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Betwixt and between: Liminality in George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo
The Civil War (1861-65) and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln have been game-changers in the history of America predominantly because of the Emancipation Proclamation that provided freedom to the slaves. George Saunders' debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo extends the scope of the plot through the fictional depiction of Abraham Lincoln's personal and presidential roles. The paper seeks to focus on the in-between state/s of the fictional character of Abraham Lincoln influenced by the settings and situation that produces transitional attributes to the novel. Availing the 'processual framework' of liminality proposed by Victor Turner, the liminal existence of Abraham Lincoln in the novel caused by the demise of his son Willie Lincoln and the savage political situation in America is traced. The findings derived from the analytical interpretation of the text reveal the presence of multiple liminal experiences in the character of Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln : pro wrestler
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike.
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Lincoln in the Bardo: “Uh, NOT a Historical Novel”
While George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) has many of the characteristics of the traditional historical novel—lapse of time, incorporation of historical characters, focus on important world-historical events and conditions—it intriguingly challenges the boundaries of the genre by an unsettling approach to verisimilitude. In addition, its fragmentation and an unusual approach to narrative help to qualify it as a neo-historical novel. The author’s thoughts on historical fiction help to clarify its positioning.
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Abe Lincoln's dream
When a schoolgirl gets separated from her tour of the White House and finds herself in the Lincoln bedroom, she also discovers the ghost of the great man himself.
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JEFFERSONIAN WHITMAN: THE IMPACT OF JEFFERSON ON WHITMAN
As regards the relation between Whitman and U.S. presidency, the critical studies center on the relation between Whitman and Lincoln. The process of Whitman’s commitment to the Democratic Party and his alienation from it, and of becoming the self-anointed inheritor of Jeffersonian republicanism plays a key role in the formation of political and poetical Whitman. Faced with the disunion of the U.S., Whitman had recourse to the ideal of the Founding Fathers. Whitman’s poetry is the mediation between Jeffersonian republicanism and Whitman’s America, and between politics and poetics.
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The Lincoln project
\"Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history-- Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address\"-- Provided by publisher.
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UNFINISHED WORK
Taking issue with recent \"post-critical\" attempts to valorize the aesthetic aspects of literature, the present article suggests that Lloyd Bitzer's concept of the rhetorical situation is a more productive means to approach the question of the ideological and aesthetic dimensions of literature. Through readings of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Nathaniel Hawthorne's prefatory remarks to Our Old Home, it suggests how the concept of the rhetorical situation may help us bring out the interdependence of the rhetorical and the aesthetic dimensions of the texts in question. Rather than think of text and context as distinct, we had better think of them as joint aspects of a literary situation comprising both. Both texts deal explicitly with the Civil War, but while Lincoln's address turns the conflict into a model for future-directed hope, Hawthorne's remarks turn the war into a problem of the past that refuses to go away.
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Abe Lincoln at last !
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
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Engaging Middle-Grades Readers Through Graphic Nonfiction Trade Books: A Critical Perspective on Selected Titles Recommended for Classroom Use
Other titles offered a blended-genre approach that could be called informational science/animal fantasy- books that include factual information told through the fictional story of an anthropomorphized animal (e.g., biology professor Jay Hosler's [2000] Clan Apis, which offers engaging information about bee anatomy and behavior as well as evolution and ecology, told in an emotionally moving account by a bee named Nyuki, or Hosler's [2003] The Sandwalk Adventures with a fictional Charles Darwin debating creation myths and natural selection with mites that live in his eyebrows). Included were four of the 11 Capstone Press series Disasters in History titles, along with C.M. Butzer's (2009) trade book Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel and five titles in Larry Gonick's Cartoon History trade book series.
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