has much to offer the field of health humanities. It begins by tracing efforts to capture Civil War soldiers’ pain in both popular and clinical media...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 91–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
... anew. 9 In the case of The Scarlet Letter , I use historical cripistemology to show how this kind of disability history reframes our understanding of reading and interpretation in the romance, cripping exegesis, or what we often think of today as close reading. As a method, historical...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 853–855.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., institutions, and processes that leave
their stamp on any meaning they transmit. The medium is the modernist mes-
sage. Taken together, these studies suggest a marked departure from the
interpretive methods we can trace back to the cultural critique of the Frank-
furt School. Learned and richly...
View articletitled, Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 637–640.
Published: 01 September 2017
... “focused on the individual, whether as a green consumer, nature reader, or backpacker,” thereby “reproduc[ing] a logic of individual choice” and reinstalling conditions for the failure of large-scale climate action (189). Thus we find a logic for Trexler’s own interpretive method: he surveys the many...
View articletitled, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
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for article titled, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the infrastructure of medial forms, institutions, and processes that leave
their stamp on any meaning they transmit. The medium is the modernist mes-
sage. Taken together, these studies suggest a marked departure from the
interpretive methods we can trace back to the cultural critique of the Frank-
furt School...
View articletitled, Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia the Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood Neocybernetics and Narrative
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for article titled, Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia the Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood Neocybernetics and Narrative
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
Published: 01 September 2020
... established interpretive methods for reading texts authored by Native people and for illuminating Native narratives embedded in colonial archives. Wyss, for example, emphasized how Native men and women used Christianity and English literacy not merely for missionaries’ aims but to support tribal communities...
View articletitled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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for article titled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 807–820.
Published: 01 December 2007
... both the virtues of preservation and the
miscues of interpretation can be displayed. McGann, however, takes a
different approach, one in which interpretative methods are critiqued
largely in absentia while a direct address of the preserving methods
and implications of McGann’s proposed model...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
Published: 01 December 2006
... was the
last stronghold of European civilization in the western hemisphere’’
is indicative of the frame of mind in which Anglo-American culture
was perceived as the opposite of a morally corrupt and industrialized
North.2 This ideology also guided the interpretative methods of New
Criticism, which spread...
View articletitled, “Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 571–584.
Published: 01 September 2020
... political power of aesthetics” (15). For such a project, the claims of New Historicism become somewhat suspect because they rely on the unsteady importation of historical research with what this project claims becomes the corollary indifference to “text-based interpretative methods,” otherwise known...
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American Literature 11845230.
Published: 07 March 2025
... a substitution of published stereotypes for experiential particulars. Takahata instrumentalizes this impasse to forward an interpretative method that respects the limits of what cannot be known about Native Americans, suggesting that their obscure presence in the text may re ect an evasion of the colonizer s...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2017
... writing that theorizes reading as a racialized interpretive practice. Moya’s method illustrates her claim that contemporary African American and Latina/o literature rewards close reading within a social context. Psychological studies show that interracial friendship can alter “racial schemas.” Moya...
View articletitled, The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
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for article titled, The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Criticism only makes matters worse—on both sides of the Pacific. Whatever its pedagogical virtues, most in Taiwan learned close reading as a method that validates the Western canon; so in addition to disruptions in what, how, and even who we teach, interpretive writing based on the principles of New...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
Published: 01 September 2016
... scholarship, developing more and more entrenched infrastructures for its practice within academic institutions, relatively little attention has been paid within that scholarship to the infrastructures of the digital itself. Digital humanities scholarship is primarily seen and sold as a method...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that tries to understand the act of commensuration, of making sign systems compatible with one another” (5). He draws on methods from computational linguistics and data science to show how the quantitative study of large sets of literary works can and should change our understanding of literature. Whereas...
View articletitled, Enumerations: Data and Literary Study Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture
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for article titled, 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 (2018) 90 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2018
... are searching for new interpretive models, Perrin’s key method is old-fashioned “close reading” (16). Yet this method here opens up exciting new frontiers for scholars of midcentury US literature. What may be most bracing about Perrin’s volume is its suggestion that you can do a close reading of, say, James...
View articletitled, American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 418–420.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Victoria Szabo Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History . By Jockers Matthew L. . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2013 . x , 192 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper , $30.00 . From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature...
View articletitled, Macroanalysis: Digital <span class="search-highlight">Methods</span> and Literary History from Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 705–731.
Published: 01 December 2022
... into the production and reception of literature itself. These traits account for the “eco” side of Vollmann’s ecohistoricist method. A similar negotiation between mimesis and interpretation is evident in his treatment of historical material. The Dying Grass engages in many of the practices associated...
View articletitled, The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . Douglass Jeremy . 2009 . “ The Art of Dominant Color in Film .” Software Studies Initiative (blog) . February 27 . lab.softwarestudies.com/2009/02/art-of-dominant-color-in-film.html . Drucker Johanna . 2010 . “ Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation .” MIT...
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