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Journal articles on the topic "Gays' writings, american – history and criticism"

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Avallone, Charlene. "What American Renaissance? The Gendered Genealogy of a Critical Discourse." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 112, no. 5 (October 1997): 1102–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463486.

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Since “American renaissance” criticism emerged in 1876, it has derogated women's writings while idealizing men's, despite its shifting definitions of period, canon, and literary standards. My genealogy of the critical discourse of renaissance details ways that this criticism has denied literary value to women writers, especially at historical moments of women's increased publicity and apparent gains of power, thereby helping to maintain larger gender and racial hierarchies. Because of this tradition, I argue, the renaissance discourse is inadequate to current efforts to reenvision United States literary history and to a democratic culture.
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Balfour, Lawrie. "The Appeal of Innocence: Baldwin, Walzer, and the Bounds of Social Criticism." Review of Politics 61, no. 3 (1999): 373–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500028898.

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Racial innocence persists not only in American public life but in its democratic theory as well. An unwillingness to confront the implications of American racial history diminishes theorists' capacity to respond to the exclusion and dehumanization of African Americans in the post-civil rights era. Reading James Baldwin's social critical essays against Michael Walzer's writings on the practice of social criticism, this essay shows how a theorist whose work equips him to grapple with questions of racial injustice nonetheless evades them by constructing three sorts of boundaries: between members and nonmembers, between social critics and certain relations of power, and between the “core” of a people's experience and the brutalities of their history.
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Sluga, McKayla. "Art Film Writing in American Modernist Periodicals, 1910s–1930s." Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 14, no. 2 (December 2023): 159–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.2.0159.

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ABSTRACT This article connects periodical and film studies to present a history of film criticism in the United States. Through modernist periodicals such as The Seven Arts and The Soil, the article traces film writing’s evolution from scattered articles in the 1910s to the creation of Experimental Cinema by 1930. Rediscovering these early film writings in relation to Experimental Cinema decenters trade journals and newspapers to emphasize developments outside of mainstream print. It also clarifies cinema’s historical role in American progressives’ projects of modernism in the twentieth century by offering intellectual, political, and cultural insights into film’s appearance in modernist periodicals.
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Seybold, Matt. "Economics and American Literary Studies in the New Gilded Age, or Why Study the History of Bad Predictions and Worse Rationalizations?" American Literary History 31, no. 4 (2019): 587–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz041.

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Abstract This introduction to the special issue on Economics and American Literary Studies in The New Gilded Age traces an underexplored history of dissent within the discipline of economics through presidential addresses to the American Economic Association and writings by John Maynard Keynes. It acknowledges the “vexed history” of interdisciplinary engagement between economists and literature scholars, including a recent, halfhearted call for “narrative economics” from 2013 Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller. Seybold suggests that new brands of econo-literary criticism have risen to promise in the last decade and that contributors to this special issue demonstrate the importance of historicism to this subfield, despite its apparent presentist tendencies.
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Stachura, Paweł. "Anticipation and Divination of Technological Culture: Dialectic Images of the Internet in Emerson’s Nature." Polish Journal for American Studies, no. 10 (2016) (August 29, 2023): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.10/2016.09.

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The article presents certain aspects of the Internet (interface design, user behavior, advertising, codes of conduct) as new incarnations of the American pastoralism, defined in terms derived from literary criticism and history of American literature. The rationale of this procedure is provided in terms of “dialectic images,” which are old pieces of imagery that seem to anticipate subsequent technological and social developments. Of particular importance is the set of dialectical images derived from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, and the pastoral descriptions of nature derived from various American poets and fiction writers. Arguably, dialectic images of the Internet offer an opportunity for a better understanding of contemporary development of the Internet, and its possible future.
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Erber, Pedro. "Art and/or Revolution: The Matter of Painting in Postwar Japan." ARTMargins 2, no. 1 (February 2013): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00032.

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Japanese art critics of the 1950s perceived the locus of a new materialist aesthetics in the new trends of informal abstraction emanating from the United States and France. This revealed a stark contrast with the idea of individual freedom that informed North-American discourse on Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on the writings of Miyakawa Atsushi, Haryū Ichirō, and Segi Shinichi, this article explores the political significance of the question of matter in Japanese postwar art criticism and indicates its importance for the subsequent development of avant-garde art in 1960s Japan.
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Falk, Julia S. "Roman Jakobson and the history of Saussurean concepts in North American Linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 22, no. 3 (January 1, 1995): 335–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.22.3.04fal.

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Summary Leonard Bloomfield was the major force in the initial dissemination of Saussurean concepts in North America (Joseph 1989a, Koerner 1989), but his role was limited to his middle years from 1922 to 1933, and for some time thereafter American linguists paid little attention to Saussure’s Cours. In fact, studies on Saussure tend to move directly from Bloomfield to Noam Chomsky (e.g., Gadet 1989, Joseph 1990), with little discussion of the intervening quarter century in American linguistics. However, when Roman Jakobson arrived in New York in 1941, he brought with him a long record of commentary and criticism on Saussure’s ideas, and through his American teaching and publications, Jakobson became the next major source of attention to Saussure’s work. In this paper, I examine Jakobson’s complex positions on Saussure, with special attention to his first two decades in the United States. I then briefly consider Jakobson’s role in a third period of Saussurean concepts in the history of American linguistics, a period of revived interest that began in the late 1950s, engaging linguists from a diversity of theories and coinciding in the next decade with the republication of Jakobson’s European writings and with the rise of North American interest in the history of linguistics.
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Saldívar, Ramón. "Criticism on the Border and the Decolonization of Knowledge." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 327–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab078.

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Abstract Structures of hierarchy and domination are never represented in transborder literature as singular effects of social conditions. Instead, they arise from multiple historical factors. Unlike writings that assume a racial binary, literature on the border does not posit one kind of domination and hierarchy as barriers to creating a just, democratic society. In recent literary works from the transborder regions, the yearning for justice within the layered social systems on the border is central, even while its attainment through social transformation remains an attenuated hope. This essay outlines a paradigm for studying the relations between global and local areas of study, such as those in the transborder regions of the Americas. Invoking models for literary critical work in a globally bordered form, it posits the need for a larger view based on how knowledge is generated and human resources used, while acknowledging the reservoir of knowledge that exists beyond Europe and the US in the Global South. The function of the rebordered criticism described here is to respond to issues raised by African philosopher Achille Mbembe, Latin American sociologist Enrique Dussel and other decolonial thinkers concerning different ways of conceiving the achievement of an antiracist and socially just future. In the face of [the] compromised hopefulness [for justice on the border], what kind of criticism could best [respond to and] … help enact projects of social change?
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Levine, Robert S. "“That Grim Sphinx”: Literary Historicism and Tourgée’s Toinette Novels." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 224–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab087.

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Abstract [W]e need to continue the key conversation in the field about how to revitalize literary historicism. Matthew Arnold and Tourgée can help to contribute to this conversation. This essay puts the Reconstruction novelist Albion Tourgée in dialogue with the English critic Matthew Arnold in an effort to revitalize the role of literary historicism in American literary studies today. Specifically, it offers a case study of Tourgée’s three Toinette novels (1874, 1879, 1881), all relatively neglected, to make the case for the importance of continuing to study nineteenth-century American literature at least in part in a national frame, but one that takes account of the complexities of temporality. One of the functions of American literary criticism at the present time should be the continued recuperation of lost or neglected voices like Tourgée’s. A more pronounced attention to literary historicism, as the writings of both Tourgée and Arnold suggest, does not mean having to reproduce the exceptionalism and blindnesses of the past or present, especially if critics reject a rigid historical contextualism.
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de Souza, Leonardo Cruz, Antônio Lúcio Teixeira, Guilherme Nogueira M. de Oliveira, Paulo Caramelli, and Francisco Cardoso. "A critique of phrenology in Moby-Dick." Neurology 89, no. 10 (September 4, 2017): 1087–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000004335.

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Phrenology has a fascinating, although controversial, place in the history of localizationism of brain and mental functions. The 2 main proponents of phrenology were 2 German-speaking doctors, Joseph Gall (1758–1828) and Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832). According to their theory, a careful examination of skull morphology could disclose personality characters. Phrenology was initially restricted to medical circles and then diffused outside scientific societies, reaching nonscientific audiences in Europe and North America. Phrenology deeply penetrated popular culture in the 19th century and its tenets can be observed in British and American literature. Here we analyze the presence of phrenologic concepts in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville (1819–1891), one of the most prominent American writers. In his masterpiece, he demonstrates that he was familiarized with Gall and Spurzheim's writings, but referred to their theory as “semi-science” and “a passing fable.” Of note, Melville's fine irony against phrenology is present in his attempt to perform a phrenologic and physiognomic examination of The Whale. Thus, Moby-Dick illustrates the diffusion of phrenology in Western culture, but may also reflect Melville's skepticism and criticism toward its main precepts.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Gays' writings, american – history and criticism"

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Go, King-fan, and 吳景勛. "Burdens of the past: a study of Chinese-American writings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37642832.

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Leung, Yiu Hung Humphrey. "Bona to vada your dolly old eke! : a case study of the differences of English use between homosexual and heterosexual people in written discourse." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2002. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/390.

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Haslam, Jason W. (Jason William) 1971. "Writing from the pen : a study of selected works from American prisons." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23842.

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This essay closely studies several works written by American male writers--either while the author was in an American prison, or shortly after he was released. The first works studied, from the nineteenth century, introduce the themes and questions for the later discussion of the other works, all of which are taken from the twentieth century. A central focus of the essay is on the process by which all of the authors studied attempt a textual reversal of the positions of reader and author. In each of the works, the reader, generally seen as a member of 'outside' society, is portrayed as a representative of the imprisoning society. Thus, the textual confrontation is between a prisoner/author and a warden/reader; and the subsequent reversal that takes place through the medium of the text places the reader in the position of being a prisoner, with the author becoming the prison-authority, or warden. This reversal is used by the authors examined as means or attempt at freeing themselves from both the defining and imprisoning texts of society, as well as from the actual prison where the author finds himself. The writing of the prison-text, therefore, is a verbal act intimately associated with the gaining of various forms of at least visionary freedom.
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Muller, Adam Patrick Dooley. "The importance of being elsewhere : modernist expatriation and the American literary tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35022.

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My dissertation concentrates on Americans writing at home and abroad in the inter-war period and contextualizes their expatriation with reference to debates between modernist critics over the nature and substance of the American literary tradition. I clarify the definitions of terms like "exile," "emigrant," and "expatriate" central to my analysis but muddied by years of misuse. I do so with reference to coercion, a concept which I develop in accordance with recent work in the philosophy of action. At the same time I make the case for a realist, causalist hermeneutics. Next I explore the aesthetic corollary to my argument with reference to the fiction, autobiography, and literary criticism of Gertrude Stein. I argue that Stein's decision to leave America must be viewed as uncoerced, and as therefore indicative of her emigration to France. Viewed as an emigrant, and not as an exile or expatriate, Stein can be shown to manifest tendencies in her work (towards subjectivity, abstraction, and retrospection) which reflect her dissociation from, rather than ongoing connection to, America. Lastly, I look closely at the work of Van Wyck Brooks and Harold Stearns, two modernist literary and culture critics whose writings on expatriation demonstrably influenced generations of subsequent biographers and intellectual historians. Steams and Brooks can be counted among the most articulate and vociferous proponents of literary change in America, and can be situated at the poles of a vigorous debate within the literary community of their day over whether American letters were better served from within or without the United States. I contrast Brooks' civic humanism with Steams' rugged individualism and identify in the debate over expatriation a powerful analogue to ongoing debates in literary and cultural critical circles referred to as "the culture wars."
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Reeher, Jennifer M. "“The Despair of the Physician”: Centering Patient Narrative through the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523435451243392.

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Caucutt, Jason Steven. "The intermediate decade : male homosexuality in American popular fiction of the 1930's." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1564.

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In the short period between 1931 and 1934 a flurry of gay-themed novels was published which were blatantly marketed as novels exploring the "twilight world" of homosexual men. In the subsequent seventy-odd years these titles have received very little attention, being entirely forgotten or sometimes erroneously grouped with postwar gay pulp fiction. Furthermore, almost without exception, the 1930s novels portray a concept of homosexuality which does not quite fit into the postwar view of sexual orientation or gay isolation. Section I explores how titles like A Scarlet Pansy, Strange Brother, and Twilight Men, all show a view of homosexuality that was immersed in gender norms and class differences much more than psychology or the modern concept of sexual orientation. In many cases, masculine or feminine behavior denotes status more than does the actual gender of one's sexual partner. Words like "homosexual" and "heterosexual" had a "highly clinical" sound to most 1930s ears (to quote a character in Better Angel). That is not to say, however, the readership of these novels were unfamiliar with "the love that dare not speak its name". In fact, it seems many novels took for granted their readers' knowledge of urban, working-class "fairy culture" and were seeking either to shock or, conversely, elicit sympathy by depicting non-flamboyant protagonists as well as stock pansies. In contrast to postwar treatments, the novels of the 1930s never depict gay men as existing in confused isolation. Section II explores how the novels oflen treat the gay shadow world as an elite, artistic club-albeit one filled with sinful excesses and potential dangers. Finally, after 1935 the tone of gay-themed novels changed abruptly, as the public's "pansy craze" abated. Older notions of"gender inversion" and ''Nature's intermediates" faded and homosexuality became more associated with psychological affliction with societal implications
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Sneed, Roger Alex. "Virtually invisible the representations of homosexuality in black theology, African American cultural criticism, and black gay men's literature /." Diss., 2006. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-03292006-104642/.

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"Plurality of identity and culture: the wanderer motif in contemporary Chinese and Chinese-American writings." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5888914.

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by Katy Wai Kwan Ho.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-153).
Abstract --- p.i
Acknowledgments --- p.iii
Chapter Chapter One: --- The Chinese Wanderers in the United States --- p.1
Chapter Chapter Two: --- Cultural Fragmentation and Psychical Split: The Wanderer in Dis-placement --- p.35
Chapter Chapter Three: --- Chinese (Ethnic)-American (Cultural) Hybridity --- p.75
Chapter Chapter Four: --- "The ""Unhomed"" and Multiplicities of Identity" --- p.98
Chapter Chapter Five: --- The Images of Wandering --- p.130
Bibliography --- p.146
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Courau, Rogier Philippe. "States of nomadism, conditions of diaspora : studies in writing between South Africa and the United States, 1913-1936." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/162.

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Using the theoretical idea of ‘writing between’ to describe the condition of the travelling subject, this study attempts to chart some of the literary, intellectual and cultural connections that exist(ed) between black South African intellectuals and writers, and the experiences of their African- American counterparts in their common movements towards civil liberty, enfranchisement and valorised consciousness. The years 1913-1936 saw important historical events taking place in the United States, South Africa and the world – and their effects on the peoples of the African diaspora were signficant. Such events elicited unified black diasporic responses to colonial hegemony. Using theories of transatlantic/transnational cultural negotiation as a starting point, conceptualisations that map out, and give context to, the connections between transcontinental black experiences of slavery and subjugation, this study seeks to re-envisage such black South African and African-American intellectual discourses through reading them anew. These texts have been re-covered and re-situated, are both published and unpublished, and engage the notion of travel and the instability of transatlantic voyaging in the liminal state of ‘writing between’. With my particular regional focus, I explore the cultural and intellectual politics of these diasporic interrelations in the form of case studies of texts from several genres, including fiction and autobiography. They are: the travel writings of Xhosa intellectual, DDT Jabavu, with a focus on his 1913 journey to the United States; an analysis of Ethelreda Lewis’s novel, Wild Deer (1933), which imagines the visit of an African-American musician, Paul Robeson-like figure to South Africa; and Eslanda Goode Robeson’s representation of her African Journey (1945) to the country in 1936, and the traveller’s gaze as expressed through the ethnographic imagination, or the anthropological ‘eye’ in the text.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
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Hernandez, Lisa Justine. "Chicana feminist voices : in search of Chicana lesbian voices from Aztlán to cyberspace." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/10529.

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Books on the topic "Gays' writings, american – history and criticism"

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Clum, John M. Acting gay: Male homosexuality in modern drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

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Clum, John M. Acting gay: Male homosexuality in modern drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

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K, Martin Robert. The homosexual tradition in American poetry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998.

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Herrmann, Anne. Queering the moderns: Poses/portraits/performances. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

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Harvey, Keith. Intercultural movements: American gay in French translation. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Pub., 2003.

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Joseph, Bristow, ed. Sexual sameness: Textual differences in lesbian and gay writing. London: Routledge, 1992.

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Edwards, Jason. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. New York: Routledge, 2008.

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G, Pearson Wendy, Hollinger Veronica, and Gordon Joan 1947-, eds. Queer universes: Sexualities in science fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008.

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G, Pearson Wendy, Hollinger Veronica, and Gordon Joan 1947-, eds. Queer universes: Sexualities in science fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008.

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Bergman, David. Gaiety transfigured: Gay self-representation in American literature. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

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Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. "Whitman and the Gay American Ethos." In A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, 121–51. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195120813.003.0005.

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Abstract Historical critics have gradually come to see that Walt Whit ‘s striking images of the ‘‘body electric”-the human arged with sexual energy, open to entreaties of companions male and female, driven by consuming desire, containing the sources of psychological, as well as political, power-were not exclusively the product and property of an inspired individual but were “socially constructed.” During Whitman’s time, the sexualized body became an increasing source of both anxiety and fascination, fully acknowledged and explicitly voiced in medical writings, social purity pamphlets, self-help books, and popular science, as well as pulp fiction, pornography, and under ground confessional literature. Only a literary history focused entirely on the literature of parlors, schoolrooms, and highbrow literary journals could view Whitman’s “poetry of the body” as unalloyed in its originality.
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Temkin, Sefton D. "Reform Moves On: The Pittsburgh Platform." In Creating American Reform Judaism, 286–94. Liverpool University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774457.003.0045.

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This chapter considers the event which thrust Wise unequivocally into the camp of Reform — namely the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885. Reference to Wise’s own writings fails to establish a rationale for his acceptance of the Pittsburgh Platform. The fact that he identified himself with another point of view is important for his own name. History accords him pre-eminence among the builders of American Reform; the Pittsburgh Platform stamped its identity on American Reform as did no other statement; and Wise’s college became the one rabbinical seminary in the world where the Bible criticism associated with the names of Kuenen and Julius Wellhausen was accepted to full effect. How Wise came to take this contradictory position is a tantalizing question which this chapter addresses.
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Sommer, Tim. "Usable Pasts: Anglo-American Literature and the Authority of Tradition." In Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority, 69–100. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474491945.003.0003.

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This chapter analyses how discussions about race and nationhood surfaced in nineteenth-century British and American literary criticism and literary historiography. It discusses Carlyle’s and Emerson’s writings about the relationship between literature and nationality and argues that, drawing on a handful of near-contemporary German and French authors, they positioned themselves at the crossroads of cultural nationalism and literary cosmopolitanism. The second half of the chapter explains how Carlyle and Emerson conceptualised continuity and change in literary history and highlights the role of Romantic expressivism in their nation-centred poetics. The two developed conflicting accounts of English literary history: where Carlyle’s narrative emphasised the past achievement and future global dominance of metropolitan writing, Emerson tended to invest in the authority of the English canon to locate the future of a specifically Anglo-American tradition in the cultural periphery.
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Erkkila, Betsy. "Race, Black Women Writing, and Gwendolyn Brooks." In The Wicked Sisters, 185–234. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072112.003.0006.

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Abstract “Most of what passes for culture and thought on the North American continent” has enforced the nonexistence of black women, write Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith in the introduction to their important anthology All the Women Are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (xvii). For black women writers, the marketplace economics of last hired, first fired has translated into a literary economics of exclusion and absence. From such early works of feminist literary criticism as Patricia Meyer Spacks’s The Female Imagination and Ellen Moers’s Literary Women: The Great Writers in the mid-seventies to recent works such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, the writings of women of color have been given little or no place in white feminist revivals, revisions, and re-readings of women’s literary history. Women of color are subsumed within the category “Woman,” and the writings of predominantly white middle-class women are generalized and universalized into the female imagination, the literary woman, and the female literary tradition. In response to the invisibility of black women in white male and female literary criticism as well as in black male criticism, black feminist critics have called for a black feminist critical perspective that would be fully cognizant of the interlocking systems of race, class, and gender in the lives and writings of black women.
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