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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 ...
The "supramundane": The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson.
(1998)
Failure of understanding is the basis of Kant's theory of the sublime. As shown in the Critique of Judgement, this painful experience allows insight into the sublime. The failure delineates the limitations of our capacity ...
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 ...
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 ...