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Reddening the hearts and minds: The frontier myth and American identity in Vietnam War literature.
(1999)
I provide many examples from films and novels to illustrate a pattern resulting from the Vietnam War's threat to the frontier myth. The frontier myth is re-established in Vietnam War literature through a roughly chronological ...
Hacking away with an ax: Henry Miller and modernity.
(1999)
Miller attacks his world as fundamentally flawed. The world he critiques, however, still exists. The shape it was taking in the early part of the century has only become clearer with an urban crisis and mass lay-offs of ...
"Our obligation to memory": Home environment, public service and feminism in the works of Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Willa Cather.
(1999)
Some turn-of-the-century American women writers such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather use various ideas of memory and domesticity around which to build a "conservative" feminist theory through which to draw women's traditions ...
On the use of significant words: Mary Wollstonecraft's contribution to the modern rhetorical tradition.
(1999)
This study addresses the absence of female rhetors and theorists from the modern rhetorical tradition as a minor tradition within the western tradition as exemplified within Bizzell and Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition ...