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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 176. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Matthew ArnoldCulture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (essay) 1869Elia BenamozeghMorale juive et morale chrétienne: examen comparatif suivi de quelques réflexions sur les...
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From: Culture in an Age of Money[(essay date 1990) In the following excerpt, Hendin explores the integration of emotions, individuality, materialism, and commercial culture in Bright Lights, Big City. According to Hendin, the novel represents "the...
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From: Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative[(essay date 1996) In the following excerpt, Gardaphe examines elements of myth and cultural assimilation in The Godfather, contending that it "has done more to create a national consciousness of the Italian American...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)As chair of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a native person himself, Thomas King has more than a passing interest in native issues. His fiction explores what it means to be native in a...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Sarah Winnemucca was born into an important family in the Northern Paiute tribe in about 1844 on the brink of a period of tremendous change for her people. Gold was discovered in California soon after her birth, bringing...
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From: Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction[(essay date 1966) In the following essay, Buchen examines elements of Singer's narrative structure that "meaningfully violate and reconstitute the reader's identity, morality and chronology" to evoke a timeless quality...
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From: International Fiction Review[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Nilsen examines identities that present themselves to Neil Klugman. These range from the immigrant Jewish culture in inner-city Newark to the “crippling conventionalism” of...
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From: College LiteratureIn the early part of the twentieth century, multiperspectivity in fiction was seen as elitist and experimental. Many modernist works—T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), The Sound...
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From: Newsweek[(review date 30 October 1989) In the review below, Clifton describes Sure of You as a dark finale to the Tales series set "in a city now haunted by AIDS."] Armistead Maupin is a jovial fellow, a witty gay writer who...
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From: Chaim Potok[(essay date 1986) In the following excerpt, Abramson provides an overview of the major themes, characters, and narrative presentation in The Chosen.] Jewish and Non-Jewish Worlds The Chosen is set largely within a...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Catapulted into the theatrical limelight at age twenty-two by his Obie Award-winning first play, FOB, David Henry Hwang by age thirty-one had garnered a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for M. Butterfly. Hwang...
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From: Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Aarons notes Roth’s use of humor to comment on the values of American Jews—describing, for example, the Patimkins’ climb from Newark to the suburbs as a latter-day exodus. Food...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Best known as the founder of the Teatro Campesino (Farmworkers Theatre) in 1965, Luis Valdez is a man of many talents: actor, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, stage and film director, and he is the leading...
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From: World Literature TodayAlthough by the 1920s it had begun to flirt with socialism and even communism, Yiddish literature remained provincial and backward. Singer was at a loss to understand why Yiddish had avoided the great adventures inherent...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Spring 1989) In the following essay, Adams analyzes the importance of sound as a signifier of power in Roth's Call It Sleep.] "The squalor and filth, the hopelessness and helplessness of slum life are...
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From: Jewish Social Studies[(essay date July 1966) In the following essay, Pinsker provides reasons that the themes contained in Roth's Call It Sleep were appropriate for rediscovery in the 1960s.] The events which lead to the re-discovery of a...
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From: Theatre History StudiesThe Lisbon Traviata, Terrence McNally's domestic drama about the desolate love lives of four gay men, generated one of the most heated controversies in the New York theatrical press during the 1980s. When the play opened...
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From: MelusHe that applieth himself to the fear of God, And setteth his mind upon the Law of the Most High, He searcheth out the wisdom of all the ancients, And is occupied with the prophets of old. —The Wisdom of Ben Sira The...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Generally the discussion of West Indian fiction tends to focus exclusively on work written in England and the Caribbean. But the growing number of West Indian immigrants in Canada, especially over the last two decades,...
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From: The Comedy that “Hoits”: An Essay on the Fiction of Philip Roth[(essay date 1975) In the following essay, Pinsker gives a critical synopsis of the six stories that comprise Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories. Pinsker contends that Roth’s style is hampered somewhat by...