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Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 June 2001
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back to the poetry, wherein we can contemplate more keenly the resilience
of imagination on the other side of loss.
James Applewhite, Duke University
Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form...
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Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 430–432.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Marissa López Duke University Press 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire . By María DeGuzmán. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxiii, 372 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. The Twentieth-Century Spanish American...
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“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Tamlyn Avery Abstract As Nathan Waddell has recently argued of the literary modernists whose aesthetic incorporation of the Beethovenian legend complicates the dominant view of modernism as an antitraditionalist enterprise, Ludwig van Beethoven’s music has in fact left a more significant...
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Captaine Smith, Colonial Novelist
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 September 2003
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narrative genres, combined so as to reorder our understanding of good
and evil; I then move to the Pocahontas legend to discuss the impor-
tant role of Indians in fictionally triangulating European relationships;
and I...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 424–425.
Published: 01 June 2001
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of imagination on the other side of loss.
James Applewhite, Duke University
Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction.
By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press...
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Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America; At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 214–215.
Published: 01 March 2003
... a stunning array of source material, these books
ask how contemporary legends simultaneously feed off and into the major
bases of social division that structure U.S. society. Ingebretsen focuses pri-
marily upon...
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Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 437–438.
Published: 01 June 2001
... AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 211 of 232 Life of a Slave Girl; Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Hisaye
Yamamoto’s ‘‘The Legend of Miss Sasagawara and Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy’s People Who Led to My...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 416–422.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., and France linked the two writers’ lives and works and concludes with a study of the tension between wanderlust and the desire for home. Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend . By Roy Morris Jr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2019. xi, 252 pp. Cloth, $24.95; e...
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Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America; Reimagining the American Pacific: From “South Pacific” to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 212–214.
Published: 01 March 2003
... a stunning array of source material, these books
ask how contemporary legends simultaneously feed off and into the major
bases of social division that structure U.S. society. Ingebretsen focuses pri-
marily upon...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the Transatlantic Materials of American Literature
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 727–759.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and his hero into a diachronic and transnational literary culture; in the first chapter alone Hyperion references Tudor dramatist John Lyly’s Endymion , Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, the legend of Roland, and the German tales of Siegfried. Translation is also central to Longfellow’s project...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 899–907.
Published: 01 December 2000
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Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. Ed. Katharine
B. Judson. DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. 204 pp. Cloth, $38.00; paper,
6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 210 of238 $18.00.
First...
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Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 September 2001
... contrast to the early demise of the Wild West’s
outlaw Billy the Kid. Momaday uses the legend of Billy the Kid to
castintoreliefthehistoryoftheKiowa’sorigininthewildernessand
their declension from it; in his personal retracing of that migration,
he hopes to reverse American spiritual renunciation...
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The Floating Icon and the Fluid Text: Rereading the Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... One can, of course,
dismiss the question altogether and note simply that Narrative of So-
journer Truth was written in the United States and addresses the life
and legend of a prominent activist who confronted her audiences on
American Literature, Volume 78, Number 3, September 2006
DOI 10.1215...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 892–895.
Published: 01 December 2003
... an American Quilt to legends and storytelling in Zitkala Ša’s Ameri-
can Indian Stories,aswellasChesnutt’sThe Conjure Woman. Each chapter
joins literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to suggest how...
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Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 418.
Published: 01 June 2001
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legends surrounding Poe’s demise. The most persistent of these is ‘‘that Poe
was captured by an electioneering band [in Baltimore], ‘cooped’ [imprisoned
inacellar],drugged,draggedtothepolls,andafterhavingvotedthe
6363 AMERICAN...
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Disseminating Common Sense : Thomas Paine and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
... gospel in one county on one night, but Common Sense
proselytized an entire continent. The myth of Paul Revere inheres
in his local person, the labor of his body, but the legend of Common
Sense has overvaulted its maker, and Paine himself is hardly men-
tioned in historiographic accounts...
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The Dutchman in the Attic: Claiming an Inheritance in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2000
... to the youthful William Shakespeare, echoingcentral events
in ‘‘Rip Van Winkle ‘‘The Spectral Bridegroom and ‘‘The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow ‘‘The Art of Book-Making’’ distinguishes Crayon’s
‘‘poaching’’ from the English...
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Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture,1900-1950
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 426–427.
Published: 01 June 2001
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biography, and Jones and like-minded scholars also seek to go beyond the
6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 200 of 232 legend of Kerouac. The psychoanalytic framework that Jones establishes for
his study is well-suited to discussing Kerouac’s ‘‘spontaneous prose...
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The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 June 2001
... for the striking tale, from Quigley’s The Prophet of the Ruined Abbey
(1885), a ferociously nationalist faux-legend, to Maureen Howard’s dazzling
6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 208 of 232 Natural History (1992). Yet he reserves most respect for realist immigrant...
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Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 434–435.
Published: 01 June 2001
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(1885), a ferociously nationalist faux-legend, to Maureen Howard’s dazzling
6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 208 of 232 Natural History (1992). Yet he reserves most respect for realist immigrant
accounts.
Fanning wears his...
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