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VandeZande, Zach. "(Some More) American Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801908/.

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This short story collection consists of twenty short fictions and a novella. A preface precedes the collection addressing issues of craft, pedagogy, and the post Program Era literary landscape, with particular attention paid to the need for empathy as an active guiding principle in the writing of fiction.

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Metherd, Mary Swift. "Within two worlds : a case for intra-American literature /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Harrington, Paula Claire. "American dog : figuring the canine in American literature /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Chetty, Raj G. "Versions of America : reading American literature for identity and difference /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1528.pdf.

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Taylor, Alan Creston. "Paper nation: American literature and the surveying of North America." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12649.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>This dissertation studies the largely unexamined role of land surveying in the emergence and growth of the United States and its literature. In the Introduction I argue that surveying was an indispensable techn

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van, Loenen Eva. "Hasidic Judaism in American literature." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/396728/.

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This thesis brings together literary texts that portray Hasidic Judaism in Jewish-American literature, predominantly of the 20th and 21st centuries. Although other scholars may have studied Rabbi Nachman, I.B. Singer, Chaim Potok and Pearl Abraham individually, no one has combined their works and examined the depiction of Hasidism through the codes and conventions of different literary genres. Additionally, my research on Judy Brown and Frieda Vizel raises urgent questions about the gendered foundations of Hasidism that are largely elided in the earlier texts. The thesis demonstrates how each

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Farnum, O'Leary Christine J. "Motherhood portrayals in American literature /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Sougstad, Timothy J. "Iconoclastic tradition in American literature /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3036857.

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Taylor, Corey Michael. "Ambiguous sounds African American music in modernist American literature /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 253 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654487481&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gregg, Catherine Jane. "American aphorism : a genealogy of anti-foundational American literature." Thesis, University of Canterbury. American Studies, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5588.

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This study identifies a strain of American literature that resists integration into a progressive construction of the American mythos. The texts admitted under this lineage display a set of rhetorical strategies and paradigmatic concerns that are inherently aphoristic. Aphorism is the trope of the fragment. It breaks away from its context and slips out of time. At the same time, however, due to its radical logic, it also draws attention to its own construction and to the conditions that surround it. The literary texts studied here operate in this fashion and, in their extreme disruption of th

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Davis, Randall Craig. "Firewater Myths : alcohol and portrayals of Native Americans in American literature /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487687959968421.

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Vollaro, Daniel R. "Origins and orthodoxy anthologies of American literature and American history /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08272008-210438/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Janet Gabler-Hover, committee chair; Robert Sattelmeyer, Calvin Thomas, committee members. Electronic text (205 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 18, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-205).

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Rossi, Daniel. "Uma reapresentação de Henry Miller : do período francês à virada mística (1930-1940) /." Araraquara, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/138269.

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Orientador: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro<br>Banca: Maria das Graças Gomes Villa da Silva<br>Banca: Maria Lúcia Outeiro Fernandes<br>Banca: Ramiro Giroldo<br>Banca: Neil Besner<br>Resumo: Esta tese aborda o período francês da produção literária de Henry Miller, que se estende de sua chegada à Paris em 1930 até seu retorno aos Estados Unidos em 1940, de forma a reapresentar as quatro principais obras deste período: Trópico de Câncer (1934), Primavera negra (1936) e Trópico de Capricórnio (1939), que nomeamos trilogia francesa, e o volume de cartas entre Henry Miller e Michael Fraenkel intitulado Ham

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Griffin, Jared Andrew. "American apocalypse race and revelation in American literature, 1919-1939 /." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-03162010-093322/unrestricted/Griffin.pdf.

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Risley, Kristin Ann. "Vikings of the midwest : place, culture, and ethnicity in Norwegian-American literature, 1870-1940 /." Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1056041378.

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Kopec, Andrew. "Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365760287.

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Shaiman, Jennifer M. "Building American homes, constructing American identities : performance of identity, domestic space, and modern American literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147835.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-272). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Lancman, Thaís Kuperman. "A lente judaica de Saul Bellow em Herzog." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8158/tde-14032017-161706/.

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Esta pesquisa de mestrado tem como o objetivo analisar os aspectos judaicos do romance Herzog, de Saul Bellow (1915-2005), buscando compreender a função de tais elementos na obra. Por elementos judaicos, entende-se não apenas a citação de elementos religiosos, históricos, costumes e personagens judeus como a presença de um pensamento embasado na tradução judaica. Parte-se da hipótese de que, não sendo um romance centrado na discussão do judaísmo em si, Herzog tem o judaísmo como uma lente através da qual Moses, protagonista do romance, enxerga o mundo e o analisa. O ponto de partida para a aná

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Ngo, Lập Tu McLaughlin Robert L. "Literature as allusion processing and teaching Vietnam-American war literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225141141&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177941823&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on April 30, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Robert L. McLaughlin (chair), Ronald Strickland, Aaron Smith. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-207) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Vollaro, Daniel Richard. "Origins and Orthodoxy: Anthologies of American Literature and American History." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/36.

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This dissertation examines how the new “multicultural phase” anthologies of American literature treat American history. Anthologies of American literature are more historical, more diverse, and more multidisciplinary than ever before, but they have over-extended themselves in both their historical and representational reach. They are not, despite their diversity and historicism, effective vehicles for promoting critical discussions of American history in the classroom. Chapter One outlines a brief history of anthologies of American literature, while also introducing the terminology and method

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Neudecker, Claudia. "Implanting foreignness : the literary construction of Korean/American realities /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015434497&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Want, Stephen. "Paranoia in American literature and culture." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1995. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/paranoia-in-american-literature-and-culture(f11f6186-8a7e-4a4c-bd7e-56cead892ad1).html.

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Brogan, Martha L., and Daphnée Rentfrow. "A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature." Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105174.

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Daphnée Rentfrow assisted in writing and editing the report. This 176 page report is also available from purchase for $30 from CLIR or the DLF. It is freely available in html or pdf formats from their web sites. It is archived with the permission of the CLIR and DLF who hold copyright.<br>This report will be useful to anyone interested in the current state of online American literature resources. Its purpose is twofold: to offer a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature; and to identify the prevailing concerns of spe

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Hay, Jody L. "Native American women in children's literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291972.

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This thesis focuses on the roles of Native women in children's literature. The study explores the works of five Native women writers in the United States that have successfully published adult literature and at least one children's book since 1990. The purpose of the research is to gain a better understanding of what these writers reveal about the roles of Native women in their literature for children. The data was collected using content analysis on the books and a questionnaire to determine (1) what roles the Native writers convey in their children's literature; and (2) what these women are

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DeBrava, Valerie Ann. "Authorship and individualism in American literature." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623972.

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A look at the genre of American literary history, as well as at the careers of four nineteenth-century writers, this neo-Marxist study treats the lives and works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth and Richard Stoddard through the productive circumstances of their writing, and through our expectations as consumers of their personalities and texts. Typically, Whitman and Dickinson are recognized as creative individualists who defied the literary and social conventions of their time, while the Stoddards---when they are recognized at all---are remembered in less daring terms. Many cri

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Tyson, Lois. "The commodification of the American dream : capitalist subjectivity in American literature /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487670346877265.

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Moore, David L. "Native knowing : the politics of epistemology in American and Native American literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9376.

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Dalsgaard, Inger Hunnerup. "The fabrication of America : myths of technology in American literature and culture." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327046.

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Greenberg, Linda Margarita. "Acts of genre literary form and bodily injury in contemporary Chicana and Asian American women's literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1723112451&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cutler, John Alba. "Pochos, vatos, and other types of assimilation masculinities in Chicano literature, 1940-2004 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1680034831&sid=34&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Weikle-Mills, Courtney. "The child reader and American literature, 1700-1852." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181758570.

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Tyson, Lois Marie. "The commodification of the American dream : capitalist subjectivity in American literature." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1294937169.

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Alharbi, Afras Khalid. "Naturalism in American Literature: Tracing American Naturalism Through Word and Image." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1574432977434362.

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Suzuki-Martinez, Sharon S. 1963. "Tribal Selves: Subversive Identity in Asian American and Native American Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/565575.

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Albrizio, Eileen M. "Wearing costumes and crossing borders : search for self in Chicano/a literature /." Abstract, 2008. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000551/01/1995Abstract.htm.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008.<br>Thesis advisor: Katherine Sugg. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-116). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.

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Horton, Ray. "American Literature's Secular Faith." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491331157721026.

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Herro, Niven. "Arab American Literature and the Ethnic American Landscape: Language, Identity, and Community." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin153563377189775.

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Davis, Sara Elizabeth. "Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/407544.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature is a study of the dynamics of pleasure in literary scenes of food, eating, and hungering in American poetry and novels from the early 20th century to the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early twentieth century to present-day preoccupations with overdetermined foods and bodies, food scenes in literature help develop character, play out cultural or social dynamics, or dramatize appetite and desire. In many instances, pleasure (or its absence) is what gives such scenes weig

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Liu, Yi-chen Mathis Janelle Brown. "Identity issues in Asian-American children's and adolescent literature (1999-2007)." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12155.

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Shere, Jeremy. "Jewish American canons assimilation, identity, and the invention of postwar Jewish American literature /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204536.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0188. Adviser: Alvin Rosenfeld. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 11, 2006)."

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Osborne, Stephen D. "Indian-hating in American literature, 1682-1857 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9484.

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Craford, Mary Elizabeth. "Inventory of modern American cello-keyboard literature /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1994. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11847815.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1994.<br>Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Harold F. Abeles. Dissertation Committee: Lenore M. Pogonowski. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-104).

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Kirk-Clausen, Veronica. "Translation and transnationalism in American regional literature /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Blake, L. "The American city in literature 1820-1930." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596709.

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American urban writing of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is characterized by a range of discursive, thematic and ideological conflicts. These generate a literature of the city which is often paradoxical, ambiguous or aporetic. Across a wide range of texts, written in different periods and in different generic forms, the American city is thus seen to resist the philosophical or narratological ordering principles employed to loan coherence and cogency to the urban spectacle. Such a resistance functions, this thesis contests, as an articulation and interrogation of the crises of ind

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Tracey, Thomas. "David Foster Wallace : American literature after postmodernism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543596.

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Ireson-Howells, Tristan. "Redemptive failure in contemporary American sports literature." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2018. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/17597/.

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This thesis explores America’s fascination with its own sports as purveyors of national identity. American literature has found unique inspiration in sporting competition, not only depicting professional athletes, but drawing from the experiences of fans and amateurs. While the athlete’s heroism and eventual fall has been analysed in previous discussions of this topic, my route of inquiry positions decline and defeat as more central and complex concepts. The focus of this thesis is on the remarkably diverse ways in which contemporary writers reimagine aspects of sporting failure both for their

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Montt, Strabucchi Maria. "Imagining China in contemporary Latin American literature." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/imagining-china-in-contemporary-latin-american-literature(39f1026f-5a85-4bd5-b9ac-db55a80d2e14).html.

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Since the late 1980s, there has been a steady production of Latin American narrative fiction in Spanish concerning China and the Chinese. Despite the work written about China and its relation to Latin America, no comprehensive examination of the representation of China in literature has been produced thus far. This thesis analyses nine novels in which China is the main theme, exploring how China has been represented in Latin American narrative fiction in recent decades. Using 'China' as a multidimensional term informed by Sara Ahmed's understanding of 'strangerness' (2000), this thesis first e

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Sugden, Edward. "American literature and global time, 1812-59." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c1a68fe-2e17-48bd-851b-00133ca256f0.

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American Literature and Global Time, 1812-59 explores the effects of the early stages of globalization on time consciousness in antebellum American literature and non-fiction. It argues that oceanic trade, extracontinental imperialism, immigration, and Pacific exploration all affected how antebellum Americans configured their national pasts, presents, and futures. The ensuing pluralisation of time that followed disallowed cogent conceptions of national identity. It analyses transnational geographies to examine how they transmit heterogeneous times. The project’s interest is in U.S. national si

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Parker, Michael G. "Queer Orientation in Twentieth-Century American Literature." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1466182474.

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Daw, Sarah Harriet. "Writing ecology in Cold War American literature." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19367.

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This thesis examines the function and presentation of “Nature” in American literature written between 1945 and 1971. It argues that the widespread presence of ecological representations of “Nature” within Cold War literature has been critically overlooked, as a result of Cold War literary criticism’s comparatively narrow concentration on the direct effects of political and ideological metanarratives on texts. It uncovers a plethora of ecological portrayals of the relationship between the human and the environment, and reveals the significance of the role played by non-Western and non-Anglocent

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