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in “The General Practice of the Nation”: Walt Whitman, Language, and Computerized Search in the Nineteenth-Century Archive > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2016
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The Floating Icon and the Fluid Text: Rereading the Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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John Ernest
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 459–486.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-022
Published: 01 September 2006
...John Ernest Duke University Press 2006 John The Floating Icon and the Fluid Text: Ernest Rereading the Narrative of Sojourner Truth It is perhaps unsurprising, given Sojourner Truth’s unique place in the popular and scholarly imagination, that her...
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The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

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Emily J. Lordi
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 631–633.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717344
Published: 01 September 2014
...Emily J. Lordi The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity . By Brown Caroline A. . New York : Routledge . 2012 . xvi , 289 pp. Cloth , $128.00 ; paper , $44.95 . Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text...
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Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

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Leonard Tennenhouse
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-073
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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Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics

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Bob Perelman
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 867–869.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-867
Published: 01 December 2005
...Bob Perelman 2005 Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy . By Marjorie Perloff. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics . By Barrett Watten. Middletown, Conn...
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The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries; Writing Machines; Cognitive Fictions

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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 869–872.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-869
Published: 01 December 2005
...Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 2005 The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen . By John Bryant. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $55.50; paper, $20.95; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries . By Loss Pequeño Glazier. Tuscaloosa...
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From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts; Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now; Poetic Acts and New Media

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Lisa Swanstrom
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 466–468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266198
Published: 01 June 2011
...Lisa Swanstrom From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts . By Peter L. Shillingsburg. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. v, 216 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95. Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now . By Gary...
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Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts

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Heather Houser
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 637–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160954
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2015 . vii, 260 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts . By Zapf Hubert . London : Bloomsbury . 2016 . ix, 301 pp. Cloth , $114.00 ; e-book, $28.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...
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Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

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Kevin Modestino
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533470
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kevin Modestino Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy . By Mark Rebecca . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xiii, 300 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 . America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National...
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Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture

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Stephen Cushman
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 172–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056672
Published: 01 March 2020
... Gilbert . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2018 . xii, 370 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $32.95 ; e-book available. The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq . By Owen W. Gilman Jr. Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2018...
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Echocriticism: Repetition and the Order of Texts

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Meredith L. McGill
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453636
Published: 01 March 2016
...Meredith L. McGill In this essay I examine the disruption to the textual order caused by reprinted texts, arguing that the American tradition of textual editing can help us identify some of the invisible forms of repetition that structure the literary field. Pioneering figures such as W. W. Greg...
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Authors, Readers, Contexts, Texts

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Robert S. Levine
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 645–655.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664746
Published: 01 September 2012
...Robert S. Levine © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Robert S. Authors, Readers, Contexts, Texts Levine Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Pub- lication. By Michael Kearns. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2010. xii, 171 pp. $45.95...
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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

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Lisa Lynch
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2322595
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lisa Lynch Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics . By Holloway Karla F. C. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . 225 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic...
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The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song

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Chris Forster
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 623–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717317
Published: 01 September 2014
...Chris Forster The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture . By Graham T. Austin . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . xvii , 293 pp. $65.00 . Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song . By Comentale Edward...
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Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-1-199-a
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 Collections Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts . Ed. David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. xxviii, 320 pp. $50.00. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate...
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The Invention of Native American Literature; Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 405–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-405
Published: 01 June 2004
... intellectual biography, organized around central habits of nineteenth-century scientific thought: patterns of gnomic growth, polarity, evolution (vii). Texts by Goethe, de Staël, Coleridge, Dugald Stewart, John Herschel, William Whewell, Louis Agassiz, and Charles Darwin powerfully shaped Emerson’s thinking...
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Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis

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Anne Carroll
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 89–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-89
Published: 01 March 2004
...Anne Carroll Duke University Press 2004 Anne Protest and Affirmation: Carroll Composite Texts in the Crisis The Crisis has long been recognized for its instru- mentality in the early civil rights struggle and for its promotion of Afri- can American...
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Figure 2 Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The One Arm and One Leg Soldier,” United States, s.n., not before 1865. Source: the American Antiquarian Society. “The One-Arm Soldier,” United States, s.n., circa 1870. Source: the Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The ...

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in Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2 Mendicant texts featuring a commonly circulated poem. George M. Reed, “The One Arm and One Leg Soldier,” United States, s.n., not before 1865. Source: the American Antiquarian Society. “The One-Arm Soldier,” United States, s.n., circa 1870. Source: the Harvard Medical Library Rare Books More
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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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in Super Fly: François Makandal’s Colonial Semiotics > American Literature
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 More
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Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper

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T. J. Martinson
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 729–753.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950779
Published: 01 December 2023
...T. J. Martinson Abstract While postmodern metafiction (or reflexive fiction ) is commonly positioned outside the scope of the Ontological Turn due to metafiction’s association with postmodernism’s insistence on “world as text,” this article argues that metafiction’s proximity to scientific theories...
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