19 research outputs found

    Imagining Workers: The Working-Class Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature. (Volumes I and II).

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    This dissertation examines how late nineteenth-century American realist and naturalist narratives defuse the working-class drive for class self-determination and political power. The texts examined are Rebecca Harding Davis\u27s Life in the Iron Mills (1861), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\u27s The Silent Partner (1871), Henry James\u27s The Princess Casamassima (1886), William Dean Howells\u27s A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) and Theodore Dreiser\u27s Sister Carrie (1900). Each work is examined in the context of a specific proletarian insurgency that was taking place at roughly the same time, and sometimes the same place, in which the author was writing. Each text bears the impress of specific attempts by proletarians to represent themselves through activism and mass action. These proletarian attempts at self-representation become historically knowable to the extent that they at once resist and abet literary representation. Thus, while each literary text attempts to denature the emergent working-class presence in the body politic, that presence persists, often as a kind of absent or negative image of itself. Working-class presence inspires disruptions in the usual realist time-order narration, for instance, and it deeply affects plot, setting, characterization and metaphor use. Further, because realism and naturalism define themselves in the literary marketplace through rendering empirically precise, objective pictures of society, these texts cannot simply erase workers from the narrative. Working-class presence certainly poses a threat to the class privileges of the middle-class authors and readers of nineteenth-century fiction, but it also provides an opportunity for those writers and readers to carve their niche in the emerging power structure of consumer capitalism. Thus instead of eliding working-class presence, realist and naturalist narratives at once depict it and imaginatively manage the threats it poses to the status quo. Realist and naturalist writings are at once drawn to and repulsed by the scenes of proletarian insurrection that marked the late nineteenth century. The resultant writing-under-erasure of workers and worker power deeply determines American literature

    Las Vegas Daily Optic, 07-15-1903

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    Mythic women reborn: Djebar's Scheherazade & Atwood's Penelope

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    Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019This thesis examines how two modern female writers approach the retelling of stories involving mythic heroines. Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade repurposes Arabian Nights to reclaim a sisterly solidarity rooted in a pre-colonial Algerian female identity rather than merely colonized liberation. In approaching the oppressive harem through the lens of the bond between Scheherazade and her sister Dinarzade, Djebar allows women to transcend superficial competition and find true freedom in each other. Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad interrogates the idealized wife Penelope from Homer's Odyssey in order to highlight its heroine's complicity in male violence against women. Elevating the disloyal maids whom Odysseus murders, Atwood questions the limitations of sisterhood and the need to provide visibility, voice, and justice for the forgotten victims powerful men have dismissed and destroyed. The two novels signal a shift in feminist philosophy from the need for collective action to the need to recognize individual narratives. Both texts successfully re-appropriate the dominant myths they retell to propose a more nuanced and complicated view of what it means to be "Woman."Introduction -- Chapter 1: Competition between mythical woman, shadow sultanas, and djinni consorts: the re-appropriation of Arabian nights in Assia Djebar's A sister to Scheherazade -- Chapter 2: The failure of sisterly solidarity: The Penelopiad and Margaret Atwood's radical deconstruction of the Odyssey -- Conclusion -- Works cited

    1881-08-25

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    The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

    The scapegoat story in the American novel /

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    1879-04-03

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    The Old Commonwealth was a weekly newspaper published in Harrisonburg, Va., between 1865 and 1884

    Red River Campaign

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    Originally published in 1958. Johnson tells the story of the Red River Campaign, which took place in Louisiana and Arkansas in the spring of 1864. In response to the demands of Union Free-Soil interests in Texas, and the need of New England textile manufacturers for cotton, an expedition was undertaken to open the way to Texas. General Nathaniel Banks conducted a combined military and naval expedition up the Red River in a campaign that lasted only from March 23 to May 20, 1864, but was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The campaign ended in Banks's defeat at the Battle of Sabine Crossroads. This book illustrates how military operations during the Civil War were often intimately interwoven with political, economic, and ideological factors, which frequently determined the time and place of a Union offensive. The author describes the desires and opinions of the public, the press, and Lincoln's administration regarding an invasion of Texas, as well as the motivation of the officers themselves, such as Banks's aspiration for the 1864 presidential nomination. Johnson relates vividly the various battles of the expedition and the problems posed by mustering undisciplined troops, by having to procure supplies in poor country with insufficient supply lines, and by contending with bad weather and rough terrain

    Teaching toward understanding: Feminist rhetorical theories and pedagogies in the college composition classroom

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    While recognizing the value of traditional argument, many teacher-scholars have begun to challenge the primacy of antagonistic debate in college classrooms. In Teaching Toward Understanding: Feminist Rhetorical Theories and Pedagogies in the College Composition Classroom, I maintain that the inclusion of invitational rhetoric, embodied rhetoric, and rhetorical listening as classroom content, coupled with the translation of these theories into pedagogical practice, can both challenge and expand current approaches to the teaching of writing and rhetoric. Furthermore, by offering alternatives to antagonistic debate, these rhetorical theories encourage productive and ethical forms of discourse, promoting more successful cross-cultural communication both in the classroom and in the larger civic realm

    Image and glory of God, glory of man : Evangelicals and Paul's hermeneutics of gender in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

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