... of some of the situations in which verses were supposedly extemporised (e.g. in the thick of battle or on the point of death) implies that saga accounts of the genesis of verses are not to be taken at face value. Sometimes, moreover, there are stylistic or metrical features which appear to postdate the events of the saga and which suggest composition at some ... ? Although difficulties of interpretation abound, it is possible to over-emphasise the supposed impartiality of saga-authors. Authorial sympathies are manifested through introductory portraits, the selection and handling of plot ...

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... a renewed sense of patriotism and confidence in their nation. Schivelbusch uses the example of neoclassical monumentalism to underscore how the same stylistic, formal, and technological developments are used to serve ostensibly different political systems. This can be equated with the manner in which ... New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for their political beliefs and widened the influence of underprivileged elements in society. He also notes that the historical experience (especially after Word War I and the Treaty of Versailles), culture, a...

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... " a "direct contradiction" of the claims of "poststructuralist" theories reducing the world to language. "Ecocriticism responds," Newman argues, "by insisting on the independent reality of the nonlinguistic material world." However, in order to locate "the nonlinguistic material world" in Thoreau's writing, Newman draws upon ... metaphor will hold, and it will give the imagination keen pleasure." (18) In "Poetry and Imagination," the aging Emerson (with editorial help from his literary executor James Elliot Cabot) seems merely to have mined the same argument he made for the emblematic nat...

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