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    Masculine Discrepancies on the Frontier: James Fenimore Cooper's Ideal American Man Within the genre of the frontier novel, great consideration is given to early American ideals of masculinity. According to Aiping Zhang, in his article "The Negotiation of Manhood: James Fenimore Cooper's Ideology of Manhood in The Last of the Mohicans," James Fenimore Cooper was exceedingly interested in developing a new American definition of the ideal man. Zhang writes that "masculinity was always one of the

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    Michael Mann's Movie Version of James Fenimore Cooper's “Last of the Mohicans” The 1992 movie version of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" was directed by Michael Mann and starred Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Steven Waddington, Russell Means and Eric Schweig. As an epic about human conflict, the movie addresses all the necessary elements of social, political and spiritual concern required for such a production; however, the grandiose spectacle of Hollywood film making

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    The American writer Mark Twain wrote “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” in response and his own opinion about Cooper’s novels. In this essay, Twain criticizes the major mistakes and “rules” which Cooper violates in writing his series, The Leatherstocking Tales. A large portion of the rules which Twain writes about can be found in Cooper’s novel, The Last of the Mohicans. His self-made rules are very encompassing of Cooper's literary flaws which can easily be pointed out through his novel. With

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    American realism movement found the romantic style of writing objectionable. Twain felt as if “American literature should reflect American life and values and should not be based on a European model of writing”. Even though throughout his essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” Twain was using humor to tease Coopers writing, he used this essay to detail what he hoped to accomplish with his writing. Twain and other realistic writers believed that the stories that were written should mimic everyday

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    A Critique of “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses” Twain, Mark. “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.” Learning Resources Folder. Summary of Major Ideas Twain wonders if it is possible to take Fenimore Cooper America’s first major novelist seriously. Cooper committed 114 offenses against literary art in Deerslayer. Nineteen rules govern literary art in domain of romantic fiction, but some say there are twent-two rules. two. In "Deerslayer," Cooper violated eighteen rules. The novel Deerslayer is

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    Steven Menkin Professor Jesse Doiron ENGL 2326.02 September 16 2015 James Fenimore Cooper: The Father of Naval Novels James Fenimore Cooper was born September 15, 1789 in New Jersey. During The Era of National Expansion (online-literature.com), The Spy, his first novel, led him to continue publication of historical romance novels. Published in 1821, his novel credited to the success of his work. The Spy inspired others to inherit an understanding of patriotism. Cooper inspired many novelists, philosophers

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    The story in James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans” begins during The French and Indian War. Montcalm, has allied himself with many Indian tribes native to America. Montcalm reminds me of myself and my friends because I am this little light skinned girl in the middle of an indian reservation. The British General has Magua an indian scout translate information to him about the attacks that are going to be happening this is like every time a guy texts me I have a friend translate what a

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    Hemingway stated that Mark Twain had laid the foundation for modern American writers who strive to create works of art through literature. Twain directly refers to how a work of literature should constitute art in his essay “The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper” where he criticizes Deerslayer for not reaching the requirements of literary art that Twain describes. He stresses the idea that everything in the literary work should “accomplish something and arrive somewhere”, have correct and definite

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    In the book The Last of The Mohicans written by James Fenimore Cooper, the characters in the book are all affected by the frontier. It is clear in the writing that while the frontier has only a minimal affect on certain characters, it has a maximal affect on others. For Europeans, the frontier was practically uncharted territory, the land was not controlled by a government nor was it divided up into parcels. The wilds of the frontier seem to inspire desires, such as Uncas’s and Cora’s desire for

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    In the book ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ by James Fenimore Cooper, the father-son relationship is much different than the relationship that Cora and Alice have with their father. Even though the book does not demonstrate signs of love and affection, the bond is very strong between the father and son. Uncas and Chingachgook share the same traditional and spiritual values from their heritage. Cora and Alice love their father very much and demonstrates this by endangering themselves in the time of war

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