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...Bill Christophersen Duke University Press 2000 Bill Agnostic Tensions in Christophersen Hawthorne’s Short Stories 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 139 of 237 Herman Melville...

...- cal texts and on several texts that have seldom received critical scrutiny, notably the love letters he (in his proper persona) wrote to Olivia L. Lang- don, later Livy Clemens, and a short biographical sketch he arranged to have...

...- cal texts and on several texts that have seldom received critical scrutiny, notably the love letters he (in his proper persona) wrote to Olivia L. Lang- don, later Livy Clemens, and a short biographical sketch he arranged to have...

.... of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 312 pp. $34.95. By Jace Weaver. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xiv, 381 pp.$34.95. 2003 450 American Literature The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre.By...

... Book Reviews 871 Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James. By Donatella Izzo. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2001. viii, 312 pp. $60.00. Henry James...

...Frederick Luis Aldama © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954 . By Christopher P. Lehman. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. 152 pp. $29.95. What Have They Built You to Do...

...Zachary Martin Issues of historicity in short forms also cast a shadow over Morson’s study, as he acknowledges. Rhetorical considerations of audience and occasion mold these materials, and the sheer multiplicity and co-optability of the brief and the pithy threaten that individual texts may...

...-Century Women’s Relations in the Short Story.By Christine Palumbo-DeSimone. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 176 pp. $34.50. In her call for a rereading of nineteenth-century women’s...

... University Press 2012 Christopher  “He Fell Just Short of Being News”: P. Wilson Gatsby ’s Tabloid Shadows Few passages in American fiction evoke the modern city as memorably as a famous interlude by Nick Carraway in the early pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great...

... of technologies that infused the public sphere with art and beautiful images of human forms, leading the modern spectator to see others as potential reflections of herself. Mikkelsen's examination begins with a reading of the short story “Wings”; continues with a discussion of Jewish American involvement...

... allegorically through the performative sublime of Sonata “Pathétique” in Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912); the sublime melancholy of the “Moonlight” Sonata in Hughes’s tragic short story “Home” (1934); the spiritual sublime of Beethoven’s piano concerti and the Ninth Symphony in Baldwin’s...

... Ravenel alongside Whitman's Specimen Days and De Forest's short fiction, essays, and later novels, this essay explores the larger question of how literature has attempted to make the “social passion” of patriotism available to the senses. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Stephanie...

... together disparate elements into a single, legible identity. Threats to this identity reemerge through science-fiction narratives, which allow readers to obtain a cool and estranged perspective on otherwise disturbing ideas and emotions. Nevertheless, Playboy rejected even speculative short stories...

... à clef and his only long work of fiction set in Paris, in James Baldwin's short story “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” (1960) rather than his celebrated Paris novel, Giovanni's Room (1956), and in the understudied author William Gardner Smith's last novel The Stone Face (1963). The essay highlights...

... of reflexivity engenders a shift toward what the article calls body as text , a shift that is synchronous with reflexivity’s evolution from cybernetics to biological autopoiesis. To trace metafiction’s aesthetic evolution from world as text to body as text, the article examines Jorge Luis Borges’s short story...

... contemporary disability representations in both “empty sleeve” discourse and in US pension law, drawing attention to how economic structures shaped the experience of living with an impairment and to the social determinants of poverty. At the same time, mendicant texts stopped short of arguing for a wholesale...

... and through bureaucratic memos. This assembly provides the backdrop for a consideration of the text of Thomas Mann’s “Mario and the Magician,” a short story published in the Armed Services Editions in 1944, whose plot not only mirrors the tension between authority and free will manifested in the geopolitical...

... are complicated by Eddleman Reed’s racial politics, her own (non)citizenship, and the contents of her short sentimental fiction, all of which did as much to reinscribe racialized notions of Indigeneity as they did to challenge prevailing settler assumptions about Native people. Reed has been hailed as a recovered...

..., and sensitivity to civilization advanced by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, particularly in her short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” as well as by members of the Women’s Rest Tour Association (WRTA), a late nineteenth-century collectivity of women committed to traveling abroad without men. Constellating Gilman’s...

.... The infrastructures of relationality that emerge in a world in which climate crises have broken down the infrastructures of capitalism provide a platform from which individuals can practice a mode of collective thinking and being that offers an alternative to the alienation upon which extractivism depends. In short...