Search Results for the 1960s

... half century, this is a point whose significance cannot be exaggerated. Yes, a concern with categories of identity, coming from the “new social movements” of the 1960s, dramatically changed what counts as ethical criticism, and did so for the better. Yet an exclusive or even primary reverence...

... , in the politically contentious years of the early 1960s, at the beginning of the movement of the antinuclear left. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Japanese Ministry of Education, Internal Affairs . Kokutai no hongi [The Essence of the National Polity] . Tokyo : Ministry...

...Andrew Strombeck Abstract This article examines tensions between I Hotel 's sprawling, experimental form—which appears tailored to the disruptions of the 1960s and 1970s—and its continual return to the stabilizing function of the hotel itself. I Hotel meditates on the problems and possibilities...

... with the Amazon present in the author's novels coexists with his defense of drastic changes in the region through environmental exploitation and the acculturation of Indigenous populations. While Vargas Llosa's work enjoyed a positive reception in the 1960s, the nontransitive notion of mimesis he proposed has...

... apposite. A Novel Marketplace offers an historical analysis of the ostensibly antagonistic and yet paradoxical symbiotic relation- ship between the novel business and mass culture in the 1950s and early 1960s. Brier states (and often restates) this paradox: as publishers were selling out to or being...

.... 336, paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 These two books address the novel's cultural roles relative to prominent political institutions in the post–World War II United States. Michael Szalay's Hip Figures ties together the 1960s rebranding of the Democratic...

.... In Kindred, the device of time travel operates as a distancing mechanism as much as a vehicle of identification between the black subject shaped by the mili- tant racial politics of the 1960s and the antebellum slave. Wild Seed grapples with the difficulty of interarticulating racial and gender...

... commitment. So from the politicized experiments in total freedom of the 1960s and 1970s, we arrive at a depoliticized form of writing in the present. And this condition is not unlike the political condition of our moment, in which rather than have discussions about what forms of authority might provide...

... in a Thousand Cities . Greenwich : Fawcett , 1960 . Auden W. H. Letter to Patricia Highsmith . n.d. Scrapbook 1, Box B4–b2–SCR1 . Patricia Highsmith Papers . Swiss Literary Archives , Bern . Berlant Lauren . The Female Complaint . Durham : Duke UP , 2008 . Booth Wayne C...

..., 1994 . Hogue , W. Lawrence . Race, Modernity, Postmodernity: A Look at the History and the Literature of People of Color Since the 1960s . New York: SUNY P, 1996 . Hutcheon , Linda . A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction . London and New York: Routledge, 1988...

... it as emerging through an antagonistic relationship with the social. Departing from prevailing views of identity politics as a by-product of Asian American history and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Lee figures identity as a “kind of semblance whose value stems from its antagonistic relation...

... before World War I to the late 1960s is a narrative representation of the rise and fall of “the last true leisure class” in the history of the West (Anderson, “Modernity” 326, 335). Now it is not really news to find a Marxist arguing for the good of conserva- tive writers—think of Friedrich...

... Introduces India . Ed. Francis , Robert Moraes and Howe Edward. Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. London: André Deutsch, 1974 . ———. The Silence of Desire . New York: John Day, 1960 . ———. Some Inner Fury . New York: John Day, 1955 . ———. Two Virgins . New York: John Day...

... mirrors’ at a fair during Independence celebrations . 1960 . Magnum Photos, New York. Tutuola , Amos . The Palm-Wine Drinkard . New York; Grove P, 1953 . Woolf , Virginia . “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.” 1924. Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf . Vol. 1 . New York: Harcourt, 1967...

... Gone (2001) and Ursula K. LeGuin's Lavinia (2008)—rewritings of Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, Margaret Mitchell, and Virgil, respectively. The tactic of writing back to the canonical forebear has consolidated itself since the heady days of the metafictional 1960s and the multicultural 1980s...

... with the dismissive phrase “es weltet” (it is worlding) (73). The social and experiential fragmentation embraced by the modernists provided literature with a dominant paradigm more or less until the late 1960s, at which point the prevailing attitude toward totality in the novel shifted once again. Rising young...

... of individual agency associated with the postmodern cultural terrain” (54). If one reads Vida this way, then “the post-1960s perception of totalization appears as itself smith | feminism in time 155 a compensatory paranoid construction specifically...

... begun to weaken by the late 1960s, but the full-scale neoliberal globalization of Israel commenced after 1985, the year in which the state implemented the Emergency Plan for Economic Stabilization. As of that moment, neoliberal forces became autonomous from the state, allowing private life to have...

... to contingency, contradiction, and overdetermination. The other functions as a semiconcealed but coherent network of rational agents subtending and determining the social world. The paranoid chronotope is first exemplified in fiction of the 1950s and 1960s by writers like Philip K. Dick and the Thomas Pynchon...

... Barth/Barthelme/Coover word, fabulism, McClure sees “ontological plural­ism” (34), the presentation of multiple realities, with many of these realities “thickly en­chanted” (39). When Pynchon writes in Vineland that there are Thanatoids, ghosts of the countercultural 1960s, roaming Northern...