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From: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Gelley examines the variety of narrative structures simultaneously at play in Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, noting that the novel defies neat classification in this regard. Gelley...
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From: Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Warner discusses elements of identity, resistance, and spirituality in Jacobs's narrative.] We were rowed ashore, and went boldly through the streets, to my grandmother's. I...
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From: Southern Literary JournalIn the following essay, Doherty examines Jacob's use of the conventions of the sentimental genre and describes the shortcomings of Incidents as a sentimental novel. Rather, he argues that Jacobs “ingeniously inducts...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Winter 1991) In the following essay, Parks applies recent critical theory to a study of the political and historical elements of Doctorow's fiction.] "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy,"...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 162. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (autobiography) 1861; also published as Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed in Slavery, 1861, and The...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.'' The opening sentence of L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, with its wistful cadences and sense of alienation from an earlier self, expresses the view of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Rip Van Winkle" may be the most important short story ever written. Though the text is routinely misread (books seldom reprint the story as Irving wrote it) and though the story's comic tone tends to deflect serious...
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From: Poetry[(review date April 1996) In the following excerpt, Baker offers a favorable assessment of Chickamauga, drawing parallels between the rhetorical sagacity of Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson.] I am not concerned here with...
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date Fall 1995) In the following essay, Bidney traces the influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing in Dickey's Deliverance.] "I like to work my mind, such as it is," said James Dickey to Francis Roberts...
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From: Papers on Language & LiteratureThat Robert Coover's novels, plays, and short fictions are strangely unsettling, both for the reader and the critic, is certain. His inconclusive plots and open-ended endings extend well beyond Hawthorne's “device of...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Allan Gurganus is an old-fashioned storyteller. The stories he tells are multi-layered and contain strong, varied voices. While both his novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, and his short story collection,...
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From: Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Dietrich argues that by being allowed to write her story, Rowlandson moved beyond the traditional Puritan expectations for women and that the experience changed her into a...
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From: The Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, and a Lecture Delivered Before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, 1847[(essay date 1969) In the following introduction, Gara presents an overview of Brown's life and explains that many elements of his philosophy can be found in modern Black Nationalism.] "It is a terrible picture of...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The publication of The World According to Garp was an important event in contemporary American literature. For John Irving himself, of course, the novel's reception must have been extremely gratifying: the book neatly...
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From: Legacy[(essay date January 2002) In the following essay, Gaul explores Spofford's portrayal of motherhood, underscoring the role of birth imagery in "Circumstance."] Harriet Prescott Spofford's short story "Circumstance"...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Juan Rulfo is a leading candidate both for the title of Latin America's greatest writer of prose fiction and for that of the author of the slimmest body of published work. His accomplishment, quite simply, is to have...
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From: Poetry[(essay date March 1981) In the following excerpt, Smith analyzes The Zodiac and The Strength of Fields, concluding that the latter is the more successful of the two.] The Zodiac is a poem about fear and estrangement...
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From: Literary Griot[(essay date spring-fall 2002) In the following essay, Wardrop examines issues of miscegenation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, discussing the ways that intimate relationships between slaves and slaveholders...
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From:Novels for Students[Donna Woodford is a doctoral candidate at Washington University and has written for a wide variety of academic journals and educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses how the dream motif in The Women...
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From: African American Review[(essay date fall 2004) In the following essay, Steinberg analyzes Butler's use of postmodern literary techniques in Kindred "to critique the notion that historical and psychological slavery can be overcome."] Beyond...