Ivan Turgenev, in his 19th century novel Fathers and Sons, uses many character pairings to provide insights into the many thematic concerns of the novel. Turgenev uses many literary techniques masterfully to help portray his own beliefs and to show the conflict that was occurring in 19th century Russia. Turgenev's novel is meant to portray his political concerns, such as his liberalistic ideals and his attitude toward Nihilism and the Revolution. Turgenev also uses many literary aspects in conjunction with his character pairings, such as the conflict between generations. Perhaps one of the mos...

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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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... 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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... network of relationships connecting the characters-(4). Evans' review of the beggar's emblematic significance to the story's characters and themes gives a more in-depth revelation of Emma's tragedy. Through her analysis of the biographical and historical data of France during the 18th century, diagnosis of the beggar's illness, and illumination of his relation to Flaubert's linguistic project, Evans presents a unique ... of reading romantic novels since Emma's image of romance developed from the books she read at the convent school. These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Ro...

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... network of relationships connecting the characters-(4). Evans' review of the beggar's emblematic significance to the story's characters and themes gives a more in-depth revelation of Emma's tragedy. Through her analysis of the biographical and historical data of France during the 18th century, diagnosis of the beggar's illness, and illumination of his relation to Flaubert's linguistic project, Evans presents a unique ... of reading romantic novels since Emma's image of romance developed from the books she read at the convent school. These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Ro...

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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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... 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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... 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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