scholarly journals Unknown Harper Lee

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-97
Author(s):  
Denis Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Harper Lee

Posthumous baggage. Harper Lee’s letters

2021 ◽  
pp. 194-214
Author(s):  
D. V. Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Personal Life ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
To Kill A Mockingbird ◽  
Detailed List ◽  
Harper Lee ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

The article is devoted to the epistolary legacy of Nelle Harper Lee, the author of the American cult classic To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). The researcher examines a collection of Nelle’s letters written from 1956 to 2009, provides a detailed list of sources and makes suggestions about the potential new discoveries that could shed light on the life of ‘America’s most reclusive author.’ This short study of ‘posthumous baggage,’ as Lee referred to her private correspondence, offers an insight into the interests of the author, who insisted on keeping her personal life to herself. The letters included in the study concern the writer’s relationship to her father Amasa Coleman Lee, on whom she based the character of Atticus Finch, her attitude to her own biography published by Charles Shields, and personal anxieties of her final years. The author also details Lee’s opinions of literature, from the 19th-c. classics to contemporary authors, and shows how much she valued communication with her numerous fans.

scholarly journals STATE OF EXCEPTION THROUGH RASISME IN GO SET A WATCHMAN IN AGAMBEN’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Damay Rahmawati ◽  
Ramadhani Ardianto Karsa Sunaryono ◽  
Mira Utami
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black People ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Harper Lee

This study aims to see racism in the novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee as state of exception; a political philosophy of Agamben. Agamben's idea of ​​state of exception is used in this study as the theoretical framework. This research specifically reveals how racism becomes part of state of exception in American society around 1960s when the novel was written. The analysis focuses on issues of racism in American society as depicted in the novel. The issue of racism is taken with the aim of analyzing state of exception in USA, in dealing with racial discrimination. After analyzing the issues of racism and state of exception in the novel, this study reveals that racism in American society is politically structured. The finding of this study is the discrimination experienced by lower class citizens who are dominated by black people, as the impact of state of exception which affects their citizenship rights.

scholarly journals Book Review: Reading Harper Lee: Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Arianne A. Hartsell-Gundy
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
To Kill A Mockingbird ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Harper Lee

Reading Harper Lee: Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman by Claudia Durst Johnson is meant to assist students studying the work of Harper Lee by providing context for her life and work and examining key topics such as race, class, and gender. It functions in some ways as an update to Johnson’s Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents (Greenwood, 1994) since it includes analysis of Go Set A Watchman. Rather than being a replacement for the 1994 reference work, it functions as a great complement for a student studying Harper Lee. While Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird provides numerous primary documents to help a student understand the historical context, Reading Harper Lee provides a more concise analysis of themes, which potentially makes it more accessible to a student new to literary criticism.

scholarly journals Extra-Linguistic Features of the Southern Dialect of American English in the Novel of Harper Lee “Go Set a Watchman”

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Anatolevna Deputatova ◽  
Diana Rustamovna Sabirova ◽  
Liya Faridovna Shangaraeva ◽  
Anel Nailevna Sabirova ◽  
Olga Valerevna Akimova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
English Language ◽  
American English ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Auxiliary Verbs ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Harper Lee

Abstract The article discusses the multi-level linguistic features of the variations of the American English in the United States under the influence of territorial isolation, which forms the structure and functional use of the language. In the USA an extensive material on regional types of pronunciation has been collected in the fields of sociolinguistics and dialectology while the variability of English speech on the territory of the United States of America remains practically unexplored. In this article the extra-linguistic features, namely, territorial peculiarities of the southern dialect are considered in combination with the features of the dialect of the South Mountain region and the dialect of South Coast area on the example of the novel “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee. Phonetic, grammatical and lexical peculiarities of the southern dialect have been studied. The examples from the book enabled us to see the specific nature of the dialect of the Southern United States. We have also compared phonetic, lexical and grammatical features of this dialect with the literary English language and saw huge differences. Having analyzed the grammatical peculiarities of the southern dialect, for example, we conclude that the most common grammatical error of the local population is the incorrect formation of general questions, the use of the tense forms of the verbs and the absence of auxiliary verbs in the sentences.

Code switching and style shifting as markers of liminality in literature

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Hess
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
The State ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Central Core ◽  
John Steinbeck ◽  
Style Shifting ◽  
Harper Lee ◽  
Artistic Function

This article focuses on the artistic function of code switching in literature. In particular, it showcases code switching as a marker of liminality - the state of creative in-betweenness which serves as an underpinning for unconscious literary designs. Particular examples of liminality in literature are illustrated through the works of John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and Charlotte Bronte. The states of transition that form the central core of the works analysed are bolstered through the use of code switching, which.underscores the love/hate alliances, gender placements, and cultural dissonances of literary craft.

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