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From: American Indian Quarterly[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Smith explores the role of Coyote as a postmodern trickster in Green Grass, Running Water.] [T]rickster stories point to the way ordinary, conventional reality is an...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 2000-2001) In the following excerpt, Fong praises Rouge of the North as "a psychological tale," asserting that the "real story" Chang presents is the "psychic degeneration" of Yindi, the novel's...
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From: Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hess analyzes the labyrinthine narrative structure of the Ramcaritmanas, which she explains is defined by four major narrative frames that take the form of conversations.]...
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From: Modernism/Modernity[(essay date April 2006) In the following essay, Trotter investigates Eliot's impressions of early-twentieth-century cinema and discusses how these attitudes helped shape the poet's depictions of humankind's...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Hall discusses the three varieties of consciousness he sees represented in Morris's work.] Wright Morris's forty-year career as a novelist has been haunted by the loss of a...
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From: Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Bellin analyzes Bartram's view of native Americans and their use of land compared to the European settlers.] I On June 1, 1773, William Bartram witnessed the Treaty of...
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From: Shenandoah[(review date winter 2000) In the following review, Kennedy offers a positive assessment of Turtle, Swan & Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, a jointly republished volume of Doty's first two poetry books, arguing that the...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date fall 1996) In the following essay, Cahalan discusses how Abbey's Eastern roots--including his experiences in Appalachia--contributed to his identity as a Western writer.] Edward Abbey is part of a long...
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date summer 2004) In the following essay, Herring suggests that Paul's transient lifestyle in "Paul's Case" is that which distances him from classifiable notions of community, identity, and sexuality.] Put on...
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From: Shakespeare's Imitations[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Taylor traces the mimetic relationship between characters, incidents, and words in The Tempest, noting how each instance of imitation shapes the drama's thematic structure. The...
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From: Exemplaria[(essay date March 1993) In the following essay, Cox explores the sexual connotations of the term "glossing," highlights the double entendres in The Wife of Bath's Prologue, and investigates the link between sexual...
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From: (In)Fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: (In)fusionising a Few Indian English Novels, Edited by Ranjan Ghosh[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Muller uses the example of Hari's maturation in The Village by the Sea to illustrate the validity of a "postpositivist" approach to textual interpretation.] There is a growing...
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From: Antiquity and Humanity: Essays on Ancient Religion and Philosophy; Presented to Hans Dieter Betz on His 70th Birthday[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Mitchell addresses critical debates regarding Chrysostom’s response to Paul’s rhetoric in Galatians. Mitchell finds that rather than undermining the New Testament scholar Hans...
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From: Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Ingham investigates Caxton’s role in the creation of a corporate English identity and the consolidation of state power at the turn of the sixteenth century. Ingham explores a...
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From: Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory[(essay date 2003) In the essay below, Schweninger and Cilano address the ambiguity surrounding concepts of nation and national identity in Native American writings.] A focus on issues of "nation" that are prominent...
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From: Romantic Circles: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Taylor reviews Hemans’s letters to her publisher, John Murray, to discuss the meaning and public positioning of The Sceptic. She notes that the poem, which takes part in the...
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From: Confluencia[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Garza discusses humor in Loving Pedro Infante, situating it in relation to the female body, the strategic use of code-switching, and unequal relationships between the female and...
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From: American Indian Quarterly[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Van de Logt explores the figure of the “monstrous whirlwind” in Arikara Indian folklore, contending that it represents “a series of epidemics among the Arikaras in the...
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From: Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, originally presented at a conference in March 2006, Myers uses A Journal of the Plague Year to investigate “the interrelation of knowledge and action during the...
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From: Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000[(essay date 2010) In the following interviews, conducted separately with Baillie, Strand, Menefee, and Callenbach during 1999-2005, Callenbach recollects his role in supporting Baillie and Strand in the early days of...