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The other 1960s: Re-assessing the enduring influence of neoconservatism in the United States [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The 1960s bequeathed to incoming generations of Americans a world in which neoconservatism became the intellectual spearhead ...
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A new intervention in the national imaginaty: The portrayal of the southwest in the novels of Paul Auster [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The article focuses on two novels by Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions (2002), Travels in the Scriptorium (2006), in ...
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A vulnerable sense of place: readapting post-apocalyptic dystopia in octavia butler's parable of the sower and Colson Whitehead's zone one [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Drawing on a number of theoretical works by space, trauma and dystopian studies scholars, this paper reconsiders the ...
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Things that happend in the dark: Readings of intimate partner violence in Stanley and Stella kowalski's relationship [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)This paper discusses the presence of intimate partner violence in the relationship established between the characters of ...
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Shakespeare's dramatic pattern of social change in Saroyan's the time of your life [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939) employs a similar dramatic pattern of social change used in Shakespeare’s The ...
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I have lived in my own book: Patti Smith and the reconstruction of her public persona in life writing [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)In 2010, Patti Smith published her first memoir, Just Kids, winning the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The book recounts ...
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Redemption and home in the African American city upon a hill Hannah Crafts's the bondwoman's narrative [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The Bondwoman’s Narrative (1857) is a novel in which the black female slave Hannah Crafts aims at the remodeling of her ...
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Philanthropic classism: Americanization as a controversial rite of passage in Anzia Yezirska's fiction [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)At the turn of the nineteenth century, eastern European Jewish families migrated to America aspiring to fulfil the ...
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Disabled masculinity as a metaphor of national conflict in the cold war era: Orson Welles' the lady from Shangai, 1947 [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Resisting censorship and American optimism in the postwar era, film noir emerged with some specific particularities which ...
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Two legged wombs: surrogacy and margaret atwood's the handmaid's tale [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale is Margaret Atwood’s most famous work and her first dystopian novel, since all ...
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Urban indians in the short fiction of Sherman Alexie [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Although we still think of American Indians as riding horses, paddling canoes or hunting buffalo, the fact is that three ...
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Grotesque violence and humor in Gerald Vizenor's bearheart: the heirship chronicle [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Gerald Vizenor seeks to challenge static definitions of Native American identity in his early novel Bearheart. To this ...
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Strange women teaching stranger things: mediumship and femane agency in nineteenth-century american spiritualist poetry [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)This article explores the paradoxes posed by American spiritualist poetry in relation to the female voice within ...
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Piercing together: body control, mutability and entertainment technology in infinite jest [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The aim of this essay is to explore body representation and its significance in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite ...
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Tradition of Western Mysticism: A Study of A Selection of his Short Stories [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)The article is devoted to the mystical elements and allusions surfacing in Poe‘s ―analytical,‖ ―angelic,‖ and ―landscape‖ ...
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Transhumanism in Dave Eggers' The Circle: Utopia vs. Dystopia, Dream vs. Nightmare [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)Although transhumanism counts with the support of a growing number of followers, some critics and writers of fiction have ...
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On Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers: Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations [Reseña] [Article]
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Exhaustion and Regeneration in 9/11 Speculative Fiction: Kris Saknussemm’s Beyond The Flags (2015) [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)Early 9/11 fiction has often been criticised for focusing too much on the victims and on the local aspects of the tragedy ...
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On Racism and the Impossibility of Mourning: A Critical Reading of Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen, an American Lyric [Article]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen, An American Lyric (2015) problematizes the notion of citizenship through theory-laden poetical ...