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Theme (narrative)
About: Theme (narrative) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 159511 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theme.
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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: Hobson as discussed by the authors examines the relationship of new writers to their literary predecessors and traces the continuity of certain attitutes, fictional approaches, and even values that informed Southern writing during its earlier flowering in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Abstract: In this study, Fred Hobson offers an examination of some of the prominent new figures in Southern fiction. While he discovers no shortage of talent, he does find conflicting attitudes toward the South and the contemporary world. Especially concerned with the relationship of these new writers to their literary predecessors, he traces the continuity - or lack of continuity - of certain attitutes, fictional approaches, and even values that informed Southern writing during its earlier flowering in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Looking at novels by Bobbie Ann Mason, Lee Smith, and Barry Hannah, Hobson focuses chiefly on the differing ways these writers have responded to the incursion of commercial culture - television, rock, music, and theme parks - into a society long sustained by family, religion, tradition, and community.
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TL;DR: Turner's challenge remains unanswered and his stimulating proposal is only partly and unsystematically explored by as discussed by the authors, who suggest some of the "fruitful results" awaiting comparative studies of settlement of regions outside the United States and to examine several such comparisons in Australian and Canadian history.
Abstract: "IF, WITH OUR OWN METHODS of the occupation of the frontier," announced Frederick Jackson Turner in 1904, "we should compare those of other countries which have dealt with similar problems--such as Russia, Germany, and the English colonies in Canada, Australia, and Africa-we should undoubtedly find most fruitful results."' Fifty years later, Turner's challenge remains unanswered and his stimulating proposal is only partly and unsystematically explored.' My purpose here is to suggest some of the "fruitful results" awaiting comparative studies of settlement of regions outside the United States and to examine several such comparisons in Australian and Canadian history. "History is the art of comparison," wrote the constitutional historian F. W. Maitland. Through its use we can better evaluate our own national development, judging more accurately our generalizations and testing them against the straight-edge of other experiences. Much historical writing, dominated by a search for a synthesizing theme, has examined frontier settlement within a parochial framework. With such
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01 Dec 1994
TL;DR: The African crisis is a recurrent theme in all discourse on Africa in the 1990s, in stark contrast with the optimism of the first decades of independence as mentioned in this paper, and this discussion paper questions the very d...
Abstract: The African crisis is a recurrent theme in all discourse on Africa in the 1990s, in stark contrast with the optimism of the first decades of independence. This discussion paper questions the very d ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a bibliography of 200 critical race theory articles divided into ten themes, including women of color, critical race feminism, intersectional racism, and intersectionality.
Abstract: Updates original 1993 bibliography of 200 critical race theory articles divided into ten themes. Responding to a substantial increase in writing by and about women of color, it contains an additional theme — critical race feminism. Comments on quality and quantity of new work, an upsurge in criticism of the movement, how and whether it is assimilating into mainstream legal scholarship, and then lays out four scenarios for its future.
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TL;DR: It is amazing that this question of Jesus, which has been echoing down the corridors of history for two thousand years, has lost nothing of its relevance and enigma at two recent International missiological consultations.
Abstract: It is amazing that this question of Jesus, which has been echoing down the corridors of history for two thousand years, has lost nothing of its relevance and enigma! At two recent International missiological consultations this question was the theme around which the whole conference revolved.
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