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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 123–134.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and queries of the ontology of value, it reads how Wright makes way for modes of thought that, while scorned by normative aims and logics, produce new perspectives, habits, and, perhaps, avenues for individual fulfilment in an otherwise absurd world hostile to black life and personhood. douglas.a.jones...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 615–618.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value . By Tom Lutz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. vii, 226 pp. Paper, $19.95. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 623–625.
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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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Robert E. Abrams Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses . By Grimstad Paul . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 176 pp. Cloth, $69.00 ; e-book available. Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 338–341.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage . By Joe Rollins . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2018 . ix, 193 pp. Cloth, $50.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Naomi Morgenstern considers the ways literature represents anxieties surrounding...
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American Literature 10575204.
Published: 17 March 2023
...R. Joshua Scannell scannellrj@newschool.edu The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being . By Ramon Amaro . Berlin : Sternberg Press . 2023 . 152 pp. Paper $25 . The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
... for encountering oppositional histories of urban space. Without ignoring the problems of racialization, economic neglect, and social violence, public housing fiction like Trumbull Park and Stateway’s Garden establishes a sense of place based on a value that is phenomenological. Value is arbitrary, albeit its...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in the Taiwanese context, with focus on the material value of an English degree and the potential expansion of the degree beyond the isolated major. 3 See statistics provided in American Academy of Arts and Sciences n.d.a . PhDs awarded in the humanities also dropped in the 1970s, though far less than...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism in economic theory and realism in American literary practice were contemporaneous efforts to mediate value at a moment...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... educational value can help us better understand today’s debates about fiction’s role in the classroom, because they reveal just how much is taken for granted in our contemporary arguments about fiction. The article argues that recent work on fictionality (and on historical poetics generally) allows us to come...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as mass-market consumerism and corporate culture were the counterpoints against which both writers articulated their modernist values. Furthermore, each text figures its author as an American modernist via a nationalized economic imaginary that emphasizes progress, risk, and perseverance as distinguishing...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Elizabeth Duquette Through a sustained analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel, Dred (1856), this essay argues for the reevaluation of Stowe's political and moral priorities and values. Focusing on the novel's examination of interest, the essay shows how Stowe challenges one...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 57–90.
Published: 01 March 2010
... include humorous asides from Samuel Ringgold Ward during an 1853 address of the Congregational Union in England, Douglass's speech “The Proclamation and a Negro Army” (1863), and several of Douglass's statements about the racial and political value of his hair from various sources. © 2010 by Duke...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Michael Ziser Under the influence of Calvinist and radical abolitionist John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson reconsidered the value of political activism rooted in absolutist and sectarian religious beliefs. Retreating from the earlier declarations of secular and democratic individualism for which he...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2010
... value. Attending more carefully to how these urban ecologists redeveloped the ways in which their communities should be understood, Rowan argues, allows us to reexamine the legacies left by those who opposed it—a heritage that many now fear turned a blind eye to issues of social justice. © 2010...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
... done particular damage to the humanities. Both overall national educational attainment and advanced academic research will be improved by building funding structures with egalitarian procedures and goals—which require greatly expanded public funding—and faculty will need to adopt egalitarian values...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the figurative and rhetorical modalities by which the limb gained its symbolic value and affective force. Moby-Dick , Taylor argues, turns the figurative operations that Melville isolated in his reading of Barnum into a hermeneutic for interpreting the symbolic economies governing the interclass relations...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 59–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
... notions of authorship, moral authority, and literary value in the second half of the nineteenth century. Noting that a significant strain of commentary on the scandal sought to separate Byron's literary genius from the matter of his personal behavior, Ryan argues that this case study allows us to situate...
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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 (2014) 86 (2): 217–243.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of print in this period was at times incommensurate with the values and practices of Native historiography. Through an analysis of Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827), Radus argues that Cusick, a Tuscarora historian, used various rhetorical and narrative techniques to alter...
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