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“Her symbol was civil war”: Recovering Muriel Rukeyser’s Lost Spanish Civil War Novel
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The Savage Coast as discussed by the authors is a lost, unpublished novel by the American poet Muriel Rukeyser, who traveled to Spain to report on the People's Olympiad, an alternative to Hitler's Berlin games.Abstract:
In 1936, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Spain to report on the People’s Olympiad, an alternative to Hitler’s Berlin games. Instead, she witnessed the outbreak of civil war. Rukeyser’s writings on her experience span more than forty years, including a lost, unpublished novel, Savage Coast . Recently recovered from her archive, the novel is significant because it hybridizes the forms of aesthetic and political modernism and provides a more complex understanding of how women modernists write about politics and history through modes that both interrogate and transform the boundaries of genre.read more
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
TL;DR: Holquist as mentioned in this paper discusses the history of realism and the role of the Bildungsroman in the development of the novel in Linguistics, philosophy, and the human sciences.
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"'Whose fires would not stop': Muriel Rukeyser and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1976"
TL;DR: In the same year that Leni Riefenstahl appeared, all legs, skiing across the cover of Time magazine, an eerie premonition of her voluptuous propaganda film Olympia about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Jewish American left-wing poet Muriel Rukeyser was sent to report on the Olimpiada Popular, scheduled to take place July 19-26, 1936, in Barcelona, Spain this article.
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Speech genres and other late essays
TL;DR: Holquist as mentioned in this paper discusses the history of realism and the role of the Bildungsroman in the development of the novel in Linguistics, philosophy, and the human sciences.
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
TL;DR: Holquist as mentioned in this paper discusses the history of realism and the role of the Bildungsroman in the development of the novel in Linguistics, philosophy, and the human sciences.
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The gender of modernity
TL;DR: The art of perversion: Female Sadists and male Cyborgs Afterword: Rewriting the Mordern Notes Index as mentioned in this paper The Art of Perversion is a popular topic in pornography.