Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. www.yorknotes.com › alevel › english-literatureThemes The Frontier The Great Gatsby: Advanced - York Notes

   www.yorknotes.com › alevel › english-literature

   • Cached

   It contains sections on Thomas Jefferson and his ideals, the popularisation of the frontiersman as Western hero, utopian agrarianism and the myth of the New World garden, and the Frontier thesis offered by historian Frederick Jackson Turner.

   • The American Dream

     Themes The American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald exploits the...

   • Vision and Insight

     He can only see the mundane reality, not the ideal which...

   • Codes of Conduct

     This issue of whether it is better to lead a cautious or a...

   • Characterisation

     Characterisation. The novel aims to present the way things...

   • Techniques

     Techniques The narrator. The most important literary...

2. www.yorknotes.com › alevel › english-literatureThemes The Frontier The Great Gatsby: A Level - York Notes

   www.yorknotes.com › alevel › english-literature

   • Cached

   Online study guide for The Great Gatsby: A Level, Characters & Themes The Frontier.

3. academic.oup.com › book › 138413 The Significance of the Frontier in the Middle Ages

   academic.oup.com › book › 1384

   • Cached

   The frontier is a heroic place to take one's stand. On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian half a century dead, whose theories have been savaged and repudiated.

4. library.fiveable.me › nature-and-the-frontierNature and the frontier - (18th and 19th Century Literature ...

   library.fiveable.me › nature-and-the-frontier

   • Cached

   Definition. Nature and the frontier refer to the relationship between the natural environment and the concept of the boundary or edge of civilization, often symbolizing exploration, adventure, and the human struggle against nature.

5. pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com › download › EnglishThe Emigree - Carol Rumens - Poetry - AQA English Literature GCSE

   pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com › download › English

   Brief Summary. The poem is about somebody who had to leave their country as a child to be safe. They are looking back fondly whilst lamenting the discrimination they experience in their new country.

6. www.jstor.org › stable › 41155004The Frontier in American Literature - JSTOR

   www.jstor.org › stable › 41155004

   The commonplace definition of the frontier is that formulated by Frederick Jack-son Turner in a paper of 1893, published in 1894, and republished with scholarly haste in 1920 under the title The Frontier in American History, a work to be regarded as a peer of the tomes of Gibbon, Mommsen, Beard, Toynbee, et al. The American

7. People also ask

   What is a frontier in history?

   • On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian half a century dead, whose theories have been savaged and repudiated. It is common to find Turner absurd, and by extension any multiplication of frontiers wherever descried.

   The Significance of the Frontier in the Middle Ages | Medieval Frontier

   academic.oup.com/book/1384/chapter/140708881

   See all results for this question

   Is the frontier a heroic place to take a stand?

   • The frontier is a heroic place to take one's stand. On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian half a century dead, whose theories have been savaged and repudiated.

   The Significance of the Frontier in the Middle Ages | Medieval Frontier

   academic.oup.com/book/1384/chapter/140708881

   See all results for this question

   What is the theme of the medieval frontier?

   • William Tebrake’s Medieval Frontier: Culture and Ecology in Rijnland takes up the theme of reclamation and human geography in the Rhine delta. Angus MacKay’s Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000–1500 frames the narrative in explicitly frontier terms.

   The Significance of the Frontier in the Middle Ages | Medieval Frontier

   academic.oup.com/book/1384/chapter/140708881

   See all results for this question

   When did the word frontier come out?

   • interchangeably. Naturally the European meaning of the word frontier was used by the early settlers (M. M. Mathews, in A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, 1951, I, 669, cites its occurrence in 1671), but the American concept becomes first widespread and then dominant in the nineteenth century.

   The Frontier in American Literature - JSTOR

   www.jstor.org/stable/41155004

   See all results for this question

   Who was the first writer to deal with the frontier?

   • The first major writer to deal at great length with the frontier was James Feni- more Cooper. It is true that he is not as perceptive or philosophical as Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America (1835) is of lasting influence; he is not as broadly humorous as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, whose Georgia Scenes (1835) tells of

   The Frontier in American Literature - JSTOR

   www.jstor.org/stable/41155004

   See all results for this question

   What is the most significant frontier in America?

   • The most significant frontier is that it lies at the hither edge of free land. Thomas Jefferson, in 1782, and James Fenimore Cooper ten persons per square mile2. continent, and how America modified and developed that line of the most rapid and effective Americanization.

   The Frontier in American Literature - JSTOR

   www.jstor.org/stable/41155004

   See all results for this question

8. www.degruyter.com › document › doiFrontier in American Literature - De Gruyter

   www.degruyter.com › document › doi

   • Cached

   Mar 8, 2015 · Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The ...