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Songs of America: A Review of John Berryman’s Public Vision by Philip Coleman (Dublin: UCD P, 2014) 菲利普·科尔曼的《美国之歌：约翰·贝里曼的公共视野评论》（都柏林：UCD P，2014）

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-29 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0026

A. Warso, Wit Píetrzak, Katarzyna Ojrzyńska

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Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs 吉姆·克劳南方白人男性至上的魔法圈之外：弗吉尼亚·福斯特·杜尔回忆录

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-29 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0018

Susana María Jiménez-Placer

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”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine “人民的心在正确的地方”:爱尔兰饥荒期间美国新闻界和美国私人慈善机构

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/TEXMAT-2018-0010

Paweł Hamera

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Transvestite M(other) in the Canadian North: Isobel Gunn by Audrey Thomas 加拿大北部的异装癖者M(其他):奥黛丽·托马斯的伊泽贝尔·冈恩

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0025

Dorota Filipczak

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Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler 后修正主义：冲突（Ir）解决与凯文·麦卡锡《皮勒》中的歧义限度

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0001

M. Mcateer

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The Conflicting Traditions of Portraying the Jewish People in the Chester Mystery Cycle 《切斯特之谜》中犹太人形象的冲突传统

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0011

J. Matyjaszczyk

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The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality 超现实的捕捉:约塞连与超现实的思想变迁

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0023

Abdolali Yazdizadeh

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Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative 墨西哥村:Josefina Niggli的过境叙述

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/TEXMAT-2018-0021

Jadwiga Maszewska

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“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography “美国上镜最多的谷仓”:美国艺术和摄影中崇高的拟像

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0022

David Allen, Agata Handley

{"title":"“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography","authors":"David Allen, Agata Handley","doi":"10.1515/texmat-2018-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2018-0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo, two characters visit a famous barn, described as the “most photographed barn in America” alongside hordes of picture-taking tourists. One of them complains the barn has become a simulacrum, so that “no one sees” the actual barn anymore. This implies that there was once a real barn, which has been lost in the “virtual” image. This is in line with Plato’s concept of the simulacrum as a false or “corrupt” copy, which has lost all connection with the “original.” Plotinus, however, offered a different definition: the simulacrum distorts reality in order to reveal the invisible, the Ideal. There is a real building which has been called “the most photographed barn in America”: the Thomas Moulton Barn in the Grand Teton National Park. The location—barn in the foreground, mountain range towering over it—forms a striking visual composition. But the site is not only famous because it is photogenic. Images of the barn in part evoke the heroic struggles of pioneers living on the frontier. They also draw on the tradition of the “American sublime.” Ralph Waldo Emerson defined the sublime as “the influx of the Divine mind into our mind.” He followed Plotinus in valuing art as a means of “revelation”—with the artist as a kind of prophet or “seer.” The photographers who collect at the Moulton Barn are themselves consciously working within this tradition, and turning themselves into do-it-yourself “artist-seers.” They are the creators, not the slaves of the simulacrum.","PeriodicalId":41165,"journal":{"name":"Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43736135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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”Soldier Dolls, Little Adulteresses, Poor Scapegoats, Betraying Sisters and Perfect Meat”: The Gender of the Early Phase of the Troubles and the Politics of Punishments against Women in Contemporary Irish Poetry “士兵娃娃、小奸妇、可怜的替罪羊、背叛的姐妹和完美的肉”:当代爱尔兰诗歌中早期麻烦阶段的性别和对妇女的惩罚政治

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Text Matters-A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/texmat-2018-0006

Katarzyna Ostalska

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