"Created Space": Mapping America as poem in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End and Susan Howe's Secret History of the Dividing Line

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The ways in which Gary Synder's Mountains and Rivers Without End clarifies the extent to which America has struggled to articulate itself as a discursive terrain is examined. It also argues that Snyder's sequence testifies to a pressure at the hearth of American ideology, namely the need to read the land and to interpret it as a landscape.

Works, Poets, Synder, Gary

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Hems to hairdos: cultural discourse and Philadelphia Catholic high schools in the 1920s, a case study

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The adoption of school uniforms at Philadelphia Catholic high schools in the 1920s is discussed, with a focus on Catholic culture and group identity. The uniforms promoted standards of dress and behavior, represented Catholic schoolgirls as symbols of lost American traditional values, and suggested an identity of desexualized childhood.

Public affairs, Pennsylvania, Social aspects, History, Dress codes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Uniforms, Catholic schools

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Foreigners within and innocents abroad: discourse of the self in the internalization of American studies

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Foreign perspectives on American culture are considered to be valuable for their implicit observation of what America lacks. The importance of a critical interface between the domestic and foreign perspectives is highlighted.

Aliens, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Americans

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