... to American studies an intriguing thesis about the role of the pastoral topos in American culture and literature - although already following the footsteps of Henry Nash Smith and his analysis of the "Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth" (first published in 1950, walking in a slightly different direction). In chapter 1, Marx establishes his ... a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary expressions ra...

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... to American studies an intriguing thesis about the role of the pastoral topos in American culture and literature - although already following the footsteps of Henry Nash Smith and his analysis of the "Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth" (first published in 1950, walking in a slightly different direction). In chapter 1, Marx establishes his ... a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary expressions ra...

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... children have a polymorphous sexuality, their sexual desire is indiscriminate and varied, "My surprising discoveries as to the sexuality of children were made in the first instance through the analysis of adults. But later (from about 1908 onwards) it became possible to confirm them fully and in every detail by direct observations upon children. Indeed, it is so ... object-choice in everyone. If I have described children as "polymorphous perverse", I was only using a terminology that was generally current; no moral judgment was implied by the phrase. Psycho-analysis has no concern whate...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... children have a polymorphous sexuality, their sexual desire is indiscriminate and varied, "My surprising discoveries as to the sexuality of children were made in the first instance through the analysis of adults. But later (from about 1908 onwards) it became possible to confirm them fully and in every detail by direct observations upon children. Indeed, it is so ... object-choice in everyone. If I have described children as "polymorphous perverse", I was only using a terminology that was generally current; no moral judgment was implied by the phrase. Psycho-analysis has no concern whate...

• Word Count: 1043
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... children have a polymorphous sexuality, their sexual desire is indiscriminate and varied, "My surprising discoveries as to the sexuality of children were made in the first instance through the analysis of adults. But later (from about 1908 onwards) it became possible to confirm them fully and in every detail by direct observations upon children. Indeed, it is so ... object-choice in everyone. If I have described children as "polymorphous perverse", I was only using a terminology that was generally current; no moral judgment was implied by the phrase. Psycho-analysis has no concern whate...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature. These conditions -leisure time, privacy, and financial independence- are particularly relevant to understanding the situation of women in the literary tradition because women, historically, have been uniformly deprived of those basic prerequisites. The journey through Women and Fiction is a complicated one in part, because the subject is open to various ... novelists, women's common social role seems to have been the reason. Functioning at the heart of the family, she observes, women's training inevitably include...

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