Fleeing the City Reesman, Jeanne Campbell
Studies in American naturalism,
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Since that day I have opened many books, but no economic argument, no lucid demonstration of the logic and inevitableness of Socialism affects me as profoundly and convincingly as I was affected on ...the day when I first saw the walls of the Social Pit rise around me and felt myself slipping down, down, into the shambles at the bottom. Because I started in young, I practically skipped my gay-cat apprenticeship. Ann Douglas writes that the friends who hit the road "interpreted the word "Beat" differently-Ginsberg and Kerouac said it meant exhausted, poor, beatific, while Burroughs, a master ironist, used it as a verb, meaning to steal or con" (6). ...perhaps for "the Beats" the main thing held in common was being on the edges of a newly industrialized post-war landscape that was supposed to provide opportunity, especially in the mystical West. Again the power of redemption is shown as fire, the sun, the light of Christ, the glowing of the stars that light the night instead of only all the blank spaces between them. ...the father's authorship of the boy, telling the story of good people, patiently, but strongly, over and over and over again, does make the story of their lives work and also the novel.
Being Beat Crumbley, Paul
Studies in American naturalism,
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According to Kerouac, the members of this new generation are direct descendants of the "Breton, Wiking, Irishman, Indian, madboy" (359) who surface in the present as "hipsters" whose "long outlines ...of personal experience and vision . . . had become illicit and repressed by War" yet endure as the "stirrings, rumblings of a new soul (that same old human soul)" (362). According to his analysis, Kerouac's joy rises out of "an underground subculture that departed entirely from the dominant middle-class mores . . . and instead offered as an ideal the sense of release and joy experienced by the less materially privileged segments of the society" ("Joy" 419). According to the terms of melodrama as identified by Keith Newlin, the "reliance upon one or two motivating forces to propel its plots" and "the repeated employment of coincidence" stand out as melodramatic features naturalist writers such as London use to structure their writing because doing so "sharpens its clarity of outline and coherence of vision" (9). According to Labor, the import of Coxey's failure had soaked in by May 21, when "Jack's diary entries become increasingly dispirited" (73).
Hurdling the Social Pit Pumphrey, Clint; Cole, Bradford
Studies in American naturalism,
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Additionally, it will explore how the Tramp Diary, hastily scratched in a tattered address book now housed at Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library's Special Collections and Archives, can be ...used as a tool for teaching students broad historical themes. In line with these beliefs and concerns, Coxey concocted two pieces of legislation-the Good Roads Bill and the Non-Interest-Bearing Bond Bill-through which the Federal Government could hire idle men to work on infrastructure improvements and issue money to pay for it. ...turn-ofthe-century tourists began to view sightseeing almost as a patriotic duty (Sears 3-11; Shaffer 1-6). Taken together, these approaches can help students understand the historical context of the 1890s and, consequently, why London hit the road "just because it was easier to than not to." Since 2011, Clint Pumphrey has worked as the manuscript curator in Utah State University's Special Collections and Archives where he manages the Jack and Charmian London papers.
In Gill Lewis’s debut novel, Sky Hawk (2011) two children befriend a wounded osprey, starting a chain reaction that ultimately saves a Ghambian girl. However, the animal itself becomes increasingly ...decorporalized in the process. As this article argues, the human-animal bond in Sky Hawk becomes stronger the more indirect the children’s means of relating to the animal become. Lewis’s human characters can only relate to the symbolic animal, not the real one. While Sky Hawk, on the one hand, is unsettingly anthropocentric and negates direct access to the animal, the story also encourages to dare a metaphoric approach to animals.
Weird science fiction is a subcategory of science fiction that adapts horror and supernatural elements, often with a focus on awe- and fear-inspiring monsters. In this paper, I argue for a shift from ...exploring the generic qualities of weirdness to weirdness as a mode inherent to the ideologies of science fiction. As a mode, the weird’s stance seems to be one of entanglement, porosity, and multispecies becoming, a stance in opposition to the commonly held belief that science-fiction works are a bastion of humanity’s progress ever onwards and upwards. In working out our relationship to progress, a supposedly natural and inevitable forever-fantasy that views the environment as something separate from and with less agency than humans, we come to the weird: we come to progress’s failure – how it fails, why it fails, and where to go from here. The three primary texts analyzed in this paper, Jack London’s “The Red One,” J. G. Ballard’s “The Terminal Beach,” and Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, all occupy an important place historically in the science fiction genre, but they also disrupt the ideologies of progress that dominate much science fiction literature. These works do this through the underlying, shadowy presence of weirdness that reveal both humans' inherent interconnectedness and limited perceptions of the world.
The vogue for the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the popularity of vitalist ideas more generally, periodically claims the attention of historians of early twentieth-century American thought and ...culture. There is little appreciation, however, for either the broad epistemic significance of these ideas or for their profound ethical and political implications. This essay explores the activity of Bergsonian vitalism, particularly as applied by Bergson's radical compatriot, Georges Sorel, within the fractious conversation that attended the emergence of revolutionary syndicalism as a significant force in the pre-war 1910s. Understanding the ways in which this seemingly unprecedented menace to the status quo was understood facilitates a rethinking of the relationship between ideas and experience in the rise of the Industrial Workers of the World, and illuminates the attraction of radically empiricist approaches to interpreting social phenomena in the Progressive Era. Here, as elsewhere, Bergsonism challenged dominant materialistic and mechanistic explanations in the name of “life,” a seductive alternative for those alienated by, or suffering under, the juggernaut of urban-industrial modernization.
Literature has been dealing with modern work and its psychological and social consequences through two kinds of narrations: verismo/realism and symbolism. Jack London wrote incredibly penetrating ...pages from a psychological viewpoint with a veristic prose; Kafka widened the reflection with his symbolism and, particularly, through dreamlike parables. Kafka was not a passive and absent-minded employee. Recent studies on his working documents have shown considerable passion and professional competence. This expertise was poured into his literary works about work and organizations with a direct knowledge. Kafka's symbolist style has been very effective in changing the way to see organizations. The writer particularly realized the growth of the exceeding population in recent years and could grasp the workers' psychology and deeper aspects when they face their superfluity and expulsion from the world of work. More specifically, Kafka was able to analyze psychological surrender to superfluity, which is mainly expressed with a specific form of "mental emptiness," already described by London.
The article focuses on a specific extension of the concept WHITE SILENCE in the “Northern stories” by Jack London. The concept WHITE SILENCE is one of the most interesting concepts not only in the ...literary works of J. London, but also in American culture. Applying the statements of the concept layers structure, we discover that the figurative layer of the concept WHITE SILENCE consists of the ten conceptual features as “territorial area”, “ice”, “cold”, “snow”, “frost”, “silence”, “mental illnesses”, “famine”, “pain”, “physical death”. It also includes three microconcepts LANDSCAPE, NOTHERN NATURE, NOTHERN LIFE CONDITIONS. The most vivid means such as epithet, metaphor, intensification and personification in the “Northern stories” are used.
Charmian Kittredge London is well known to scholars and fans of Jack London. This bibliographic essay is intended to trace recent scholarship on Charmian London. The absence of such scholarship means ...that this essay will look at some of the recent work published on Jack London, focusing on the way that work provides insight into Charmian.
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