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... with them in their highly affective and emotionally charged language. And in her analysis of ‘‘Home Burial ‘‘A Servant to Servants and ‘‘The Death of the Hired Man Kilcup underlines Frost’s ability to convey the experience...

... those between man and machine, nature and culture, human and ani- mal) that define the human being as biologically and psychically dis- tinct from the material worlds it inhabits.8 This quality of figures to “co-­shape” or transform one another’s material and psychic existence is also explored...

...Max Cavitch Duke University Press 2003 Max The Man That Was Used Up: Cavitch Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington 6849...

...Dolan Hubbard By Charles Duncan. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xx, 214 pp. $36.95. 2003 190 American Literature The Absent Man: The Narrative Quest of Charles W. Chesnutt. By Charles Duncan...

...Brooke Hopkins John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds. New York: Knopf. 2005. x, 578 pp. $35.00. 2006 Book Reviews John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War...

.... For those who have decided to travel to Kerouac territory, Jones’s study will make an excellent guidebook. John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines...

...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion...

...Lena M. Hill Hill examines how art theory and plastic art objects facilitate Ellison's presentation of African American consciousness in Invisible Man . When considered alongside manuscripts of the novel in addition to letters and other archival material, the published text emerges as heavily...

...Keith Byerman © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore . By Patrick B. Mullen. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African...

...Douglas A. Jones, Jr. Abstract This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of repetition...

...Scott Selisker This essay considers Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison's other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible...

..., unsettling codas that distinguish his greatest fictional narratives, from Moby-Dick through The Confidence-Man. ‘‘Something further may follow of this Masquerade the latter concludes, but this deeply ironic suggestion of a sequel marked the end of Melville’s career as a novelist. ThebulkofMonumental...

...Hildegard Hoeller A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. By John Dudley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. viii, 222 pp. $35.00. Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer L. Fleissner. Chicago: Univ...

... Melanie . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2008 . xiv , 263 pp. Cloth , $71.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 . By Wells Jeremy . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 238 pp...

... the heads gold and blowing these dry grasses eaten in fear by man and horses.” How can you teach a daughter to unremember, this asks? When care takes the shape of being in place, the impossibility of unknowing a history. Driving past grasses blowing . . . the grasses, Long Soldier tells us, that white...

... but nothingness, and that man’s achievements were all finally perishable—cosmic jokes, like man himself” (5). When Theodore discovers that his mistress, Lelia Ballesteros, has been raped, murdered, and mutilated, his abstract pes- simism is confronted with the violent realities of a senseless world. Her...

.... Walwyn ( 1782 : 15) explained in his An Essay on Comedy , character sketches should depict “general characters,” since overly “particular characters” will not allow readers to perceive and contemplate the character types—such as the “vain man”—that categorize and define “human nature.” Borrowing...