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From:Tikkun (Vol. 24, Issue 6)Go see Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story . This movie's string of anecdotes, albeit highly selective, dramatically questions whether our political and economic system is working as it should....
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From: The Iron Melancholy: Structures of Spiritual Conversion in America from the Puritan Conscience to Victorian Neurosis[In the following essay, King discusses Weber's struggle with the alienation and moral stringency of Puritanism as evidenced in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.] If my own activity does not belong to...
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From:Tikkun (Vol. 24, Issue 6)When thinking of a new economics, let's not think if stocks, bonds, derivatives, or other financial instruments. Let's think of children. Let's ask what kind of economic policies and practices are good for children....
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From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 88, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFew works have undergone such detailed historical analysis as Eric Williams' Capitalism & Slavery, published almost sixty years ago. (1) This book has elicited both acclaim and criticism, especially over the last three...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date March 2000) In the following essay, Dotan investigates the link between the growth of the gaming industry and the current state of capitalism through an analysis of Auster's The Music of Chance and Jean...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Hacker, an educator and author, reviews The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds, by Ariel Dorfman.] In each successive stage of history, Friedrich Engels wrote,...
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From: The Haliburton Bi-Centenary Chaplet: Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas Raddall Symposium[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Clarke proposes that the writings of Haliburton and the Marquis de Sade have been consigned to obscurity due to their similar offensive views on reform--that liberalism is a...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Man and Superman was the last play Bernard Shaw had to issue in book form to reach a public, while theatrical managements ignored his work. As a result, the text has a chameleon identity. Presented, with long...
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From: The Midwest QuarterlyNow that E. L. Doctorow has published Loon Lake, it is becoming increasingly clear that, taken together, his novels aim to create a panoramic view of American history from the 1880s through the 1960s. While often...
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From: Poetics Today[(essay date autumn 1997) In the following excerpt, Neff analyzes the schizoanalytic implications of The Black Dahlia, examining the novel's representation of emotional devastation, racial paranoia, and familial...
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From: ELH[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Armstrong analyzes the novel within the context of the tumultuous political climate of nineteenth-century America, focusing in particular on the process of territorial...
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From: Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901[In the following essay, Rigsby emphasizes the political significance of Alcott's Work, arguing that the novel reveals Alcott's affiliation with “feminist transcendentalism” through a subversion of “powerful patriarchal...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date winter 1993) In the following essay, Rowe discusses Redburn's handling of the conflict between capitalism and social justice in the Jacksonian period.] Among the many conflicts which characterize American...
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From: New Republic[(review date 24-31 December 1977) In the following unfavorable review of Anti-Oedipus, Cantor asserts that the book lacks concreteness and is "an extraordinary failure."] There is--by definition--no tradition that can...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date Spring 1993) In the following review, Flores summarizes Jameson's concerns in Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.] At the outset we are advised that "it is safest to grasp the...
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From: Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Hinds discusses issues of class and inheritance in Wieland.] Within the unfolding drama of international capitalism, Wieland, or The Transformation: An American Tale appears...
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From: College Literature[(essay date spring 2001) In the following essay, McHugh examines Pynchon's construction of white male identity in Gravity's Rainbow.] You must become your father, but a paler, weaker version of him.(Barthelme 1975,...
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From: Critique[(essay date winter 2001) In the following essay, McGowan perceives World's Fair as distinctive in Doctorow's oeuvre, viewing the major theme of the novel as the loss of entrepreneurial capitalism and the "disappearance...
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From:Drama for StudentsLike all of Shaw's great dramatic creations, Pygmalion is a richly complex play. It combines a central story of the transformation of a young woman with elements of myth, fairy tale, and romance, while also combining an...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThrough much of his career after his first Yoknapatawpha novel, Flags in the Dust (first published as Sartoris in 1929), Faulkner wrote of his fictional county in free-standing episodes that he would later combine into...