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Narrative
NARRATIVE. Although the study of narrative goes back as far as Aristotle's Poetics, narrative theory emerged as a distinct field of inquiry only in the second half of the twentieth century. At that point, work on the theory of the novel intersected with structuralism's project of writing the... Read more |
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Remus
Remus ♂ According to ancient Roman tradition, the name of the brother of Romulus, co-founder with him of the city of Rome. In America this rare given name is associated particularly with the ‘Uncle Remus’ stories of Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908), Uncle Remus being... Read more |
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Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta Margarthe von Trotta (born 1942) is largely regarded as Germany's foremost female filmmaker. Associated with the movement known as the New German Cinema, which also includes directors Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and von Trotta's former husband... Read more |
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Rolando Hinojosa
Rolando Hinojosa Rolando Hinojosa is one of the most prolific and well-respected Hispanic novelists in the United States. Not only has he created memorable Mexican American and white characters, but he has completely populated a fictional county in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas through his... Read more |
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The Celestial Railroad
Celestial Railroad, The, allegorical tale by Hawthorne, published in 1843 and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse (1846).The narrator travels the way of Christian in Pilgrim's Progress, from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Instead of going afoot, he finds that modern achievement has... Read more |
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George Wilkins Kendall
George Wilkins Kendall 1809-67, American journalist, b. near Amherst, N.H. After a succession of journalistic jobs, he was a partner in founding (1837) the New Orleans Picayune. In 1841 he joined the disastrous Texan expedition to Santa Fe, sponsored by the president of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar, in... Read more |
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth c.1797-1883, American abolitionist, a freed slave, originally called Isabella, b. Ulster co., N.Y. Convinced that she heard heavenly voices, she left (1843) domestic employment in New York City, adopted the name Sojourner Truth, and traveled throughout the North preaching... Read more |
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Harry Mathews
Mathews, Harry (1930– ),New York City‐born author, long expatriated in France, whose esoteric, experimental works include short novels concerned with curiously convoluted quests. The Conversions (1962) presents a person who can inherit a huge fortune if able to answer three recondite... Read more |
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