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Detestable as Joint-Stock Companies or Nations: Melville and the International
(2009-01-01)<p>Tally reviews Loren Goldner’s Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period ... -
Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature
(2009-10-01)Literature abounds with the description and exploration of spaces. The writer maps the world, combining a representation of real places with the imaginary space of fiction. In some cases, what I have elsewhere called ... -
'We are what we pretend to be': Existential Angst in Vonnegut’s Mother Night
(2009-04-01)<p>The moral of Vonnegut’s third novel, stated in its opening pages, is “We are what we pretend to be.” Vonnegut’s most directly existentialist novel, _Mother Night_ introduces the related themes of alienation, identity, ... -
Commencement Speeches of the 75th Anniversary Year Southwest Texas State University
(1980-01-01)<p>Commencement Speeches 1978-1979 Southwest Texas State University</p> -
Getting and Communicating Thought
(1933-01-01)<p>A tentative endeavor to assist first-semester students in Freshman Composition to attain more easily there putative proficiency-level in the subject, by supplying them with such supplemental materials as they need at ... -
Geocriticism and Classic American Literature
(2008-11-08)<p>“I take SPACE to be the central fact to man in America.” At the beginning of Call me Ishmael, Charles Olson categorically established space as a key concept for American Studies. Yet, for the most part, this concept has ... -
The Whale in the World: Using Moby-Dick in a General Education Course
(2008-04-01)<p>Moby-Dick is perhaps the best known novel in American literature, yet it is generally considered a daunting read, even for English majors in advanced courses. However, I believe that Moby-Dick is a text well suited for ... -
“Es lässt sich nicht lesen”: Poe and the Inscrutable
(2008-01-01)<p>Poe begins and ends his enigmatic study of the man of the crowd with the phrase, applied to a German book, “it does not permit itself to be read.” The same observation might apply to much of Poe’ s own work, in which ... -
Literary Cartography: Space, Representation, and Narrative
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Believing in America: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era
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