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N. A. Dhivya. "FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM." WORLD WOMEN STUDIES JOURNAL 1, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/wwsj.v1i1.1.
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Feminist literary criticism arose thirty years ago, and became widespread in Western Europe and the United States. Today, there is practically no large American university where there would be no courses on female / feminist literature and criticism, as well as gender aspects of literary work. In this study the general concept of criticism over literature by feminism outlined.
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Lokteva, Nadejda. "“FAMILY CHRONICLE” IN ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM." American Journal Of Philological Sciences 02, no. 06 (June 1, 2022): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ajps/volume02issue06-01.
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The article explores the meaning of the genre of literature ‘family saga’ in modern American literary criticism. The general meaning of ‘Family saga’ gives us a definition that this genre chronicles represent the way of life and traditions of a family or several related or interconnected families over some time. The article aims to present traditions that are emerging, evolving, and how they are handed on over time. ‘Family saga’ gives us glimpses beyond the daily struggles of life in ways that resonate with our deepest connections to our own families. The article has an analytical and historical approach to the study of these novels. The scientific novelty of the research work lies in the aspects forming family values of American families who lived in the period under review are compared, as every literary family has its secrets and stories that can be difficult and heartrending. The article examines the question posed in world literary studies about the genre of family chronicle, the peculiarities of its principles in general, and individual families in particular. The study reveals a peculiar form of a story about the life of a particular society.
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Traesar, Livia, Danika Rahma Irianti, and Ferry Hidayat. "Women and Planters during American Revolution War as Narrated in Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer (1782)." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 9, no. 2 (November 1, 2022): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v9i2.73609.
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The paper attempts to discover a historical fact of American women’s educational achievement and self-image as well as to unravel a psychological fact of American planters’ existential crisis in the historical period of Revolution War by means of information reported by Jean Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735-1813) in his famous Letters from an American Farmer (1782). To make the attempt successful, two literary criticisms are done by the writers of this paper, namely feminist criticism and existentialist criticism. The feminist criticism is carried out to dig up data out of the Letters and analyze it through feminist lens, while the existentialist criticism is performed to unearth signs of existential crisis experienced by the Southern planters during the Independence War of America. After scrutinizing the Letters, it is found that Southern women during the war of independence are well-educated but have a low self-image and that Southern planters suffer anguish and despair of woeful political revolution which shutter their existential equilibrium.
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Du Plessis, J. W., and D. H. Steenberg. "Uit die oogpunt van ’n vrou? Perspektief op feministiese literêre kritiek in die kader van die Airikaanse prosa." Literator 12, no. 3 (May 6, 1991): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v12i3.781.
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Feminists feel that in literary criticism not enough consideration is given to feminism as an ideology in the production of texts. According to them, existing literary criticism is strongly man-centred. This is especially true of the practice of South African literary criticism. Although feminism does not have at its disposal a formulated feminist literary criticism, a great deal of research has been done in this direction abroad. This is especially the case in Europe and America. Feminist literary critics apply themselves to the representation of the woman in works by male authors and an analysis of feminine experience in the production of texts by women. This article is an exploration of the Anglo-American and French approaches in feminist literary criticism. An attempt is made to formulate the aims of a possible South African feminist literary criticism in order that not only the general norms, but also the feminist codes in the production of a text, speak towards the final interpretation of a work.
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Wang, Yunning. "Film Literary Criticism and Image Aesthetics: Around Film Criticism." SHS Web of Conferences 167 (2023): 01014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202316701014.
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Film criticism has been carried out in the form of activities since its inception, in which many outstanding intellectuals and artists have participated.Especially in this respect, European intellectuals can contrast with American intellectuals, who have long held films in contempt. “In Europe, intellectuals have been fascinated by filmmaking since the beginning of their media,” writes Tim Bewart and Thomas Szobak.It is not surprising, therefore, that in the 1920s, throughout Europe, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, a group of intellectuals dedicated to all corners of the art and other artists on the same basis as art, came together to discuss and write about film. “Unlike the U.S., where movies were excluded from intellectual reflection until the late 1950s, film criticism was a battleground for intellectuals in France.
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Oyarzún, Kemy. "Latin American Literary Criticism: Myth, History, Ideology." Latin American Research Review 23, no. 2 (1988): 258–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002387910002238x.
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Mariani, Giorgio. "A View from the Heart of Europe." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab093.
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Abstract There are at least three ways of understanding “criticism”: 1) as literary scholarship; 2) as teaching; 3) as a way of engaging the general reading public regarding the significance of literary and cultural matters. Every country has developed its own traditions in each of these three areas. This brief essay focuses on the Italian case, arguing that teachers of American literature need to make the most of their role as cultural mediators and translators, as in the formative years of Italian American Studies. The influence of the corporate model on the Italian public university, along with other factors, has made relations between literary scholars’ and the nonacademic public sphere tenuous. Unless the democratic political ethos that presided over the birth of the discipline is rediscovered, the future for Italian “American literary criticism”—in all the three articulations mentioned above—will be rather bleak.
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Rosman, Silvia N. "Recent Publications in Latin American Literary and Cultural Criticism." Latin American Research Review 32, no. 1 (1997): 256–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100037778.
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Caminada Rossetti, Lucía. "Argentine Literature as Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues." Interlitteraria 25, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 359–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2020.25.2.8.
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The article will suggest that the texts and ways of reaching some materials and perspectives in Argentina, remains at a national level. It is important to notice that in order to read criticism and theory regarding Latin American literature, Spanish from Río de la Plata separates at some point the fields. In that regard, one of the greatest assets and achievements of Argentinian literary research concerns the relationship between politics and fiction. In connection with this it might be asked how we can think of Argentinian literature without linking it to the social discourse? How can we think of the comparative field of Latin-American and Argentinian literature as one academic area of studies? In our view, comparatism seems to be one of the loneliest areas of studies in terms of the fields of theory, fiction and criticism. We thus suggest that in Argentina, literary research and criticism in general are strictly concerned with only one option: the national culture. Thus, exclusively, western theoretical frames are chosen to read literature and comparative perspectives are mostly applied to European studies. That is why I insist on the fact that comparative literary research is not represented institutionally at all.
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Caminada Rossetti, Lucía. "Argentine Literature as Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues." Interlitteraria 25, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 359–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2020.25.2.8.
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The article will suggest that the texts and ways of reaching some materials and perspectives in Argentina, remains at a national level. It is important to notice that in order to read criticism and theory regarding Latin American literature, Spanish from Río de la Plata separates at some point the fields. In that regard, one of the greatest assets and achievements of Argentinian literary research concerns the relationship between politics and fiction. In connection with this it might be asked how we can think of Argentinian literature without linking it to the social discourse? How can we think of the comparative field of Latin-American and Argentinian literature as one academic area of studies? In our view, comparatism seems to be one of the loneliest areas of studies in terms of the fields of theory, fiction and criticism. We thus suggest that in Argentina, literary research and criticism in general are strictly concerned with only one option: the national culture. Thus, exclusively, western theoretical frames are chosen to read literature and comparative perspectives are mostly applied to European studies. That is why I insist on the fact that comparative literary research is not represented institutionally at all.
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GARCIA, JAY. "Richard Wright and the Americanism of Lawd Today!" Journal of American Studies 49, no. 3 (November 7, 2014): 505–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875814001832.
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This essay examines Lawd Today!, Richard Wright's posthumously published novel, written in the 1930s but only made available to readers in 1963. Concentrating on the epigraphs that punctuate the novel, the essay demonstrates the significance of the social criticism of the 1910s and 1920s to Wright's formation as literary artist. In particular, Wright was drawn to the writings of the Young American critics, including Van Wyck Brooks and Waldo Frank, whose criticisms of national ideologies furthered a commitment to “Americanism” as a horizon of social and cultural renewal. Wright's intellectual immersion in early twentieth-century US social criticism gave Lawd Today! a Young American critical imprint. Drawing upon the work of Ernesto Laclau on “populism,” the essay reads Wright's novel as invested in an “Americanism” that seeks to describe common features of early twentieth-century black migrant experience in the urban North in terms of larger national and modern dynamics.
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Zharkova, Roksolana. "Жіноче письмо, авторка, героїня в українському літературознавстві часів незалежності." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 13, no. 2 (January 8, 2023): 249–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.8462.
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The article is devoted to an analysis of women's writing in the literary theory and criticism of independent Ukraine. A general overview of the formation of feminist critique and gender approach in Ukrainian literary criticism is made based on the principles of American and French literary schools. Researchers’ concepts concerning the features of women’s writing, themes, stylistics and poetics of texts created by women are analyzed. The achievements of Ukrainian scholars in the study of women's literature, in particular, the works of modernist and postmodernist women authors, are shown. The leading research themes of the period of Independence are determined, namely: representation and reception of a woman author, features of a text written by a woman, types of heroines in modern Ukrainian women’s prose.
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Murwantono, Didik. "A Study of the Individualism Accounts on American Literature through Reader Response Criticism." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 9, no. 2 (November 1, 2022): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v9i2.78146.
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This study is by no means a comprehensive account of individualism or more accurately, individualism, in America. It is intended to be more suggestive than comprehensive though it is characterized by more summery than controversy. Many ideas as well as some of the highlights of American manifestations of individualism and modes of individualistic thought and philosophy have been added. What follows, then, is merely a look at some of the high-water marks of literary American individualism and an attempt to offer some cursory explanations for this American phenomenon in theory and practice. This study was under an exploratory qualitative method supported by an interdisciplinary approach of American Studies. Reader-Response criticism is used to make perspective and interpretation without a doubt. The sample was 28 students taking the American Society and literature course at the Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang. The completion of this research shows the students have creativity and freedom to express their innovation in learning American literature. The cornerstone of individual conscience has to be their credos for changing into a better life through the social, political, economic, and moral autonomy of each individual.
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Lye, Colleen. "Racial Form." Representations 104, no. 1 (2008): 92–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2008.104.1.92.
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This essay takes account of the formalist desires of recent Asian American literary criticism. It argues that a focus on form may discover firmer ground for the future of Asian American studies, but only if that focus remains cognizant of the interdisciplinary origins of Asian American studies.
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Mishina, L. A. "THE FAMILY PHENOMENON IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERAURE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 32, no. 2 (April 29, 2022): 355–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2022-32-2-355-362.
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The purpose of this article is to analyze the phenomenon of the New English family of the 17th century, the first century of the existence of American national literature, presented in the works of early American authors - period insufficiently studied in literary criticism. Untranslated or incompletely translated into Russian works of such religious and public figures, writers as Richard Mather (Diary), Inkris Mather (The Life and Death of the Reverend Richard Mather), Edward Johnson (The Miraculous Providence of the Savior of Zion in New England) , Samuel Sewall (Diary), John Cotton (God’s Promise to His Plantation), Cotton Mather (Life of Mr. Johnatan Burr), are introduced into literary criticism. Being one of the key in the early history and literature of the United States, the theme of the family has the following aspects considered within the framework of the article: the move of families to a new continent, settling in a new place, the status of a father, mother, and child. The process of formation and existence in extreme conditions of a Protestant family is analyzed, the role of the family community in the fulfillment of the sacred mission - the creation of the kingdom of Christ on new lands - is determined. The conclusion is made about the uniqueness of the New English family of the 17th century, which combined the features of both the family structure that developed in European society and those born in the process of American experiments. The idea is emphasized that the disclosure of the family theme by early American authors clearly represents the features of American literature of the 17th century in general. The article uses biographical, structural, cultural and historical methods of literary analysis.
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Kohler, Maxie P., Gary L. Sapp, Emmett T. Kohler, and Rebecca Sandoval. "Tennessee Self-Concept Scale Scores of Urban African-American Women." Psychological Reports 91, no. 3 (December 2002): 915–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2002.91.3.915.
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The Tennessee Self-concept Scale: Second Edition scores of 33 urban, African-American women were compared in a pretest-posttest design. The treatment was exposure to a 3-mo. literacy and social skills training program. Contrary to expectations, scores on just two subscales—Self-criticism and Physical Self—fell outside the average range. Also, Physical Self was the only scale score to change significantly (–3.83). These results suggest that self-esteem scores of urban African Americans were similar to those of women in the general population.
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Lo, Marie. "Passing recognition Obasanand the borders of Asian American and Canadian literary criticism." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 5, no. 3 (September 2007): 307–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/147757007x224016.
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Heinzkill, Richard. "References in Scholarly English and American Literary Journals Thirty Years Later: A Citation Study." College & Research Libraries 68, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.68.2.141.
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This study examines 20,802 citations in 555 journal articles devoted to criticism of English and American literature published in 2003. Books are cited far more often (75.8%) than journal articles (19.8%). Over half of the monographs cited (55.4%) are less than twenty years old. In general, journal articles published within the past twenty years are the most frequently cited. Literary scholars use a diversity of monographs which fall outside of the core classifications for literature; over 40% are outside. This study is compared to other citation studies of English and American literature. It concludes with observations on the use of the Web, browsing by literary researchers, and English as an interdisciplinary field.
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Peavler, Terry J. "After the Boom: The Coming of Age of Latin American Literary Criticism." Latin American Research Review 28, no. 2 (1993): 221–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100037481.
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Pashko, Oksana. "“The Nature of the Novella” by Hryhoriy Mayfet." Trimarium 2, no. 2 (August 24, 2023): 193–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.55159/tri.2023.0102.08.
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The article reconstructs Hryhoriy Mayfet’s theory of the novella, which he presented in his two-volume work The Nature of the Novella (1928–1929). The Ukrainian scholar’s theoretical suggestions fit into the general context of German and American literary critics’ search for the key features of the novella genre. The article also reveals the history of the controversy over Mayfet’s book in the Ukrainian literary process of the late 1920s and early 1930s, which took place between Volodymyr Derzhavyn, Felix Yakubovsky, and the critics of New Generation. This discussion, which lasted almost four years, demonstrates how ideological control was increasing in Ukrainian literary criticism in the early 1930s.
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Nam, JungAe. "The Jewishness in Characters, Themes, and Literary Styles of Arthur Miller's Plays." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 45, no. 12 (December 31, 2023): 985–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.12.45.12.985.
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This study aims to identify Jewish characteristics in Arthur Miller's eight major plays, focusing on their characters, themes, and writing styles. As a Jewish American immigrant, Miller has been praised for portraying the American ego or culture. Until now, criticism of Miller's plays has taken his imperfect American self for granted as the standard of universality. Critics analyzed only the form and content revealed on the surface of the plays, which have become ambiguous due to the author's double identities. Miller presents a typical American middle-class character on the surface of his works but, in deep structure, projects the collective Jewish ideology and prophetic discourses oriented toward the Old Testament. This study redefines the propositions of 'Modern Tragedy,' 'Common Man,' and 'Whole Social Drama' that Miller claimed to emphasize the universality of his works. The analysis of Miller's plays' characters, themes, and writing styles reveals that he reflects his Jewish identity more strongly than his American ego.
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Qiong, Pei, and Hang Yue. "An Analysis on Carrie’s Ethical Choices in Sister Carrie." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 6, no. 3 (August 13, 2022): p46. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v6n3p46.
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Sister Carrie is the masterpiece of Theodore Dreiser, an American realist writer. The novel is set in the big cities of Chicago and New York at the turn of 20th century. At that time, Consumer Culture prevailed and money defined interpersonal relationship in the United States. This paper made an in-depth analysis of Carrie’s ethical choices from the perspective of Nie Zhenzhao’s Ethical Literary Criticism. Ethical Literary Criticism emphasizes that a novel should not be isolated from its ethical environment. Therefore, this paper focuses on the ethical environment at that time, Carrie’s moral confusion and and the ethical choices she makes. Meanwhile, it is summarized that Carrie is not a simply moral degenerate, but a new citizen who is deeply affected by social transformation with a new ethical tendency, which represents Dreiser’s ethical value.
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Simpson, James. "Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53, no. 3 (September 1, 2023): 451–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10689603.
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Almost every interpretative university discipline in or adjacent to the Humanities makes routine, unproblematic appeal to intention as an interpretative move. By proscribing intentionalism as an instrument of interpretation, Literary Criticism is the outlier among adjacent and not so adjacent disciplines. The introduction to the special issue “Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then” maps the prime features of the intellectual landscape concerning intention and literary criticism in Anglo-American and French traditions since the late eighteenth century. It then highlights the losses that Literary Criticism incurs by its repudiation of intention as a heuristic tool. Apart from its loss of intellectual esteem by peers, any interpretive practice that refuses to intuit intention also loses significant cognitive and ethical purchase. The nature and magnitude of these losses can be measured in many ways. Articles in this special issue measure these losses by looking to the later medieval period in particular (with contributions also from the early medieval and early modern periods), when intention rose dramatically as a heuristic tool in many discursive fields, notably in criminal law, penitential ethics, and biblical hermeneutics. The contributions also explicate the way a premodern or early modern discourse deploys and sometimes defines intentionalism.
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Torres, Milton L. "Presentation of the Dossier." Caminhando 22, no. 2 (December 21, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15603/2176-3828/caminhando.v22n2p15-16.
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We are pleased to offer our readers a brief about Contributions of the archaeological research and literary approaches of Bible, an effort to honor our commitment to scientific theological production, in this case engaging a science whose unique contribution has enriched and continues to enrich our knowledge of Biblical lands and times, providing us with important comparative material to our own times and circumstances. For this reason, the article chosen to open these considerations is “Brief history of biblical archeology: contribution and american criticism”, by Fábio Augusto Darius and Elder Hosokawa, in which these researchers show the affinities of Biblical archaeology with archaeological science in general, and devote themselves to the ambitious goal of relating, even if briefly, the main names and events of Biblical archaeology from its origin to the present, as well as present important aspects of the American contribution to the research, dissemination, and criticism of Biblical archaeology.
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Bonilla Navarro, José Francisco. "Discursiveness and History in the Central American Avant-Gardes." LETRAS, no. 71 (January 2, 2022): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-71.2.
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An approach is offered for the study of discursive manifestations of the avant-garde historical movements in Central American literature to delimit their aesthetic, ideological and thematic features in comparison with the aesthetic framework of the Spanish American avant-garde. Works by four writers are analyzed: Rafael Arévalo Martínez and Luis Cardoza y Aragón, in Guatemala; José Coronel Urtecho and Pablo Antonio Cuadra, in Nicaragua. The analysis of the texts attempts to fill a void that Central American literary criticism has not addressed for several decades, perhaps due to the lack of institutionalization that these artistic manifestations had in Central American countries.
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Williams, Raymond Leslie. "Literary Criticism and Cultural Observation: Recent Studies on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature." Latin American Research Review 21, no. 1 (1986): 258–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100021993.
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Baba, Maria C., Febe F. I. Wanggai, and Maksimilianus Doi. "COURAGE IN HARPER LEE’S NOVEL TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD." Lantern: Journal of Language and Literature 8, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37478/lantern.v8i2.3960.
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Creswell, J. (2014). Research design: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. Los Angeles: University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Elmes. G. (2012). Research methods in psychology. Canada: Nelson Education. Klarer, M. (2013). An introduction to literary studies. New York: Routledge. Larrson, L. & Woolf, V. (2017). Walking Virginia Woolf’s London: An investigation in literary geography. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Mays, K. J. (2015). The Norton introduction to literature. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Putman, D. (2010). The psychology of courage: modern research on an ancient virtue. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Turco, L. (2020). The book of literary terms: the genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary criticism, and scholarship. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
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Kamil, Sukron. "Literature and Social Issues: Study of Islam, Secularism, and Humanism in Achdiat’s Atheis Indonesian Novel." Insaniyat : Journal of Islam and Humanities 8, no. 1 (November 30, 2023): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/insaniyat.v8i1.33242.
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Although religion faces many challenges, such as clashing with modernity and becoming the object of criticism, religion has a thousand lives. One Indonesian novel created by Achdiat Karta Mihardja entitled Atheis (1990) pictured this religious phenomenon. Therefore, this article discusses Islam, secularism, and humanism in the Novel. This is qualitative research with the literary approach that combines the comparative literature theory of American schools and sociology focused on the sociology of modernity and religion. This research finds the novel as a criticism and reconstruction of Islam that is compatible with secularism and humanism in general, though in certain parts they are different. Further, the author of this novel reveals a good and proper Islam based on the text, first, it is concerned not only with the afterlife but also the present and here-ness real life. Thus, he criticizes the Islamic pattern which believes in superstition. Second, the Islamic form according to humanism and moderat feminism as the core of Islam is a public benefit and blessing for the universe. This research concluded that the novel's criticism is in line with the criticism in the scientific sociological Islamic literature.
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Leite, Giovanna de Araújo. "The discursivity of the covers of The country of women, by writer Gioconda Belli on utopia and dystopia." Caderno Pedagógico 21, no. 1 (January 12, 2024): 1146–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.54033/cadpedv21n1-060.
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Nicaraguan author Gioconda Belli, born in the city of Managua on December 9, 1948, wrote the novel The Country of Women. In addition to being an activist and militant, she is a writer who brings to her literary productions love for her country and the search for gender equity in public and private spaces. This article provides a brief discursive analysis of the covers of this novel, from the perspective of utopia and dystopia. The problem presented is: what is the discursive nature of the covers of O País das Mulheres about utopia and dystopia in the context of contemporary feminist critical theory in Latin America? The general objective is to reflect on the aspects of utopia and dystopia on the covers of the aforementioned book, observing whether they corroborate feminist critical theory and cultural studies in Latin America, reflecting on the discourses of utopia and dystopia. The methodology used for theoretical and analytical production is of a bibliographic nature, as authors of feminist literary criticism and utopia and/or dystopia were used. For the analysis, covers of the book O País das Mulheres were collected on the public domain website – Google Images – for analysis and discussion purposes on how the structure of patriarchy is deconstructed on these covers. From this approach, it was understood that the social roles of men and women are redefined in a utopian characteristic of equity and in a plan of hope and transformation, widely discussed and claimed by feminist literary criticism, in addition to also bringing dystopian moments necessary for the deconstruction of patriarchy. It is believed that this work is fundamental for thinking about Latin American feminist demands, as it brings up struggles that sister countries also experience in contemporary times, involving gender politics between men and women.
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Soltysik, Agnieszka M. "The uses of the American Gothic: The politics of a critical term in post-war American literary criticism." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 3, no. 2 (June 2005): 237–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477570005052527.
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Spasić Jakovljević, Tijana R. "KRITIKA POSTMODERNISTIČKE IRONIJE U DOKUMENTARNOJ PROZI DEJVIDA FOSTERA VOLASA." Nasledje Kragujevac XX, no. 56 (2023): 207–2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2356.207sj.
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His criticism and efforts to overcome the negative consequences of postmodern irony – mostly as a worldview that has had a profound impact on contemporary American society and literature – are central to understanding David Foster Wallace’s literary work. Unlike his highly influential fiction (novels and short stories), his nonfiction (essays and articles) still remains understudied, in spite of the volume and importance of his essays in the Ameri- can culture and beyond. The paper analyses Wallace’s criticism of postmodern irony in his nonfiction by considering three selected essays, with the aim of examining the possibility that Wallace’s nonfiction succeeds in even further articulating his artistic intentions, which have in recent analyses been qualified as post-ironic.
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Monica Chifor. "Modernism-context and Overlooked Literary Manifestations." Creative Launcher 8, no. 4 (August 31, 2023): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2023.8.4.07.
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The following paper discusses the emergence and characteristics of modernism, a dominant trend in art and culture that emerged in the late 19th century. Modernism encompasses various aspects of culture, including high art, criticism, city planning, and more. In literature, modernism represents a reaction against the conventions of realist narrative, moving away from traditional storytelling and embracing new techniques such as interior monologue and showing instead of telling. The research explores the debate on whether modernism has come to an end. Critics argue that it ended around 1930, while others disagree, pointing to the continued emergence of literary studies on modernism and its influence on various literary theories. The concept of modernism is discussed in an interdisciplinary context, encompassing various artistic currents, including symbolism, impressionism, expressionism, and more. The paper also touches upon the development of modernism in different art forms like visual arts, music, and architecture, and its influence on the concept of the “Bauhaus” movement. Furthermore, the paper discusses the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the early 20th century. It highlights prominent figures of the movement, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Bruce Nugent, who expressed African American life and culture through various forms of art. The impact of mass culture on modernism is also explored, with references to Mathew Arnold’s concept of culture and anarchy and F.R. Leavis’ criticism of mass civilization and its effect on authentic feeling and responsible thinking. Overall, the paper provides and overview of modernism’s multifaceted nature, its influence on various art forms, and its interaction with societal and cultural shifts during the 20th century.
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Kambarova, G. S., B. D. Zhumakayeva, and A. T. Tolysbaeva. "Development of Author Theory in Literary Studies: Past and Present." Iasaýı ýnıversıtetіnіń habarshysy 129, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 147–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.47526/2023-3/2664-0686.11.
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The relevance of the article is a comprehensive analysis of the problem of the historical development of the concept of «author» in literary studies as a multifaceted category of personality. Attention is drawn to the direction of development of the author's theory in literature in the periods of Romanticism, structuralism, formalism, poststructuralism and postmodernism, a comparative, expert analysis of the fundamental theoretical conclusions and basic principles of authoritative representatives of this period is carried out. In «neorealism», which brought a new impetus to literary criticism, over the same period of time in the USA, Europe, Russia and our country, the author's theory developed and interpreted in different ways. The logical connection of these theories with each other was weak and even had contradictions in some issues. In addition, the analysis reveals that the American-English «new criticism», the European-French «criticism of consciousness» and the Soviet classical paradigms have their own characteristics and differences. The consistency of А. Baitursynov's conclusions in relation to the author with the studies of other scientists in the world literature was analyzed. Modern trends in the development of the author's theory were also identified and an expert analysis of the works of scientists in this field was carried out. As the main components that make up the concept of «Author», the categories are defined – «the image of the author», «the position of the author», «the intention of the author», innovative ideas in this direction are analyzed. The authors of the article, relying on the historical pattern in the development and decline of scientific theories and literary schools, formulate that at present there is a «period of theoretical crisis» in science related to the author's theory.
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Piechucka, Alicja. "Art (and) Criticism: Hart Crane and David Siqueiros." Text Matters, no. 8 (October 24, 2018): 229–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2018-0014.
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The article focuses on an analysis of Hart Crane’s essay “Note on the Paintings of David Siqueiros.” One of Crane’s few art-historical texts, the critical piece in question is first of all a tribute to the American poet’s friend, the Mexican painter David Siqueiros. The author of a portrait of Crane, Siqueiros is a major artist, one of the leading figures that marked the history of Mexican painting in the first half of the twentieth century. While it is interesting to delve into the way Crane approaches painting in general and Siqueiros’ oeuvre in particular, an analysis of the essay with which the present article is concerned is also worthwhile for another reason. Like many examples of art criticism—and literary criticism, for that matter—“Note on the Paintings of David Siqueiros” reveals a lot not only about the artist it revolves around, but also about its author, an artist in his own right. In a text written in the last year of his life, Hart Crane therefore voices concerns which have preoccupied him as a poet and which, more importantly, are central to modernist art and literature.
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McNeil, Elizabeth. "Indigenous and Ecofeminist Reclamation and Renewal: The Ghost Dance in Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes." Humanities 11, no. 4 (June 25, 2022): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11040079.
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Early in the development of ecofeminist literary criticism, white feminists borrowed shallowly and unethically from Indigenous cultures. Using that underinformed discourse to interpret Native American women’s literature resulted in idealizing and silencing Indigenous women’s voices and concerns. Native American feminist literary critics have also asserted that a well-informed, inclusive “tribal-feminism” or Indigenous-feminist critical approach can be appropriate and productive, in that it focuses on unique and shared imbalances created by white patriarchal colonization, thinking, and ways of being that affect Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and cultures and the environment. In her third novel, Gardens in the Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko interweaves an ecological critique of white imperialist botanical exploitation of landscapes and Indigenous peoples globally with both a celebration of Native American relationships to the land and Indigenous women’s resourceful resistance and an ecofeminist reclamation of European pagan/Great Goddess iconography, sacred landscapes, and white feminist autonomy. Expanding on earlier Indigenous-feminist readings, this ecofeminist analysis looks at a key trope in Gardens, the Ghost Dance, an environmentally and ancestrally focused nineteenth-century sacred resistance and reclamation rite. Silko’s is a late-twentieth-century literary adaptation/enactment in what is the continuing r/evolution of the Ghost Dance, a dynamic figure in Native American literature and culture.
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Stachura, Paweł. "Anticipation and Divination of Technological Culture: Dialectic Images of the Internet in Emerson’s Nature." Polish Journal for American Studies, no. 10 (2016) (August 29, 2023): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.10/2016.09.
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The article presents certain aspects of the Internet (interface design, user behavior, advertising, codes of conduct) as new incarnations of the American pastoralism, defined in terms derived from literary criticism and history of American literature. The rationale of this procedure is provided in terms of “dialectic images,” which are old pieces of imagery that seem to anticipate subsequent technological and social developments. Of particular importance is the set of dialectical images derived from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, and the pastoral descriptions of nature derived from various American poets and fiction writers. Arguably, dialectic images of the Internet offer an opportunity for a better understanding of contemporary development of the Internet, and its possible future.
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McCutcheon, Russell T. "The crisis of academic labour and the myth of autonomy: Dispatch from the job wars." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 27, no. 4 (December 1998): 387–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842989802700403.
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Beginning with the author's own experiences, this article examines the plight of graduate students in the current academic job market. After surveying such fields as literary criticism and culture studies for engaged responses to the pressures facing North American graduate students and non-tenure track instructors in the humanities and social sciences, the author indicts colleagues in the study of religion for the manner in which their general preoccupation with describing and interpreting things eternal and immaterial has allowed them to remain aloof from the real-life conditions of the academy in general and their graduate students in particular.
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Indriyanto, Kristiawan. "ARTICULATING THE MARGINALIZED VOICES: SYMBOLISM IN AFRICAN AMERICAN, HISPANIC, AND ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE." British (Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris) 9, no. 2 (September 26, 2020): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31314/british.9.2.20-36.2020.
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The present study contextualizes how symbolism is employed by writers of ethnically minority in the United States as an avenue of their agency and criticism against the dominant white perspective. The history of American minorities is marred with legacy of racial discrimination and segregation which highlights the inequality of race. Literature as a cultural production captures the experiences of the marginalized and the use of symbolism is intended to transform themes into the field of aesthetics. This study is a qualitative research which is conducted through the post-nationalist American Studies framework in order to focus on the minorities’ experience instead of the Anglo-Saxon outlook. The object of the study is three playscripts written from authors from Mexican-American, African-American and Asian-American to emphasize how discrimination is faced by multi-ethnic. The finding suggests how symbolism in these literary works intends to counter the stereotypical representation of Mexican-American, aligns with the passive resistance of the Civil Right Movement and subvert binary opposition of East and West which exoticizing the East. Keywords : minority literature in the U.S , symbolism, post-national
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Saputri, Gisa Maya. "RACISM TOWARDS AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY AS REFLECTED IN MAYA ANGELOU’S I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS: BLACK AESTHETIC CRITICISM." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 8, no. 2 (October 11, 2021): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v8i2.69687.
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The study of the African American community always circulates among the issues of race, racism, discrimination, slavery, and oppression. All these issues become the grand themes of African American literature. These literary works could be studied and covered under the scope of Black Aesthetic criticism. One of the prominent works of African American literature is an autobiography of Maya Angelou entitled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This autobiography portrays Angelou’s childhood experiences which brings up the issues of race, racism, and oppression. This paper aims to analyze the kinds of racism experienced by the African American community and their struggle against it as depicted in the book. To provide a thorough discussion of the matter, critical race theory was employed as the method of analysis. The result is drawn based on the basic tenets of critical race theory proposed by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (2001); everyday racism, interest convergence, the social construction of race, differential realization, intersectionality, and voice of Color. The findings show the struggle of African American community against racism which are expressed through the act of ignorance, promoting intelligence, communal efforts, resistance, promoting social movement, and stepping forward to voice their experience through African American literature.
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REEVES, GARETH. "Songs of the Self: Berryman's Whitman." Romanticism 14, no. 1 (April 2008): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1354991x08000093.
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John Berryman's The Dream Songs and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: the collocation sounds improbable, the former with their formal constrictions and regularities, their ironies and tensions, as well as their angularities, abruptnesses and disruptions, the latter free-form, open-ended, fluid, rhetorically fluent. Furthermore the collocation sounds unlikely in view of the fact that Berryman shared his generation's general, often knee-jerk, suspicion of Romanticism and ‘the romantic’ (the sliding back and forth in his prose between capital and lower-case ‘r’ signifying the kind of assumptions underlying the suspicion). The suspicion went with the territory, which was occupied by the forces of the New Criticism and the critical weaponry of T. S. Eliot, especially in the American academy (Berryman was an academic). (We have since learnt to question the New Criticism's anti-Romantic claims, and, even more, Eliot's championing of what was then called the ‘Classical’ over the ‘Romantic’ – but that is another story.)
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Quayum, Mohammad A., and Md Mahmudul Hasan. "Introducing Bangladeshi Writing in English: Emergence to the Present." Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 12, no. 1 (July 9, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v12i1.1205.
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In postcolonial literary criticism, Bangladeshi writing in English has not received the scholarly attention or the recognition it deserves. However, there is an irony here because colonial Bengal was perhaps the first among the British colonies to embrace English education and its people had early working experiences with the British. Moreover, this literary tradition claims some of the earliest writers of literature written in English outside the British and American canons. In the present time, it has gained renewed vibrancy as writers both in Bangladesh and in the diaspora, especially in the UK, have produced English works both in the original and in translation. Considering the rich background, sophistication and huge potential of Bangladeshi writing in English, in this article we will provide a historical overview and the varying strands of this literary tradition. As editors of this special journal issue, we will also attempt a general outline of the articles included in it and consider the main themes they explicate.
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Yang, Xiaomei. "Value Conflict and Personal Choice in The Scarlet Letter from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism." Education, Language and Sociology Research 5, no. 1 (March 10, 2024): p132. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/elsr.v5n1p132.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was the preeminent American Romantic writer of the 19th century. The Scarlet Letter, as Hawthorne’s classic work, has been praised by most critics. Hawthorne paid attention to the ethical problems of Hester and Dimmesdale and gave a comprehensive depiction of their ethical choices after they had violated the Puritan ethical norms. This paper intends to use ethical literary criticism proposed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao, based on ethical dilemma and ethical choice, within the ethical backdrop of New England, to analyze ethical conflicts and ethical choices of the protagonists in the novel. Ultimately, it seeks to warn people the importance of complying with the ethical norms of the society. Exploring the ethical and moral values embedded in The Scarlet Letter will enhance the domestic study of Hawthorne’s works and better realize the didactic function of literature.
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Nkeirua, Nwachukwu Abigail, Ayebanoa Timibofa, and Arnold Udisi. "Defining Contemporary American Literature: A Study of Louise Gluck’s, The Seven Ages." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 6, no. 12 (December 27, 2023): 484–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2023.v06i12.005.
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This paper defines contemporary American literature with specific references to Louise Gluck’s The Seven Ages. Although a handful of studies have been done on the subject yet, a satisfactory definition of contemporary American Literature has remained a task. The reason for this challenge is tied to the diverse lenses with which scholars have examined the subject matter with special attention to issues of language composition, authorship, setting, culture, characterization, and geographical experiences. More so, separating contemporary American literature from other American literary periods, especially modernism. The significance of this present paper is hinged on the fact that it has demonstrated sparkling differences between contemporary American literature and other epochs, with glaring shreds of evidence from Gluck’s collection. The essay identified, transformation, experimentation, coming of age, technology, cyber literature, history and memory, intertextuality, identity, literature of voice, family and beauty, spirit, nature, and wit as major themes that dominate contemporary American literature. Also, the literature of self, isolation, disillusionment, and the world as characteristics that characterize contemporary American literature. In terms of style, the work examined monologue, free versification, and simplified diction as core literary patterns. The qualitative research method was adopted, while historical criticism was applied for analysis. Findings show that contemporary American literature is different from other periods in American literature, even though, it shares proximity with modern American literature. In the same vein, not all literature weaved in the 1950s belongs to this period, but those produced in the last twenty-two years between (2000-2022). The submission of this study is that further studies be done on the area of defining the nature and characteristics of contemporary American literature, using texts weaved in the last twenty-two years. ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Dec. 28, 2023
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Lewis, Bart L. "Recent Criticism of Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature." Latin American Research Review 20, no. 2 (1985): 182–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100034579.
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Albin, María C., and Raúl Marrero-Fente. "Celebrating the Millennium: Latin American Literature and Criticism." Latin American Research Review 34, no. 3 (1999): 252–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100039479.
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Chernyshova, Svitlana. "The US migratory novel: toward the ideology of genre." Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philology", no. 92 (August 15, 2023): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-1864-2023-92-07.
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This article focuses on the US migratory novel and the reasons it has been overlooked in literary scholarship. It is emphasized that the study of migration experience is important as it represents the worldview of historical subjects who, although they contributed a lot to the building of the New World, always existed on the margins of both real life and fiction. Literary scholars concentrated on the fictional images of colonizers, builders of a new world order, pioneers, farmers, cowboys, but not immigrants as such, although all these identities of American history were rooted in the migration experience, whether of their own or of their parents or grandparents. The aim of this article is to draw attention to the genre of the American migratory novel, which is underrepresented in literary criticism, and to identify the connection between migration literary discourse and the ideological regimes of specific historical periods. Nevertheless, migratory fiction serves as a powerful tool for negotiating narrow group representations within the larger receiving community. By depicting the experiences, challenges, and aspirations of migrants, it offers a platform to explore the complexities of cultural identity, displacement, and assimilation. Migratory fiction challenges the dominant narratives and stereotypes imposed upon migrant communities, seeking to humanize their stories and promote empathy and understanding among the receiving community. These narratives navigate the fine balance between preserving the unique cultural heritage of migrants and engaging with the broader context of their new surroundings. They challenge existing notions of national identity, fostering a more inclusive and diverse understanding of what it means to be American. A perspective for further research is the analysis of migration experience in literary writings and its correlation with developments in other fields of humanities. As migratory fiction expands our horizons, encouraging us to embrace and celebrate the multifaceted nature of diversity in all its forms.
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GRAY, RICHARD. "Writing American Literary History Sacvan Bercovitch (ed.), The Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994–2005, £495.00). Volume One: 1590–1820 (1994, £70.00). Pp. xiii+829. ISBN 0 521 30105 [squf ]. Volume Two: Prose Writing, 1820–1865 (1995, £75.00). Pp. xviii+887. ISBN 0 521 30106 8. Volume Three: Prose Writing, 1860–1920 (2005, £80.00). Pp. xi+813. ISBN 0 521 30107 6. Volume Four: Nineteenth-Century Poetry, 1800–1910 (2004, £75.00). Pp. x+562. ISBN 0 521 30108 4. Volume Five: Poetry and Criticism, 1900–1950 (2003, £75.00). Pp. xi+624. ISBN 0 521 30109 2. Volume Six: Prose Writing, 1910–1950 (2002, £70.00). Pp. xx+620. ISBN 0 521 49731 0. Volume Seven: Prose Writing, 1940–1990 (1999, £75.00). Pp. xxiii+795. ISBN 0 521 49732 9. Volume Eight: Poetry and Criticism, 1940–1995 (1996, £75.00). Pp. viii+545. ISBN 0 521 49733 7." Journal of American Studies 40, no. 2 (July 27, 2006): 399–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875806001447.
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Each generation needs to rewrite literary history. And it may be that this generation needs to do it more than most, if only because the proliferation of schools and theories has turned what was once common critical ground into a battlefield. American books, among others, have become a site of struggle, and American writers have been among those caught in the criss-crossing searchlights of ethnic and gender studies, interdisciplinary investigations and studies of popular culture, language and communication. Just how far things have gone can be measured by the fact that every term in the phrase “history of American literature,” is now open to debate. The textuality of history and the historicity of the text have become the most contentious issues in contemporary criticism, while the question of nationhood, in particular, is under scrutiny. In a famous phrase, Walt Whitman described his work as a language experiment, an attempt to summon a nation into being through words. The slippery, plural nature of American identity and the bewildering contingencies of American history that drove Whitman to say this feed into the more challenging of the recent accounts of American writing.
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Neira Palacio, Edison. "Gutiérrez Girardot y Mito: el contexto universal y las fuentes como escenario de la crítica." Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, no. 17 (November 2, 2013): 83–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.17371.
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El presente artículo analiza la función social e intelectual de la revista Mito en las letras y cultura colombianas, y en particular, el papel del ensayista y filósofo colombiano Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot (1928-2005) quien fue miembro del grupo fundacional y colaborador permanente de la revista.Descriptores: Literatura colombiana; Gutiérrez Girardot, Rafael; revista Mito; revistas literarias; literatura latinoamericana; ensayo; crítica literaria; estudios culturales; sociología de la literatura; historiografía literaria.Abstract: The present article analyzes the social and intellectual role of the journal Mito in the Colombian letters and culture, specially the role of the essayist and Colombian philosopher Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot (1928-2005) who was member of the initial journal's group and its permanent collaborator. Key words: Colombian literature; Gutiérrez Girardot, Rafael; journal Mito; literary journals; Latin American literature; essay; literary criticism; cultural studies; sociology of literature; literary historiography.
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Feng, Xiaoxuan. "The Giver’s Ethical Choices—Analysis of The Giver from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism." Studies in English Language Teaching 11, no. 4 (September 20, 2023): p7. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v11n4p7.
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The Giver is a novel published in 1993 by Lois Lowry, an American female writer. The novel tells a story of a future community where people’s lives are arranged and regulated according to their scientific choices, but at the same time they have lost their freedom and right to choose. Since it was published, the novel has been analyzed and studied by a number of scholars, focusing on the growth of the young protagonist Jonas, the science fiction elements of the novel, and its dystopian perspective. This article analyzes both the scientific choices of the community and the Giver’s ethical choices from the perspective of ethical literary criticism. It reads carefully into the correct ethical choices made by the Giver when facing the incorrect scientific ones, revealing the benevolence, wisdom, courage, and sense of responsibility possessed by the Giver, and highlighting his value as well. The article reiterates that only the choices in line with the ethical selection criteria of “truthfulness, goodness and beauty” of human civilization can be regarded as right ones. At the same time, the article’s research further prompts readers to reflect on the future of humanity and what to do in the face of scientific and ethical choices.
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O'Briant, Jack. "Fluid Faiths: Reading Religion Relationally in Asian American Literature." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 55, no. 2 (September 2022): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924154.
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Abstract: While the designation of Asian American literature as a field dates back to as recently as the 1970s, it is nevertheless surprising that, to my knowledge, there is not a single scholarly monograph on the topic of religion in Asian American literature. However, in religious studies and the social sciences, there is a growing body of scholarship examining the role of religion in Asian American communities, and particularly, but not exclusively, the prominence of various expressions of Christianity therein. Despite this prominence, criticism within the field of Asian American literature has largely interpreted the presence of Christianity primarily in terms of its associations with oppressive colonial regimes. This article demonstrates the value of supplementing such readings with greater attentiveness to the specific religious histories underlying Asian American literature in order to better account for the ambivalence—rather than outright antagonism—toward Christianity that seems characteristic of many Asian American literary texts. Such an approach implies, just as national and racial identities are historically complex and often contested categories, that religion's cultural fluidity makes it an equally rich site for understanding literary expressions of the painful loss and transformation as well as the unexpected richness and beauty manifested within the conditions and consequences of global migration. Drawing on Shu-mei Shih's notion of relational comparison, the article turns to scholarship on the history of Christianity in both Korea and Vietnam to demonstrate how these histories inform and aid in interpreting the ambivalences of Christianity's presence in the novels Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung and The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thi diem thúy.