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Modernism's Others explores how a transformation in traditions of realist representation laid the grounds for the emergence of the multicultural and avant-garde constructions of modern American literature. At the heart of this investigation is the way the "right to privacy" articulated at the end of the nineteenth century reshaped visions of separate spheres, differential rights, and public duties. It examines a moment at which writers placed, at the heart of literature's ethics and its epistemology, the right to not be known. Tracing the career of this idea from its roots in late nineteenth-century realism through the emerging canons of modernist and multicultural literature, this project explores the interplay between new categories of legal right, new categories of social analysis, and new measures of literary value. "Selling somebody out" slouches into American literature, more or less, on the heels of Bartley Hubbard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article critiques the book "The Ambassadors," by Henry James and discusses psychoanalytical themes of the novel. The author discusses oedipal imagery as it influences the characters' relationships with the U.S. and Europe. He also comments on James' hermeneutics and literary style. Other topics explored include puritanical repressiveness, realist narrative conventions, and the work's connection to the Hebrew prophet Moses.

The article critiques the woks of the modern realist women authors Dorothy Canfield and Willa Cather, as well as their style and intended audience. The author comments on the highbrow and middlebrow audience and the literary relationship between Canfield and Cather's works. She describes similar scenes and characters, implying that Cather was strongly influenced by Canfield. Other topics explored include the relevance of the writers, hierarchic implications of readership, and engagement with history.

The article focuses on fiction from the 1960s to 2010. Major works in American fiction of the past four decades were attributed to Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison. Technical innovation and new thematic depth dominated the period. Using Pynchon and Morrison as standards, scholars in previous years have traced the dialectic from mannered realism to self-consciously antimimetic experimentation and back to a realism more comfortable with interrogations of its ethical and aesthetic base.

The article discusses women writers in the late 19th century and the rise of realism in "Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine." The article addresses the novels "A Modern Instance," by W.D. Howells and "Through One Administration," by Frances Hodgson Burnett, both which were serialized in the magazine from December 1881 to October 1882. Both novels dealt with unhappy marriages. The article talks about Burnett's reputation as a children's author. How the male-dominated critical establishment of the 20th century decreased the popularity of Burnett's work is also discussed.

The article discusses the book "A Hazard of New Frontiers," which is a realist novel by William Dean Howells, and how it relates to 19th-century American law and literature. The state's authority in relation to social and economic coercion of the public, the diffusion of political agency, the appropriate boundaries between the state and the individual, the book "The Novel and the Police" by D. A. Miller, the book "The Unwritten Constitution of the United States" by Christopher G. Tiedeman, and laissez-faire legal arguments in U.S. Supreme Court cases concerning constitutional law are discussed.

The article focuses on the Voices of American Teens project in which seventh grade reading students were exposed to multicultural short stories and texts representing a variety of perspectives. Students are made to hear short stories through an audio tape, after which the students present their views which are recorded by the teacher. It is stated that by reading short stories based on teenagers of different cultures, students come across several new words, legends, and everyday situations unlike their own. It is suggested that the text selected for students should portray realism, and the characters should be real in their physical appearance, language, behavior, attitudes, and beliefs.

The article discusses the implications of literary writing style of American author David Foster Wallace. According to the author, Wallace's writing styles stimulate divergent responses from readers that allow him to experience a different level of notoriety from his fellow authors because of the commercial success of all his works. In addition, the author notes that Wallace authorship technique depicts postmodernism and aesthetic objects that represent a true meaning of self actualization and appositional relation. It also cites Wallace's literary works as well as the relevance of its characters on the modern society.

This article offers a general discussion of the concept of universals in linguistics (and in general), spelling out different ways of understanding claims to universality and connecting such claims to other (often familiar) related distinctions, terminology and approaches such as competence and performance or I-language and E-language, evolutionary explanations, deep and surface universals, rationalism and empiricism or nature and nurture, realism and nominalism, parametric variation and tendencies, formal and functional approaches, properties or explanations, historical explanations, modularity and structural analogy, so-called meta patterns and minimalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism that compares the plays "Death of a Salesman," by Arthur Miller, "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill, and "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams is presented. The figure of the salesman in American culture is explored with reference to the characters of Willy Loman, Hickey, and Stanley Kowalski. The author explores realist elements in all three texts.

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The article discusses the contributions of American author William Dean Howells to the development of literary realism in the U.S. It cites that Howells developed his own ideas about realism in the "Atlantic Monthly" periodical that were reflected in both his literary works and his reviews. It states that the support of realism by Howells can be seen in the materials he elected to publish. Moreover, it examines the works of Howells in the Atlantic concerning his contributions in the development of American realism.

Focuses on the story behind the development of American fiction in the nineteenth century and the polarization of critics over the virtues of realism versus romanticism or idealism and the novel versus the romance. Significance of the term `idealism' in the understanding of the development of literary art; Arguments surrounding the realism/idealism controversy.