The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences

The Sublime

In the film Independence Day (Emmerich, 1996), hundreds of gigantic spaceships invaded the earth, their shadows slowly blocked out the light in the cities over which they flew and filled the cinema screen with darkness. A group of humans gathered on top of a skyscraper over which one of the space ships hovered, in the hope that contact with an alien civilisation would promote the dawn of a new ...

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...

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...