... a frame of reference, when reading Pessoa's poetry and prose, falls short. His work, despite the fact that he "single-handedly brought modernism to Portugal,"" is more closely aligned with a postmodern sensibility. According to Madun Sarup, modernism and postmodernism share many elements. Postmodernism is literally what comes after, or post-, modernism, and is grounded in a similar tradition. The elements of postmodernism that ... in the country."" Although the heteronyms shared the same time space as Pessoa (in other words, they were his peers), he was able to dip into their pasts with...

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... , will provide certain details of life in early America missing in the writings of her Puritan brothers."" (Rosenfeld 1970, 79). In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. Some Critics make a range of claims about the role of Bradstreet ... remains a question- (220). Eberwein reminds us that Bradstreet was a skilled poet addressing a shrewd audience, though she says little about what difference gender makes. Yet even as Brad...

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... , will provide certain details of life in early America missing in the writings of her Puritan brothers."" (Rosenfeld 1970, 79). In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. Some Critics make a range of claims about the role of Bradstreet ... remains a question- (220). Eberwein reminds us that Bradstreet was a skilled poet addressing a shrewd audience, though she says little about what difference gender makes. Yet even as Brad...

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... , and without proposing the dead person as an example of tragic crisis in the human spirit or in human history. The American elegiac sensibility--in Cooper, Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain, James, and others--is most strongly engaged by the sense of lost modes of innocence, lost possibilities of brotherhood, magnanimity, and freedom, lost sources of moral spontaneity and spiritual refreshment. The tone ... ...

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