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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Leonard Tennenhouse © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System . By Michelle Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $30.00. Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Lauren Coats © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900 . Ed. Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press. 2007. 367 pp. $65.00. Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 877–879.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Anne Charles © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias . By Dunja...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the governmental function of producing docile citizens, or “citizens
as administrators of themselves” (6).
In Castiglia’s assessment, the idea of a nervous system, a psyche perpetu-
ally at war with itself, supplanted that of a genuinely participatory democracy.
Americanness emerged through the practice...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., $24.95.
Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice. By Devin Johns-
ton. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $40.00;
paper, $19.95...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 843–845.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Michael Lundblad © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice . Ed. Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Marshall, Daniel J. Philippon, and Adam W. Sweeting. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. ix, 278 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2016
... , 263 pp. Cloth, $53.00 ; e-book available. Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect . By Houser Heather . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2014 . xi , 309 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book, $54.99 . The Practice of Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 605–607.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Susan Scott Parrish Environmental Practice and Early American Literature . By Ziser Michael . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . ii , 224 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; e-book, $72.00 . Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics...
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Published: 01 September 2019
Figure 5 This demonstrates Courtin’s practice of adding content to the left margin with a star in the margin and in the text indicating where the added material should be inserted. Courtesy of Les Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
... that are not immediately apparent. I suggest that if we as literary scholars are to use word search in our research, we should approach it from a philological point of view, actively exploring the limits of our knowledge about the linguistic practices of the past and considering the effects of technological mediation...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 413–416.
Published: 01 June 2013
... . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 292 pp. $99.00 . On the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics . By Davidson Michael . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan Univ. Press . 2011 . 344 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $27.95 ; e-book , $21.99 . Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2009
... primarily in terms of its communicative practices. On the one hand, a deliberative democracy would appear to need some minimal “common standards” of what constitutes reasoned communication. On the other, it also seeks to allow as much genuine difference to enter into democratic deliberations as possible...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 403–406.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Simon Stow The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times . By Christopher Castiglia . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 223 pp. Cloth, $ 89.00 ; paper, $ 28.00 ; e-book, $ 28.00 . Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... reform project in Walden hinges on diet and Thoreau's attitude toward literal “groceries.” Thoreau's interest in dietary practices has generally been read as apolitical or even antipolitical, primarily because his dietary and consumptive practices have never been adequately situated amid contemporary...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Tina Chen Abstract This article proposes ethical alienation as a critical pedagogical practice by analyzing the neoteric critical consolidation of Asian American literary and cultural studies, a consolidation marked by the recent (and near simultaneous) publication of four major compendiums...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
... at the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of Indian savagery. Yet these depictions of the repugnant, that is, of ancient practices now prohibited by law or found reprehensible by a public sense of ethics, allow Howe to escape the integrative thrust of contemporary multiculturalism by preempting identification...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 251–278.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Mark Chia-Yon Jerng Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 769–797.
Published: 01 December 2008
... shaped a dominant practice of reading that had a regulative effect, narrowing what counted as acceptable antiracism. Melamed reads Chester Himes's End of a Primitive as a novel where we see satire deliberately misfired in an attempt to dehegemonize racial liberal meanings secured through the discourse...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Jim Casey; Sarah H. Salter Abstract This essay calls for the concerted study of editorship as a distinct mode of cultural expression. Given that the collaborative craft of editors is often invisible, the study of editorship requires attending to the practices, habits, and techniques of editing...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ana Schwartz Abstract This essay introduces the concept of imperative reading as one solution to the tension between implicitly suspicious historicist methods, on one hand, and, on the other, postcritical practices of reading that prioritize readerly pleasure over readerly paranoia. Imperative...
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