Precocious And Prodigious Children And Their Environment In 20th Century American Literature

Author : Alexandra Berlina
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638831116

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Precocious and Prodigious Children and Their Environment in 20th Century American Literature by Alexandra Berlina Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", course: Hauptseminar "20th Century American Short Stories", language: English, abstract: Preface: Defining the topic In literature, just like in reality, gifted children may differ from each other in every aspect except for the very existence of a special talent or very high intelligence. Still, both in life and fiction, certain types can be traced. The terms child prodigy or wunderkind evoke a child which has developed outstanding skills in a certain area like chess (cp. the protagonist of Amy Tan′s short story "Rules of the Game" or Luzhin in Nabokov′s "Luzhin′s defence"; in reality, almost every grandmaster demonstrated exceptional skills in early childhood, the most prominent example being probably Capablanca), music (McCullers′ wunderkind in the short story of the same title does not live up to a comparison with Mozart, but is also considered a piano prodigy as a child), or any other art or science. In the study "Child Prodigies and Exceptionally Early Achievers", the psychologist John Radford practically equates the former with the latter, despite the conjunction in the title. The Wikipedia offers a similar definition: "A child prodigy, or simply prodigy, is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. One possible definition of a prodigy is a person who, by the age of 10, displays expert proficiency in a field usually only undertaken by adults"1. As this paper intends to study prodigious children in American literature, the best source for a definitions seems to be the leading American dictionary. However, Webster′s2 is extremely vague: "a person or thing of remarkable qualities or powers: an infant prodigy"is listed as a second possibility after an even more general reference to everything extraordinary. Merriam- Webster OnLine defines a prodigy in point 2b as "a highly talented child or youth"3. Un

Author : Warren French
Publisher : Springer
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349164165

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Twentieth Century American Literature by Warren French Pdf

Author : Paul C. Gutjahr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190258849

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The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America by Paul C. Gutjahr Pdf

Early Americans have long been considered A People of the Book Because the nickname was coined primarily to invoke close associations between Americans and the Bible, it is easy to overlook the central fact that it was a book-not a geographic location, a monarch, or even a shared language-that has served as a cornerstone in countless investigations into the formation and fragmentation of early American culture. Few books can lay claim to such powers of civilization-altering influence. Among those which can are sacred books, and for Americans principal among such books stands the Bible. This Handbook is designed to address a noticeable void in resources focused on analyzing the Bible in America in various historical moments and in relationship to specific institutions and cultural expressions. It takes seriously the fact that the Bible is both a physical object that has exercised considerable totemic power, as well as a text with a powerful intellectual design that has inspired everything from national religious and educational practices to a wide spectrum of artistic endeavors to our nation's politics and foreign policy. This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview--rich with bibliographic resources--to those interested in the Bible's role in American cultural formation.

Author : Karen L. Kilcup
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820358604

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Stronger, Truer, Bolder by Karen L. Kilcup Pdf

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)— and many not so famous—wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to children’s periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century’s huge social and cultural changes. Appreciating America’s unique natural wonders dovetailed with children’s growth as citizens, but children’s journals often exceeded a pedagogical purpose, intending also to entertain and delight. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative and mostly white, middle-class, and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms. Covering a period that initially regarded children’s natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America’s nineteenth century emergence as an industrial power. Karen L. Kilcup shows how children’s literature mirrored those changes in various ways. In its earliest incarnations, it taught children (and their parents) facts about the natural world and about proper behavior vis-à-vis both human and nonhuman others. More significantly, as periodical writing for children advanced, this literature increasingly promoted children’s environmental agency and envisioned their potential influence on concerns ranging from animal rights and interspecies equity to conservation and environmental justice. Such understanding of and engagement with nature not only propelled children toward ethical adulthood but also formed a foundation for responsible American citizenship.

Author : Todd Frye
Publisher : Todd Frye
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780989135450

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Marvelous Mythology by Todd Frye Pdf

The world of the Marvel Comics superheroes began in 1961 thanks to talented creators such as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others. Over time, their work became more than just a collection of comic book stories for kids; the characters, and the fictional universe they inhabited, evolved into a sophisticated series of inter-connected tales that would entertain millions of readers and movie-goers for decades. This is the story of how that unique universe was created: a realm of monsters, gods, aliens, robots, sorcerers, hyper-strong men and beguiling women - a world of fantasy filled with incredible wonders and unimaginable terrors. Step out of the ordinary world and into this Marvelous Mythology.

Author : George Woodcock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349170661

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Twentieth Century Fiction by George Woodcock Pdf

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : UOM:39015046885318

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Chronology of Twentieth-century History by Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168

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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two by Philip A. Greasley Pdf

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043244

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Justus Nieland
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN : 9780252075469

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Feeling Modern by Justus Nieland Pdf

A new look at modernism's relationship to human feeling and the public sphere

Author : Myra Mendible
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253019868

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American Shame by Myra Mendible Pdf

Essays examining the role of shame as an American cultural practice and how public shaming enforces conformity and group coherence. On any given day in America’s news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America’s discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors. “An eclectic anthology, it offers the readers more than one argument and perspective, which makes the volume itself lively and rich.” —Ron Scapp, coeditor of Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality

Author : Michael A. Bryson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813921723

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Visions of the Land by Michael A. Bryson Pdf

The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119277999

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leroy Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0820319872

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A Clashing of the Soul by Leroy Davis Pdf

John Hope (1868-1936), the first African American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, was one of the most distinguished in the pantheon of early-twentieth-century black educators. Born of a mixed-race union in Augusta, Georgia, shortly after the Civil War, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public and private education, adequate housing and health care, job opportunities, and civil rights that never wavered. Hope became to black college education what Booker T. Washington was to black industrial education. Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader. Along with his good friend W. E. B. Du Bois, Hope was at the forefront of the radical faction of black leaders in the early twentieth century, but he found himself taking more moderate stances in order to obtain philanthropic funds for black higher education. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated society.

Author : Noel Perrin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1584653523

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A Child's Delight by Noel Perrin Pdf

An appealing guide to 33 neglected gems in children's literature by the author of A Reader's Delight.