LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern

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ABSTRACT This article examines the fiction of the Self-Reliance Literary Group as a form of ethical narrative in which modern subjectivity is constituted through processes of moral choice rather than through the affirmation of predefined ethical norms. Moving beyond approaches that interpret these works primarily in terms of individual liberation or social reform, the study argues that the ethical significance of th…

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The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written by Paul Fussell and published in 1975 by Oxford University Press. It describes the literary responses by English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench warfare. Fussell describes how the collective experience of the "Great War" was correlated with, and to some extent underlain by, an enduring shift in …

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Explores new directions in modern Japanese literature

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*Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the se…

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948