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Beylier, Pierre-Alexandre. "Cross-border Life in an American Exclave: Point Roberts and the Canada–US Border." Borders in Globalization Review 2, no. 2 (2021): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/bigr22202119617.

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By applying a theoretical framework based on different models proposed in border studies literature, this article analyzes the morphological, functional, institutional and identity characteristics that make Point Roberts—an American exclave in the Pacific Northwest—a “cross-border town”. Using an online survey and face-to-face interviews, the author combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to examine the forces that link Point Roberts and the Canadian city of Delta that lies across the Canada–US border. This paper highlights the specificities of this unique geograph
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P, Jushaini. "Exploring the Facts and Fantasies in Neal Town Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 3 (2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i3.10479.

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Literature enables people to think out of the box and connect with new ideas. At the same time, it takes us back and helps us know more about the life led by our ancestors. As a great foundation of life, literature fosters the overall development of the people and the society through inspiring stories, motivating tales and futuristic writings. We live in a world of technological advancements and Science Fiction stories are the profound ways to introduce extrapolation and speculation in literature. Built on a strong foundation of realistic concepts, sci-fi stories develop a futuristic world of
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Alsaedi, Shaima Muzher Abid Alreda. "Dystopian Reality in Frankenstein in Baghdad a novel by Ahmed Saadawi." Al-Adab Journal, no. 133 (June 15, 2020): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v0i133.606.

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Dystopian literature is important in old and modern literature. It depicts a world in which everything is imperfect, chaotic and distorted. It shows a nightmarish image yet it is true in some afflicted communities. It mainly deals with war, oppression and disastrous situations. Almost all the characteristics of dystopian literature are real in Ahmed Saadawi’s novel Frankenstein in Baghdad. These characteristics are real and tangible in the place where the events of the novel occurred. These characteristics are manifested in people’s fear from the government, the American troops and terrorism a
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György, Horváth. "Adalékok Kondor Béla sors-történetéhez." Művészettörténeti Értesítő 69, no. 2 (2021): 171–256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/080.2020.00011.

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In the course of my research in archives – in search of documents about the history of the Art Foundation of the People’s Republic (from 1968 Art Fund) – while leafing through the sea of files in the National Archives of Hungary (MNL OL) year after year, I came across so-far unknown documents on the life and fate of Béla Kondor which had been overlooked by the special literature so far.Some reflected the character of the period from summer of 1956 to spring 1957, more precisely to the opening of the Spring Exhibition. In that spring, after relieving Rákosi of his office, the HWP (Hungarian Wor
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Franks, Rachel. "Cooking in the Books: Cookbooks and Cookery in Popular Fiction." M/C Journal 16, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.614.

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Introduction Food has always been an essential component of daily life. Today, thinking about food is a much more complicated pursuit than planning the next meal, with food studies scholars devoting their efforts to researching “anything pertaining to food and eating, from how food is grown to when and how it is eaten, to who eats it and with whom, and the nutritional quality” (Duran and MacDonald 234). This is in addition to the work undertaken by an increasingly wide variety of popular culture researchers who explore all aspects of food (Risson and Brien 3): including food advertising, food
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Mudie, Ella. "Unbuilding the City: Writing Demolition." M/C Journal 20, no. 2 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1219.

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IntroductionUtopian and forward looking in tenor, official narratives of urban renewal and development implicitly promote normative ideals of progress and necessary civic improvement. Yet an underlying condition of such renewal is frequently the very opposite of building: the demolition of existing urban fabric. Taking as its starting point the large-scale demolition of buildings proposed for the NSW Government’s Sydney Metro rail project, this article interrogates the role of literary treatments of demolition in mediating complex, and often contradictory, responses to transformations of the b
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Gibson, Chris. "On the Overland Trail: Sheet Music, Masculinity and Travelling ‘Country’." M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.82.

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Introduction One of the ways in which ‘country’ is made to work discursively is in ‘country music’ – defining a genre and sensibility in music production, marketing and consumption. This article seeks to excavate one small niche in the historical geography of country music to explore exactly how discursive antecedents emerged, and crucially, how images associated with ‘country’ surfaced and travelled internationally via one of the new ‘global’ media of the first half of the twentieth century – sheet music. My central arguments are twofold: first, that alongside aural qualities and lyrical cont
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Rogers, Ian Keith. "Without a True North: Tactical Approaches to Self-Published Fiction." M/C Journal 20, no. 6 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1320.

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IntroductionOver three days in November 2017, 400 people gathered for a conference at the Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada. The majority of attendees were fiction authors but the conference program looked like no ordinary writer’s festival; there were no in-conversation interviews with celebrity authors, no panels on the politics of the book industry and no books launched or promoted. Instead, this was a gathering called 20Books2017, a self-publishing conference about the business of fiction ebooks and there was expertise in the room.Among those attending, 50 reportedly
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Shiloh, Ilana. "A Vision of Complex Symmetry." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2674.

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 The labyrinth is probably the most universal trope of complexity. Deriving from pre-Greek labyrinthos, a word denoting “maze, large building with intricate underground passages”, and possibly related to Lydian labrys, which signifies “double-edged axe,” symbol of royal power, the notion of the labyrinth primarily evokes the Minoan Palace in Crete and the myth of the Minotaur. According to this myth, the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, was born to Pesiphae, king Minos’s wife, who mated with a bull when the king of Crete was besieging Athen
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Marshall, Kyle. "The Carnival at Bray by J. A. Foley." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 5, no. 2 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g22p52.

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Foley, Jessie Ann. The Carnival at Bray. Ashford, CT: Elephant Rock Books, 2014. Print.Amidst the grunge scene of 1993 Chicago, 16 year-old Maggie Lynch moves with her family to Ireland to live with her mother’s newest romantic partner. This transition from the relative anonymity of big-city life to a small town on the Irish Sea presents some adjustment issues for Maggie. The weather, scenery and accents all differ from back home, but most of all she misses her beloved Uncle Kevin, with his rock star ambitions and habit of quoting famous literature. Eventually, Maggie finds a small circle of f
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American American fiction City and town life in literature"

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Klimasmith, Elizabeth. "At home in the city : networked space and urban domesticity in American literature, 1850-1920 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9372.

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Kreutzer, Eberhard. "New York in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Erzählliteratur." Heidelberg : Winter, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/14520024.html.

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Erickson, Paul Joseph Goetzmann William H. "Welcome to Sodom : the cultural work of city-mysteries fiction in antebellum America /." 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3174440.

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Erickson, Paul Joseph. "Welcome to Sodom: the cultural work of city-mysteries fiction in antebellum America." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1543.

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Joiner, Monica Michelle. "The city as a point of transition in the lives of Esmeralda Santiago and Judith Ortiz Cofer." 2004. http://etd.louisville.edu/data/UofL0046t2004.pdf.

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Books on the topic "American American fiction City and town life in literature"

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Imagining Los Angeles: A city in fiction. University of Nevada Press, 2004.

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Imagining Los Angeles: A city in fiction. University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

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Ralph, Willett. The naked city: Urban crime fiction in the USA. Manchester University Press, 1996.

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The New York vision: Interpretations of New York City in the American novel. University Press of America, 1987.

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Fragmented urban images: The American city in modern fiction from Stephen Crane to Thomas Pynchon. P. Lang, 1991.

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At home in the city: Urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930. University Press of New England, 2005.

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Rural fictions, urban realities: A geography of Gilded Age American literature. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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The urban sublime in American literary naturalism. University of Illinois Press, 1998.

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James, Annesley. Blank fictions: Consumerism, culture, and the contemporary American novel. Pluto Press, 1998.

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James, Annesley. Blank fictions: Consumerism, culture, and the contemporary American novel. St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "American American fiction City and town life in literature"

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Evelev, John. "The City Sketch." In Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894557.003.0003.

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Although the picturesque sketch genre is primarily associated with rural subjects, it was also applied to city life during the mid-nineteenth century, when urban populations were undergoing unprecedented growth. Chapter 2 argues that the newly popular picturesque city sketch helped the emergent middle class to establish its identity as it attained a distinctive position between the wealthy and the working classes. Walking the streets, the middle-class picturesque city sketcher turned the class-divided city into picturesque tableaux that were far less antagonistic to city life than the sensationalist characterizations that were central to the dominant mode of city writing in midcentury. The chapter examines city sketches and fiction derived from the genre, written by Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Maria Child, George “Gaslight” Foster, Margaret Fuller, Cornelius Mathews, and others. Although city sketchers helped articulate a middle-class identity, the picturesque at times tended to give way to a sublime mode in which the city crowd threatened to absorb the middle class into its undifferentiated mass.
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Johnson, Charles S. "From “These ‘Colored United States,’ VIII—Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob,” The Messenger 5 (December 1923)." In Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043055.003.0015.

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Editors’ Note: In our second literary selection—excerpts from Charles S. Johnson’s 1923 essay “Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob”—the famed sociologist renders a broad-stroke account of consolidation and growth of the Black Metropolis. This essay, like many pieces of historical, sociological, and journalistic writing emanating from Chicago contributed to a literature of fact that was characteristic of early African American literary work in the city. While Johnson’s assertions about the paucity of black intellectual and cultural life are challenged throughout the current volume, equally important to note is the stylistic strategy with which he presents his analysis of “this Colored Chicago—the dream city—city of the dreadful night!” His elegant, high-keyed prose employs metaphor and other literary devices and arrays facts with novelistic selectivity and pacing. In this manner, Johnson’s essay looks ahead to a mutually beneficial interpenetration of fiction and sociological writing that would mark many of the most notable works of the Black Chicago Renaissance....
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Walker, Nathaniel Robert. "The Republic of the Future." In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861447.003.0006.

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The United States produced a number of early utopian visions of suburban dispersal, demonstrating that Americans had inherited some of the anti-urban tendencies of their British forebears. An early feminist science-fiction novel by Mary Griffith insisted that cities could be great, but she was decidedly in the minority. After consuming British science fiction in the 1870s, American authors dominated utopian literature in the 1880s, many providing it with new urgency by engaging head-on with the rise of the industrial corporation. These writers were a heterogeneous bunch—ranging from math teachers to Spiritualist bohemians—but while they were often politically opposed to one another, they were consistent in their concept of utopia: life in large, complex cities such as New York or Boston was maddening, and a new world of glass, metal, synthetic stone, whirring machines, and, most importantly, endless greenery, needed to rise in place of the terrible city.
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