Lydia R Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lydia R Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lydia R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Problem of Trans-Figuration
Two-Spirit and specific indigenous non-binary and nonmonogamous or heterosexual identities, kinships, and community structures are fully distinct from EuroWestern LGBTQ+ identities - and to blur the lines is to reenact histories of colonial erasure, no matter how well-meaning the intent. In this article, Cooper argues that Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) offers a helpful model for navigating the needs of…
Cormac McCarthy's The Road As Apocalyptic Grail Narrative
Cormac McCarthy's The Road As Apocalyptic Grail Narrative Lydia R. Cooper I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing. -Cormac McCarthy, Whales and Men The Holy Grail is a standard symbol in the English language for an object of search far-off, mysterious, out of reach. -Dhira B. Mahoney, The Grail: A Casebook Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), with…
The Critique of Violent Atonement in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and David Treuer's The Hiawatha
The Critique of Violent Atonement in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and David Treuer's The Hiawatha Lydia R. Cooper (bio) John Smith, the disturbed, violent Native American protagonist of Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer (1996), decides that his pain and the suffering of all Indigenous people will end only when "one white man ... [dies] for all the lies that had been told to Indians" (132). John's belief that his and his people's salvation will be …
Human Voices
Many critics writing on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee claim that the novel eludes easy interpretation because of its complex ironic twists, its juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy, and its penchant for pointing the sword of satire both at the pre-industrial Arthurian world and at Hank's own industrialized America. This confusion has led some critics to throw up their hands and write off the novel as one of Twain's artistic “failures.” However…
Cormac McCarthy's The Road As Apocalyptic Grail Narrative
Cormac McCarthy's The Road As Apocalyptic Grail Narrative Lydia R. Cooper I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing. -Cormac McCarthy, Whales and Men The Holy Grail is a standard symbol in the English language for an object of search far-off, mysterious, out of reach. -Dhira B. Mahoney, The Grail: A Casebook Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), with…
Human Voices
Many critics writing on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee claim that the novel eludes easy interpretation because of its complex ironic twists, its juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy, and its penchant for pointing the sword of satire both at the pre-industrial Arthurian world and at Hank's own industrialized America. This confusion has led some critics to throw up their hands and write off the novel as one of Twain's artistic “failures.” However…
The Critique of Violent Atonement in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and David Treuer's The Hiawatha
The Critique of Violent Atonement in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and David Treuer's The Hiawatha Lydia R. Cooper (bio) John Smith, the disturbed, violent Native American protagonist of Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer (1996), decides that his pain and the suffering of all Indigenous people will end only when "one white man ... [dies] for all the lies that had been told to Indians" (132). John's belief that his and his people's salvation will be …
Cormac McCarthy's The Road As Apocalyptic Grail Narrative
Cormac McCarthy's The Road As Apocalyptic Grail Narrative Lydia R. Cooper I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing. -Cormac McCarthy, Whales and Men The Holy Grail is a standard symbol in the English language for an object of search far-off, mysterious, out of reach. -Dhira B. Mahoney, The Grail: A Casebook Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), with…
The Problem of Trans-Figuration
Two-Spirit and specific indigenous non-binary and nonmonogamous or heterosexual identities, kinships, and community structures are fully distinct from EuroWestern LGBTQ+ identities - and to blur the lines is to reenact histories of colonial erasure, no matter how well-meaning the intent. In this article, Cooper argues that Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) offers a helpful model for navigating the needs of…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)