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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 650–653.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . 199 pp. Cloth , $87.50 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists . By Posnock Ross . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 415 pp. Cloth , $46.50 ; e-book available...
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Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity; Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... These two studies, different in so many
ways, share the belief that modernism demanded renunciations that liberated
artists but at a considerable psychic and cultural cost. For Newcomb, whose
concerns are with poets of the 1890–1910 generation, the cost was giving up
any claim of bourgeois acceptance...
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Territories of Empire: US Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence Abolitionist Geographies
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2016
... it generated, and found radical potential instead
in the stasis of the national and the regional. Schoolman’s fullest case study is
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, she carefully shows, developed an ethical posi-
tion around the renunciation of transnational movement of goods, bodies, and
ideas. She also...
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Faulkner and the Politics of Reading; Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's “Go Down, Moses”
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in Freytag-Loringhoven’s lack of
hygiene, she makes only scattered references to her virulent anti-Semitism. It
tells us a great deal about modernism’s various renunciations and deprivations
that Jones would advance the abject Baroness as its most exemplary figure.
David Bergman, Towson University...
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Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 745–756.
Published: 01 December 2024
...-marshaled and sentenced to a life at sea until his death, Herndon voluntarily embraces the statelessness of the ocean in his momentous decision to “renounce all citizenship in all lands.” Furthermore, this renunciation does not serve to idealize US citizenship and national belonging as in Hale’s didactic...
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Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 229–255.
Published: 01 June 2020
... that such radical renunciations accomplish anything for social justice. Annie’s compartmentalization of private irony and liberal hope is equally strategic. In her private conversations with Dr. Morrell, she persists in doubting herself and in calling attention to her false position. She views her work on behalf...
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Mary Rowlandson's Hunger and the Historiography of Sexuality
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of these same relationships or identities is used to
temper the ideas that Puritans were “puritanical” regarding sex, or
that renunciation was their sexual and emotional modus operandi.16
In contrast, I have no claims to make about the historical emergence
of particular relationships or identities...
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Reconsidering McTeague 's “Mark” and “Mac”: Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial Masculinities, and Desire between Men
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 487–517.
Published: 01 September 2006
... have
ignored the scene. This averting of the eyes illustrates an unques-
tioned assumption in scholarship on U.S. naturalism—that the genre’s
characteristically hyperbolic masculinity is always heterosexual.2 The
juxtaposition of the billiard-ball swap with Marcus’s renunciation of
his interest...
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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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Poetry, Prose, and Politics: Perspectives on Works by Haki Madhubuti
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., and the
entrenched patriarchal order.
Still, Madhubuti’s very important chapter ‘‘Rape’’ in Tough Notes,
subtitled ‘‘The Need for an Anti-rape Culture unequivocally an-
nounces his renunciation of violence against women and affirms his
general stance for and in support of women’s liberation. The chapter
ends...
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The Reading Habit and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2002
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‘‘ruin’’ in part to ‘‘the rigid stoicism and constant effort in character-
building of my youth; I was ‘over-trained’ and had wasted my sub-
stance in riotous—virtues’’ (L, 98). If Gilman’s self-analysis is correct,
she paid a heavy price for her renunciation of ‘‘wishing’’ and other
imaginative...
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Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to a renunciation of finance capitalism in favor of agrarian simplicity, but such a reading misses the point of Howells’s careful plotting. Having earlier made more money than he knew how to spend, Silas is forced at the end to consolidate his business with a more powerful rival and to accept that his own...
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Love and Theft: Plagiarism, Blackface, and Nella Larsen’s “Sanctuary”
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 509–540.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and strength of character in becoming a successful professional. I argue that by reading Larsen’s last story in conjunction with Wharton’s tale, we can see Larsen’s “Sanctuary” as both an act of bitter defiance and a declaration of defeat, one that reflects her renunciation of “the ideology of literacy...
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Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
... not surprising that Truth’s perspective continues to appear idiosyncratic and non-representative of African American protest. Rather, Truth appears to participate in a transcendent Christian “renunciative impulse” (Hyde 2018 : 53). But then dissent of this nature would hardly have made it in the Black press...
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“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.
Published: 01 December 2024
... by the territorial limits of the United States” (725). What traditionary histories make visible is that military enlistment was not always synonymous with the renunciation of cultural roots. Further, such writings cast doubt on the idea that inclusion into the US military could offer Native enlistees a sense...
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Hard-Boiled Literary History: Labor and Style in Fictions of the Culture Industry
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... it as an unattainable pure object of desire in another world is where the repressed romanticism of hard-boiled fiction manifests as melodrama. Its clearest correlative is Sam Spade’s renunciation of Brigid O’Shaughnessy in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1929), memorably captured by Humphrey Bogart’s...
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The Plow and the Pen: The Pioneering Adventures of Oscar Micheaux
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 545–569.
Published: 01 September 2003
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over white paternity; [these works] are schematic renunciations of the
prevailing order of things in white American society where, historically,
the discovery of black blood meant sudden reversal of fortune, social...
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Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to the temporary composition of the subject, and to see
that composition “merge [it]self as part of the sands and drift” (LG
1860, 196).
But an important irony also issues from this poem’s renunciation
of the central myths of the earlier Leaves—an irony signaled by the
poem’s reprisal...
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Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... American Citizenship.” Its mission was to grant Indian “wards” the status of “free American citizens” by leading new allottees through a sex-bifurcated script of renunciation. Men shoot their “last arrow” and take hold of “the plow,” thus affirming that “only by work do we gain a right to the earth...
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Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Holmes called “the mirror with the memory” (quoted in Stannard 1991 , 97), becomes an instrument of moral reform as it shifts time, transporting the past into the present, to create an enduring record that inspires and sustains the drunkard’s renunciation of the bottle. Aylmer is not only...
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