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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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... the 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... (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...