The Crosstemporal Conundrum: Indigenous Specters in Antebellum American Literature

Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines

I chronicle the American magazine industry from its inception in 1741 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 and explain how the industry came to take on a form that, in large part, persists to the present day. My analysis highlights the cultural factors that shaped magazines: on the supply side, the social construction of a market-based conception of authorship and a supporting legal framewo...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Protestants in an age of science. The Baconian ideal and antebellum American religious thought

The cultural debt of America to Scotland has proved a rich source for historians to mine. In Protestants in an age ofscience Theodore Bozeman has opened yet another seam and demonstrated how, for the Old School Presbyterians, Scottish thought provided a framework that stabilized for them the threatening intellectual turbulence of antebellum America. He reveals how the Common Sense philosophy se...

the american dream in three plays by eugene oneill, tennessee williams, and lorraine hansberry

این مطالعه به نقد و بررسی مفهوم اسطوره ی رویای امریکایی در سه نمایشنامه ی قرن بیستم امریکایی می پردازد، که این نمایشنامه ها عبارتند از: the iceman cometh (مرد یخین می آید) نوشته ی یوجین اونیل، 1940؛ desirea streetcar named (اتوبوسی به نام هوس) نوشته ی تنسی ویلیامز، 1947؛ و in the sun raisin a (انگور خشکیده در آفتاب) ، نوشته ی لورین هنزبری، 1958. هدف از این بررسی، ابتدا شناخت مفهوم رویای امری...

THE CONUNDRUM OF EUTHANASIA