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Scholasticide, often used interchangeably with the terms educide and epistemicide, [1] [2] [3] refers to the intended mass destruction of education in a specific place. [ 4 ] Educide has been used to describe the mass destruction in the Iraq War (2003–2011) and the Gaza Genocide (2023 – present).
In his 1999 book, Still the New World, American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction, Philip Fisher analyzes the themes of creative destruction at play in literary works of the twentieth century, including the works of such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Henry James, among others ...
Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger; Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism; Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that conceptualises certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self
A queer instinct, indeed, directed to the destruction of its own organic home!'. [43] He wrote moreover that "Our hypothesis is that there are two essentially different classes of instincts: the sexual instincts, understood in the widest sense—Eros, if you prefer that name—and the aggressive instincts, whose aim is destruction". [44]
Confessional writing is often non-fictive and delivered in direct, first-person narration. Confessional writing usually involves the divulging and discussion of 'shameful matters', [25] including personal secrets and controversial perspectives in forms such as autobiography, diary, memoir, and also epistolary narratives.
Morris Dickstein (February 23, 1940 – March 24, 2021) was an American literary scholar, cultural historian, professor, essayist, book critic, and public intellectual. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
The scholarly journal American Literature was first published in 1929. [5] In 1989 the American Literature Association, a coalition of 110 affiliated societies mostly concerned with the work of a particular author (e.g. the Emily Dickinson International Society or the Thoreau Society), was organized. [6]
Matthiessen was an American studies scholar and literary critic at Harvard University [6] and chaired its undergraduate program in history and literature. [7] He wrote and edited landmark works of scholarship on T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the James family (Alice James, Henry James, Henry James Sr., and William James), Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, Henry David ...