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Detestable as Joint-Stock Companies or Nations: Melville and the International
(2009-01-01)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)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, and ... -
The Muse and Deacon Wright: A Collection of Verse by L. N. Wright
(1986-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
Commencement Speeches of the 75th Anniversary Year Southwest Texas State University
(1980-01-01)Commencement Speeches 1978-1979 Southwest Texas State University. -
Rosemary for Remembrance: a Memoir Commemorating the Dept. of English, Southwest Texas State University in its 75th Year
(1979-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
Getting and Communicating Thought
(1933-01-01)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 this ... -
A Postmodern Iconography: Vonnegut and the Great American Novel
(Cambridge Scholars, 2008-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
Geocriticism and Classic American Literature
(2008-11-08)“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 Poetics of Descent: Irreversible Narrative in Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle"
(Cambridge Scholars, 2007-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
The Whale in the World: Using Moby-Dick in a General Education Course
(Rapid Intellect, 2008-04-01)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 ... -
Reason and Revolution Redux: Antonio Negri's Political Descartes
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
The Agony of the Political. A review of Chantal Mouffe, On the Political (London: Routledge, 2005)
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
"Spaces that before were blank": Truth and Narrative Form in Melville's South Seas Cartography
(Penn State University Press, 2007-01-01)No abstract prepared. -
“Es lässt sich nicht lesen”: Poe and the Inscrutable
(2008-01-01)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 ... -
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Review of Jonathan Arac: The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860
(San Diego State University, 2007-05-01)No abstract prepared. -
Review of Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History
(Duke University Press, 2007-03-01)No abstract prepared. -
Believing in America: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era
(American Studies Center, 2006-12-01)No abstract prepared. -
