McHaney's observations about the surprise visitors and comic scenes in each of the novel's four parts and her reading of the funeral scene as a "whodunit" situation reveal the hand of not only a ...Welty scholar, but also a seasoned educator. ...she felt the need to document southern life through these various modes-to capture the visual South through her photographs and to transcribe the unique voices that came to inhabit her mother's world as a child. ...Welty does not address the parallels (apparent to McHaney) between "two white women photographing black-skinned people under unique conditions of absolute and innocent trust" (McHaney's words; 86), but she is praised for naming the "magnificent unselfconsciousness" of Riefenstahl's African subjects, which reveals "man's original majesty and acceptance of life" (Welty qtd. in McHaney 86).
According to Malcolm Cowley's "Appendix: Years of Birth" in Exile's Return, the Lost Generation is the age group of more than 100 writers, "most of whom were born between 1894 and 1900" (315)-that ...is, young enough to be Dreiser's children. According to the account by Jerome Loving, "Lewis made the accusation publicly at a dinner in honor of a Russian writer at the Metropolitan Club when he pointedly refused to take the podium in the presence of the plagiarist as well as 'two sage critics' (Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane) who had objected to his receiving the Nobel Prize" (358). According to the tape that is transcribed and printed in Faulkner in the University, he said: I think that Dreiser knew exactly what he wanted to say, but he had a terrific difficulty in saying it, there was never any fun to him, any pleasure to him, he was convinced that he had a message, I don't mean an ideological message or political but he had to tell folks, This is what you are. According to Dreiser's account, the national newspaper coverage about the lynching of a Jew, Leo Frank, in Georgia reached him travelling in Ohio.
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Why Read? McMaster, Rowland
English studies in Canada,
06/2013, Letnik:
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The pleasure deserves attention because, in a desire to defend the value of literature, even very good critics are apt to treat it as religion, social studies, political commentary, or psychological ...analysis rather than as art. The writing of literature is a symbolic activity manifesting certain fundamental oft-repeated designs, myths, and components of myths, structures that psychiatrists find in the dreams of the uneducated, that anthropologists find in the folklore of primitive Amazonian tribes, that classicists find in ancient mythology, and that critics find in highly sophisticated works of literary art. A more immediate example of metaphorical design determining governmental policy and views of social responsibility might be that of "nature red in tooth and claw," the pattern implied in the struggle for survival and survival of the fittest, familiar notions articulated gradually from Malthusian population theory, laissez-faire economics, and, forming a keystone, Darwin's biology of natural selection. The realist in him strives with the Duchess in his uneasy comment: "A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life: but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a play worse; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue" (Johnson vii 704).
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Knopf, at the same time, was celebrating five years as head of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. He and his wife, Blanche, were establishing themselves as "superstars of their epoch, setting standards of quality ...and courage in publishing never before or since matched" (Targ 212). According to Knopf, Professor Joel Spingarn talked of making books in a way that Knopf had never previously considered; he discussed books "from a bibliophile's and collector's point of view" (Memoirs 29).
Due to the history of racism in America, African Americans have always held a conflicted relationship with it. This is true in both regional and local contexts. This study imagines the ways in which ...African American Arkansans are contributing to the notion of “place” in both real and imagined ways via published fiction, oral histories, and memoirs. The bildungsroman, or coming of age genre, serves to unify seeming disparate genres in the project, as all texts in the study depict growing up in Arkansas. The most comprehensive treatment of Arkansas as a place may be found in Brooks Blevins’s cultural history, Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters , Hillbillies and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State. Herein, Blevins uses cultural artifacts from Arkansas’s frontier history to the Clinton presidency to account for how the hillbilly became the image most often associated with Arkansas. This regional treatment of Arkansas’s image inspired my search for African American artifacts depicting Arkansas. This study examines four historical periods of African American literature depicting Arkansas. To demonstrate how competing narratives of place exist, it begins with the Works Projects Administration’s oral histories of former slaves in Arkansas, comparing those narratives to plantation tourism sites in Arkansas. Next, to illustrate how Jim Crow affects understanding of Arkansas in childhood, the study examines early twentieth century memoirs of childhood set in Jim Crow Arkansas as depicted by Richard Wright, Daisy Bates, and Maya Angelou. The third period examines three Little Rock Nine memoirs depicting the Central High School integration in Little Rock--imagining the child’s role in challenging the power of Jim Crow. The fourth and final period examines depictions or childhood in Arkansas since Jim Crow, and includes two queer coming of age narratives and one geopolitical narrative, produced by Daniel Black, E. Lynne Harris, and Henry Dumas respectively. The study found that, not only do competing images of Arkansas exist in all periods of literary production depicting Arkansas, but that marginal groups (black, queer, women, and children) have particularly distinctive perspectives about Arkansas. Such narratives depict Arkansas as both a place of trauma and of healing.
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Journal of American studies,
02/2013, Letnik:
47, Številka:
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In this thorough and insightful study, Powell analyzes selected southern authors and texts to make the claim that "the agrarian tradition combined in distinctive ways with the peculiar institution of ...slavery and the southern literary tradition to promote the stereotype of southerners and even southern literature being notably, even fiercely, "anti-intellectual'" (1). For authors such as Doris Betts, Tim McLaurin, and Gail Godwin, who emerged as southern writers after creative writing programs had become firmly established, occupying margins informed by gender and class dynamics involves trying to navigate southern institutional settings and "off-campus" locales that may be in close geographical proximity to one another but seem worlds apart (21). Powell's excellent chapter on Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Randall Keenan clearly demonstrates how these African American writers in the South revise and extend the black literacy narrative tradition to work against anti-intellectual currents originating from sources outside and within rural black communities.
This article is a study of the 1905-6 world tour undertaken by William Jennings Bryan and his family. Bryan was one of the major US politicians of his era. Three times a Democratic party presidential ...nominee (1896, 1900, 1908), he played a prominent role in the various reform crusades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was the leading figure on the populist, agrarian wing of his party. To date, however, historians have paid little attention to his extensive travels and voluminous travel writing, in large part because hostile journalists and historians – chief among them Walter Lippmann, H. L. Mencken, and Richard Hofstadter – succeeded in casting him as an archetype of American parochialism. This study makes us aware of Bryan's published and unpublished correspondence, the memoirs of his daughter Grace, newspaper reports, and cartoons to form a reassessment of Bryan, focusing primarily on his encounters with unfamiliar cultures, and with imperialism in the Philippines, British India, and the Dutch East Indies. In so doing, it places Bryan for the first time in a global and transnational frame, and mounts a broader critique of the rigidly regional and national orientation of the US historiography of populism.
H.L. Mencken - American Writers 62 was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered ...from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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